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LDF Deeply Mourns the Passing of Former Associate Director-Counsel and Former EEOC Chair Jacqueline Berrien

Updated on Nov. 13, 2015 with more obituaries and rememberances. The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) deeply mourns the passing of former Associate Director-Counsel, Jacqueline A. Berrien, who succumbed to a brief but intense battle with cancer early this morning. Berrien was an extraordinary and highly accomplished civil rights lawyer, the 14th […]

LDF Deeply Mourns the Passing of Board Member William Scheide, LDF’s Greatest Individual Benefactor

Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. deeply mourns the loss of William Scheide, mentor and friend to successive Director-Counsels, longstanding member of the board, and the organization’s most generous individual donor. Many who knew William Scheide knew that social justice was not merely a cause but a way of life. The impact […]

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