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GeDa Jones Herbert

GeDá Jones Herbert joins LDF from the Equal Justice Initiative in Montgomery, Alabama where she focused on both appellate litigation and community education. GeDá commenced her legal career in private practice, but has since focused on civil rights, criminal defense and public policy. As the Law Program Site Manager for Santa Clara County, California at […]

GANGS Coalition Responds to NYPD-IG Gang Policing Report

Press Contacts: Alejandra Lopez, Redmond Haskins, The Legal Aid Society, ailopez@legal-aid.org rhaskins@legal-aid.org Troi Barnes, Legal Defense Fund, media@naacpldf.org Sarai Bejarano,Latino Justice, media@latinojustice.org William Owen, STOP, william.owen@stopspying.org Report Confirms Persistent Racial Disparities, Policy Failures, and Need for Passage of Intro 798 New York, NY — The G.A.N.G.S. Coalition, alongside advocates, legal experts, elected officials, and directly […]

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FOR NEARLY 80 YEARS, the NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUCATIONAL FUND has been FIGHTING to FULFILL the PROMISE of RACIAL JUSTICE and EQUALITY in OUR CONSTITUTION. FOR OVER 400 YEARS, AFRICAN AMERICANS have BUILT, ENRICHED, and TRANSFORMED OUR DEMOCRACY. AND WE WILL NOT STOP. Please roll over or click on the photos below to learn […]

Gabriella E. Morris

GA College Affordability Hearing Form

Education: Georgia College Affordability Georgia College Affordability Public Comment Sign Up Make your voice heard at the Nov. 6 hearing! Complete this form to submit your story to LDF or be contacted by LDF about providing comment at the hearing

G.A.N.G.S. Coalition Calls for the Abolishment of NYPD’s Gang Database with Intro 798

Press Contact: Troi Barnes, Legal Defense Fund, media@naacpldf.org  Alejandra Lopez, The Legal Aid Society, ailopez@legal-aid.org Sarai Bejarano, media@latinojustice.org Alora Sherbert, Queens Defenders, press@queensdefenders.org Stopping Racial Profiling and Protecting our NYC Community New York, NY –  The G.A.N.G.S. Coalition, alongside advocates, legal experts, elected officials, community organizers, and impacted individuals gathered on February 24 on the […]

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Full Court Hearing Begins in Federal Court to Decide Fate of Consent Decree Protecting Black Voting Rights and Judicial Representation in Louisiana

Today, the full Fifth Circuit will hear oral argument to reconsider a lower federal court order that upheld the landmark Chisom consent decree which came out of the case Chisolm v. Louisiana. The decree protects the rights of Black voters in Orleans Parish, Louisiana by providing an equal opportunity to elect candidates of their choice to […]

From Selma, Alabama, LDF President & Director-Counsel Appears on the Melissa Harris-Perry Show

From the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, NAACP LDF President & Director-Counsel Sherrilyn Ifill appeared on Melissa Harris-Perry’s show on MSNBC on March 2 — one day before the annual commemoration of Bloody Sunday. Ms. Ifill’s appearance follows LDF’s February 27 oral argument before the U.S. Supreme Court in Shelby County, Alabama v. Holder, […]

From Brown II to Today: A Discussion with Sherrilyn Ifill and Nikole Hannah-Jones

On May 21, 2020, the Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. hosted a discussion between President and Director-Counsel Sherrilyn Ifill and Pulitzer Prize winning writer Nikole Hannah-Jones on the consequences of segregated education, how the 1965 Brown II decision derailed the promise of Brown I, the ongoing policies and practices that perpetuate separate and unequal […]