Wednesday, May 11, 2011 | news
Everyone knows that the Road Home Program, though well intentioned, has been deeply flawed since its inception. In 2007, working with the National Fair Housing Alliance, my staff at the Greater New Orleans Fair Housing Center and I set out to right at least one of the major program flaws. The Road Home Program was […]
Thursday, October 6, 2011 | news
The Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth 1922 – 2011 Last year the Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth was one of `eleven civil rights pioneers to sign a friend-of-the-court brief written by attorneys of the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund and co-counsel in Hithon v. Tyson Foods, Inc. That brief challenged a ruling of the 11th U.S. Circuit Court […]
Sunday, July 21, 2024 | news
Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee speaks on LDF’s panel on the state of voting rights at the 2023 Selma Jubilee Weekend in Selma, Alabama on Mar. 4, 2023. (Photo by Melissa Golden for LDF) LDF Tribute to Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee The Legal Defense Fund (LDF) mourns the loss of Sheila Jackson Lee, U.S. Representative for […]
Thursday, October 6, 2011 | news
Derrick Bell 1930 – 2011 We remained inspired by his ethical ambition.
Sunday, September 16, 2018 | news
New York, New York – In light of recent sexual assault allegations against Supreme Court Nominee Brett Kavanaugh, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. President and Director-Counsel Sherrilyn Ifill renewed LDF’s call for the Senate Judiciary Committee to postpone its upcoming confirmation vote in the following statement: “It is critical that the Senate Judiciary Committee take seriously […]
Tuesday, October 30, 2018 | news
October 30, 2018 | The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) joined five other civil rights racial justice organizations today in sending a letter to Attorney General Jeff Sessions demanding that he develop a comprehensive plan to address the alarming rise in hate crimes in the United States, exemplified in recent days by […]
Thursday, August 14, 2014 | news
(New York, NY)–In a letter sent to the Department of Justice today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. called on Attorney General Eric Holder to take immediate action to address the unjustified use of lethal and excessive force against unarmed African Americans by police forces throughout the country. “The recent killings of Eric […]
Thursday, June 15, 2023 | news
Today, in the first court ruling of its kind, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) vacated the convictions of a Black man of Muslim faith and ordered him a new trial, after finding that his court-appointed attorney had well-documented racist and Islamophobic views that presented an actual conflict of interest. In an amicus brief and […]
Thursday, June 25, 2020 | news
ATLANTA – Today, the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals delivered a huge win for Alabama voters who are at risk of contracting COVID-19. The Circuit Court denied the defendants’ emergency motion to stay a lower court decision in People First of Alabama v. Merrill. This decision allows the district court’s injunction to remain in effect […]
Friday, July 29, 2016 | news
Democrats Are Spotlighting A Big Education Problem Pushing Kids Out of School Monique Dixon, the NAACP Legal Defense Fund deputy policy director and senior counsel, called the Democratic platform encouraging. “What we know is that students cannot learn if they’re not in school,” said Dixon. “It shows us that at least they are aware of […]
