Monday, May 4, 2015 | news
Obama’s Difficult Legacy on Race “There is more that the administration can be doing to ensure proper training, supervision, and transparency at the local level through the funding structure and civil rights compliance structure that is already in place,” said Leslie Proll, Director of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund Washington office. Read the full article […]
Monday, September 17, 2018 | news
The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) today filed an amicus brief in the Supreme Court arguing that a key statute designed to shield consumers from abusive debt collection practices applies to all homeowners facing foreclosure. The brief was filed in Obduskey v. McCarthy, where the Court is weighing whether the protections of […]
Thursday, June 2, 2011 | news
WASHINGTON — Under the Obama administration, the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division has reversed a pattern of systematically hiring conservative lawyers with little experience in civil rights, the practice that caused a scandal over politicization during the Bush administration. Instead, newly disclosed documents show, the lawyers hired over the past two years at the division […]
Friday, January 29, 2016 | news
Sherrilyn Ifill and the NAACP Legal Defense Educational Fund Inc. (LDF) Driving Diversity and Democracy in the Legal Profession When asked about the mission of the NAACP LDF, Sherrilyn Ifill, [President and Director-Counsel] of the nation’s premier civil rights law organization, stated, “I am fond of saying that civil rights work is the work of […]
Thursday, June 4, 2015 | news
What Obama’s New Military-Equipment Rules Mean for K-12 School Police “I definitely think it’s a step in the right direction,” Janel George, senior education policy council at the NAACP Legal Defense Fund tells Rolling Stone. “It does show that the administration, particularly the local law enforcement equipment working group, heard our concerns.” Read the […]
Wednesday, May 6, 2015 | news
Honor Selma by Restoring the Voting Rights Act “Senate Judiciary Chairman Charles E. Grassley, R-Iowa, was simply wrong when he recently suggested the Voting Rights Act should not be updated because “more minorities are already voting.” His statement asserts a novel and misguided test for determining the necessity of the Voting Rights Act. It also […]
Thursday, October 23, 2025 | news
Groups Call for City Council Passage of Intro. 798 to Eliminate the Database The G.A.N.G.S. Coalition — alongside advocates, legal experts, elected officials, and directly impacted New Yorkers — held a press conference outside New York City Police Department (NYPD) headquarters to call for City Council passage of Intro. 798, which would abolish the Department’s […]
Monday, October 6, 2014 | news
In an op-ed in Alabama.com, Leslie Proll, the director of LDF’s Washington D.C. offices urges Alabama to fill vanancies on the state’s federal bench noting that the state has never had a federal appellate judge of color. “It is time to desegregate Alabama’s delegation on the federal appellate bench,” Proll writes. Vacancies must be filled […]
Monday, March 23, 2015 | news
A Test of Free Speech and Bias, Served on a Plate From Texas Sherrilyn Ifill, president of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, said the Confederate flag has only one fundamental meaning. “It’s a powerful symbol of the oppression of black people,” she said in an interview. Read the full article here
Tuesday, December 9, 2014 | news
LDF Associate Director-Counsel Janai Nelson highlights the fine line Obama must walk in order to be the President for all Americans while making his mark on race relations in the aftermath of Brown and Garner deaths: “We are really on a precipice of either going in the right direction or entrenching a very perilous racial […]
