Tuesday, August 20, 2013 | news
Harry Belafonte, a renowned activist and musician, released a statement on his Facebook page calling for a new, fair sentencing hearing for LDF’s client, Duane Buck. Mr. Buck was sentenced to death by a jury that was told that he was more likely to be dangerous because he is Black.” “I am proud to join […]
Monday, February 18, 2013 | news
The last white man to join death row from Harris County was a convicted serial killer in 2004. Since then, 12 of the last 13 men newly condemned to die have been black, a Houston Chronicle analysis of prison and prosecution records shows. The latest death sentence was handed down in October to a Hispanic. The role […]
Monday, July 2, 2018 | scholarship-rec
In 1964, Harold A. Franklin became the first African American student at Auburn University.Franklin graduated from Alabama State University, then named Alabama State College, in 1962 with a degree in government and psychology. When he applied to Auburn, the University denied Franklin admittance in early 1963, leading civil rights attorney Fred Gray to file a […]
Wednesday, January 5, 2022 | case-issue
On August 3, 2020, LDF filed a lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana challenging Louisiana’s failure to ensure all eligible voters can vote safely in the upcoming elections amidst the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. LDF represented the NAACP Louisiana State Conference, Power Coalition for Equity and Justice, and individual voters […]
Monday, March 20, 2017 | ldf-perspectives
By LDF Archives Today, March 20th 2017, we celebrate the 77th anniversary of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (LDF). To many, LDF is best known for ending school segregation through the landmark 1954 Supreme Court decision Brown v. Board of Education. LDF is also well-known for the pivotal work of its founder and first […]
Monday, March 20, 2017 | news
Today, March 20th 2017, we celebrate the 77th anniversary of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (LDF). To many, LDF is best known for ending school segregation through the landmark 1954 Supreme Court decision Brown v. Board of Education. LDF is also well-known for the pivotal work of its founder and first Director-Counsel, Thurgood […]
Monday, August 26, 2019 | staff
Hamida serves as Senior Policy Counsel for the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. Before joining LDF, Hamida was National Advocacy and Policy Counsel for the ACLU’s Campaign for Smart Justice, an integrated advocacy campaign focused on reducing the prison population by 50 percent and ending racism in the criminal justice system. In this […]
Wednesday, April 18, 2018 | news
The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (LDF) filed an amended complaint in the ongoing lawsuit originally filed on behalf of the NAACP, the nation’s premier grassroots civil rights organization, against the U.S. Department of Homeland Security for its decision to rescind Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Haiti. Haitian Women for Haitian Refugees (HWHR) and the Haitian Lawyers’ […]
Wednesday, February 5, 2020 | page
HAIR DISCRIMINATION Frequently Asked Questions What is Hair Discrimination? Hair discrimination is rooted in systemic racism, and often helps preserve white spaces. Policies that further hair discrimination advance white Anglo-Saxon Protestant cultural norms as the default norms to which everyone should adhere. Hair and grooming policies that prohibit natural hairstyles — like afros, braids, bantu […]
Friday, February 16, 2018 | case-issue
In August 2009, LDF filed a friend-of-the-court brief defending the constitutionality of the North Carolina’s Minority and Women Business Enterprise (M/WBE) Program for state-funded road construction projects. The North Carolina General Assembly reauthorized its M/WBE Program in 2006, based on its considered policy judgment that historical and ongoing discrimination continues to impede access to contracting […]
