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LDF Declares Victory in Successfully Advocating for the County Commission in Fayette County, Tennessee to Draw a New, Fairer Electoral Map

Read a PDF of our statement here. Today, after succeeding in convincing county lawmakers to pass a new map that provides fair representation to Black voters, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF) declared victory and voluntarily dismissed its lawsuit challenging the illegal and unconstitutional 2021 map of the Fayette County, Tennessee Board of County Commissioners. LDF […]

LDF Criticizes Recent Legal Claims About Thomas Jefferson High School Admissions Policy That Were Rejected by Federal Appeals Court

Today, the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced that it will open a Title VI investigation into the admissions process for the Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology (TJ). This announcement came one day after Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares publicly issued findings by his office that the policy […]

LDF Criminal Justice Project “Know Your Rights Academy” Coming Soon

The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (LDF) has developed a Know Your Rights Academy to address unlawful, stops, frisks, searches, and arrests by NYPD officers conducting vertical patrols and enforcing criminal trespass in NYCHA buildings. The Academy will train a cadre of Manhattan NYCHA residents in the fundamentals of organizing and facilitation of Know […]

LDF Continues to Challenge Alabama’s Racially Discriminatory Photo ID Law in Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals

LDF Continues to Challenge Alabama’s Racially Discriminatory Photo ID Law in Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) will appear before a federal appeals court on Friday to challenge Alabama’s voter photo ID law and ask the court to send this case back to the District Court for […]

LDF Continues Leading Charge to Remove Paladino from Buffalo School Board

Read a PDF of our statement here.  NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Continues Leading Charge to Remove Paladino from Buffalo School Board In the latest chapter in its effort to remove Carl Paladino from the Board of Education of the Buffalo School District, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund has filed a legal […]

LDF Continues Fight to Defend Voting Rights Act

The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Presents Oral Argument in Defense of Section 5 of the VRA (New York, NY) – Today the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) presented oral argument in Shelby County, Alabama v. Holder, a case challenging a core provision of the Voting Rights Act known as Section […]

LDF Continues Discussion about Events Taking Place in the Trial’s Aftermath on NewsNation

LDF President and Director-Counsel Sherrilyn Ifill discusses with Tamron Hall the events taking place in the trial’s aftermath.

LDF Connect – November 2016

LDF Congratulates Wes Moore on Inauguration as Maryland’s First Black Governor

Today, Wes Moore, former combat veteran, successful author, and CEO of the Robin Hood Foundation, will be sworn in as the 63rd governor of Maryland. Moore becomes the state’s first Black governor and the nation’s third, following in the footsteps of former Virginia governor L. Douglas Wilder and former LDF attorney and Massachusetts governor Deval […]

LDF Congratulates the 117th Congress and Congressional Black Caucus

Today, Sherrilyn Ifill, President and Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), issued the following statement on the swearing in of the 117th Congress and the Congressional Black Caucus. “LDF congratulates the members of the 117th Congress and Speaker Pelosi on her fourth term as House Speaker. We also extend our […]