Monday, April 24, 2017 | news
Disputing the Details for the NYPD Body Cameras Jin Hee Lee, deputy director of litigation of the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc. and co-lead counsel in Davis, et al. v. City of New York and New York City Housing Authority, and Joo-Hyun Kang, director of Communities United for Police Reform, talk about some of […]
Friday, March 30, 2018 | staff
As Director of Strategic Initiatives at the Legal Defense Fund (LDF), Jin Hee Lee leads the Strategic Initiatives Department, which houses specific projects and campaigns integrating LDF’s multi-faceted advocacy tools—including litigation, policy, organizing, communications, research, and public education—to maximize the impact of affirmative, strategic, and community-centered advocacy that secures the full citizenship and equality of […]
Monday, February 2, 2026 | case-issue
Case: Economic Justice Jiltonilro v. City of Piedmont Filed: Feb 2. 2026 On Feb. 2, 2026, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF) joined Seyfarth Shaw LLP in filing a state lawsuit in Alameda County, California on behalf of a descendant of Sidney and Iréne Dearing, the first Black homeowners in the city of Piedmont in Alameda in 1924. The Dearings were dispossessed of their […]
Friday, March 30, 2018 | staff
Jennifer A. Holmes joined the NAACP Legal Defense Fund (LDF) in 2017 and now serves as Deputy Director of Litigation. She supervises litigation involving economic justice, including cases combating discrimination in housing, employment, lending, and access to water to help Black communities achieve economic security and opportunity. Jennifer helped develop Pickett v. Cleveland, a lawsuit […]
Wednesday, January 30, 2019 | page
Wednesday, March 9, 2011 | news
Last July, Governor Paterson signed into law a bill that did away with the NYPD’s stop-and-frisk database. The bill, sponsored by Assemblyman Hakeem Jeffries and State Senator Eric Adams, made it illegal for police officers to add the names and addresses of every person they stop, question and frisk to an electronic database used in […]
Wednesday, September 8, 2010 | news
Jefferson Thomas, one of the Little Rock Nine, died Sunday. In 1957 he and eight other black teenagers in Little Rock, Arkansas, risked their lives to go to the high school they were entitled to in order to prove the greatest declaration of American idealism had meaning. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that […]
Friday, January 6, 2017 | news
Jeff Sessions is applying to be the nation’s chief law enforcement officer. The People’s Lawyer. If he could not even fill out the government job application for the post he seeks accurately and truthfully, how can he be expected to guide the Department of Justice with competence and integrity at a time when our country […]
Monday, December 8, 2025 | staff
Jason Bailey is Senior Counsel at the NAACP Legal Defense Fund (“LDF”), where he litigates civil rights cases across the country involving housing discrimination, employment discrimination, environmental justice, education, and the First Amendment. His work includes serving as counsel in challenges to discriminatory water lien and utility shutoff practices under the Fair Housing Act, including […]
Monday, August 26, 2019 | staff
Jared Evans currently serves as Senior Policy Counsel with the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), the nation’s oldest and foremost civil rights law organization. Jared’s practice area at LDF is focused on political participation, with a particular emphasis on voting rights and redistricting, and has served as LDF’s census coordinator since 2019. […]
