Saturday, May 17, 2014 | news
NAACP LDF marked the 60thanniversary of Brown v. Board of Education with a special luncheon at the National Press Club. The event, which celebrated the 60thanniversary of what is today acknowledged as one of the greatest Supreme Court decisions of the 20th century, featured remarks by the Honorable Eric H. Holder, Jr., Attorney General of the United States, and was emceed by […]
Thursday, June 19, 2025 | news
Today, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF) recognizes Juneteenth. On June 19, 1865, Union troops arrived in Galveston, Texas, over two years after President Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, to deliver the news to over 250,000 enslaved people that they were now free from chattel slavery. The resulting celebration saw countless Black communities come together to […]
Wednesday, October 7, 2020 | news
Today, several NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) clients testified before the Philadelphia City Council’s Public Safety Committee regarding their experiences with excessive and unwarranted militaristic force from Philadelphia Police Department (PPD) police officers on May 31, 2020. On that day, amid nationwide protests against police abuses against Black people, the PPD repeatedly […]
Tuesday, August 27, 2013 | news
Corpus Christi, Texas—The NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund (LDF) and its co-counsel law firm Wilmer, Cutler, Pickering, Hale and Dorr LLP (WilmerHale) filed a motion to join the U.S. Department of Justice’s lawsuit as plaintiff-intervenors against Texas’s racially discriminatory photo ID law, Senate Bill 14. The motion was filed on behalf of the Texas […]
Monday, December 11, 2017 | news
The Senate election in Alabama on Tuesday is not just about the choice between Doug Jones and Roy Moore. It’s also about a voter suppression campaign that may well sway the result of a close race. In 2011, Alabama lawmakers passed a photo ID law, ostensibly to combat voter fraud. But “voter impersonation” at polling places […]
Monday, December 11, 2017 | news
The Senate election in Alabama on Tuesday is not just about the choice between Doug Jones and Roy Moore. It’s also about a voter suppression campaign that may well sway the result of a close race. In 2011, Alabama lawmakers passed a photo ID law, ostensibly to combat voter fraud. But “voter impersonation” at polling places […]
Monday, September 15, 2014 | news
LDF’s client, Imani Clark, a student at Prarie View A&AM University was featured in this New York Times article about the Texas Photo ID case in which LDF is challenging SB14, the state’s discriminatory photo ID law which a federal judge described as the most discriminatory in the country: One of those who may […]
Friday, August 7, 2015 | news
50 years on, does the Voting Rights Act offer adequate protection? Fifty years ago, the Voting Rights Act outlawed discriminatory practices used to stop Americans from casting a ballot. President Obama marked the occasion with civil rights leaders, cautioning that those rights are still at risk. Gwen Ifill talks to Imani Clark, a student at […]
Thursday, January 7, 2016 | news
NAACP LDF celebrates the 55th anniversary of the desegregation of the University of Georgia (UGA) and the courage of award-winning journalist Charlayne Hunter-Gault, who was one of the first two African-American students to integrate UGA. In 1959, Hunter-Gault applied to UGA, but was informed that the dormitories were filled to capacity and could not admit […]
Monday, September 11, 2017 | news
A Decades-Old Conviction Cost Me My Post Retirement Job I MADE A MISTAKE more than 40 years ago. When I was about 18 years old, I got into a fight with another young woman. After the fight, her father pressed charges against me and I was ultimately convicted of assault at 19 and sentenced to five […]
