Thursday, February 12, 2015 | news
LDF applauded today’s unanimous vote by the House of Representatives to award the Congressional Gold Medal to the foot soldiers who participated in the Selma to Montgomery marches. The bill seeks to recognize all those who participated in Bloody Sunday, Turnaround Tuesday or the final Selma to Montgomery March. Although hundreds of protestors from around […]
Friday, March 14, 2014 | news
This week the United States Congress introduced critically important new legislation, the Fair Employment Protection Act. The measure, introduced by Senators Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) and Tom Harkin (D-IA) in the Senate, and Representatives George Miller (D-CA) and Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) in the House of Representatives, seeks to restore workplace protections against unlawful harassment that were […]
Tuesday, February 15, 2011 | news
(Washington, DC) — The NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) applauds the U.S. Senate’s vote this afternoon to confirm James E. Graves, Jr. to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. The Fifth Circuit is the federal appellate court for Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas. James Graves is the first African-American judge […]
Friday, February 28, 2014 | news
The NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) congratulated Judge Andre Davis of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit as he steps down from active service today. Judge Davis is the first and only African American to represent Maryland on the Fourth Circuit, which includes Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, and […]
Thursday, May 24, 2018 | news
Related Case or Issue: Policing Reform Campaign The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) today appealed the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office’s (NYDA) failure to respond to a Freedom of Information Law (FOIL) request for materials related to New Yorkers’ inclusion in NYDA’s gang database(s). FOIL requires New York City agencies to respond to a records request […]
Thursday, April 13, 2023 | news
Today, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF), along with co-counsel Shania King, filed an appellate brief in Gilmore v. Milton, a case before the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. The case concerns an invasive and retaliatory strip search of Clarissa Gilmore by correctional officers during her visit to a Georgia state prison. […]
Monday, August 7, 2017 | news
Read a PDF of our statement here. The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) today appealed to the 11th Circuit a district court’s April ruling that allowed the predominately-white city of Gardendale, Alabama to secede from the more racially diverse Jefferson County school system, despite finding that the secession would harm the county […]
Wednesday, November 26, 2025 | news
Today, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF), Tyler Bailey of Bailey Law Firm, LLC , and WilmerHale LLP filed an appeal in a federal civil rights lawsuit challenging a discriminatory law that censors the teaching of certain subjects related to racial inequity and Black history and culture in South Carolina public schools. In September, the federal district court dismissed the lawsuit, which […]
Monday, May 1, 2023 | news
May 1, 2023 – Today, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF) announced its third 10-person cohort of the Marshall-Motley Scholars Program (MMSP). Launched in January 2021, LDF’s groundbreaking pipeline program will endow the South with the next generation of civil rights lawyers trained to provide legal advocacy of unparalleled excellence in the pursuit of racial justice. […]
Wednesday, January 7, 2026 | news
Today, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF) announced a series of strategic promotions within its Department of Litigation as the organization fights to protect and expand civil rights amid unprecedented federal retrenchment. This month, the following promotions will go into effect: Amia Trigg has been promoted to Deputy Director of Litigation, focusing on criminal legal issues. […]
