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 […]
Thursday, June 23, 2022 | page
Gun Control and Public Safety LDF has long supported gun control — before the Supreme Court, and with federal, state, and local policymakers. In the U.S., a cruel indifference to life — especially the lives of Black people — has normalized what should rightly be understood as a crisis of gun violence, which endangers a disproportionate […]
Tuesday, June 2, 2020 | case-issue
On May 28, 2019, Governor Ron DeSantis signed SB7066 into law. SB7066 requires that returning citizens pay all financial obligations specified within a sentencing document before registering to vote; disproportionately harming low-income and racial minority returning citizens based on the well-documented and understood racial disparities in Florida’s criminal justice system and Florida’s racial wealth gap. […]
Friday, February 16, 2018 | case-issue
Gratz v. Bollinger & Grutter v. Bollinger Protecting holistic, race conscious admissions In June 2003, the Supreme Court issued landmark rulings in two companion cases, Grutter v. Bollinger and Gratz v. Bollinger. In Grutter, the Court rebuffed a constitutional challenge to the use of race in admissions to the University of Michigan Law School. In so doing, the Court […]
Tuesday, August 4, 2020 | news
Broad Coalition Filed Briefs Today Arguing Florida Law Unconstitutionally Bars Hundreds of Thousands of Floridians From Voting Solely Because They Lack Enough Money Voting rights advocates today urged a federal appeals court to uphold a decision that concluded a Florida law that created wealth-based hurdles to voting is unconstitutional. The American Civil Liberties Union, ACLU […]
Friday, June 28, 2019 | news
Federal Lawsuit Filed Immediately After Governor Signed Bill Into Law GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The American Civil Liberties Union, ACLU of Florida, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, and Brennan Center for Justice at NYU Law filed a federal lawsuit today challenging a new state law that creates wealth-based hurdles to voting and undermines Floridians’ overwhelming support for Amendment […]
