Sunday, March 25, 2012 | news
Last week the world lost one of its most revered and effective legal warriors in the battle for civil rights: John A. Payton, president and director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund. President Barack Obama said in a statement, “The legal community has lost a legend, and while we mourn John’s passing, we […]
Tuesday, August 14, 2012 | news
Updated Aug. 14, 1 p.m.: The chorus calling for the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold the University of Texas at Austin’s current policy allowing race to be a factor in admissions decisions has been joined by the family of Heman Sweatt, who was famously denied access to the University of Texas School of Law in 1946 […]
Friday, February 16, 2018 | case-issue
On November 17, 2015, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) joined more than 70 civil and human rights organizations in filing an amicus curiae brief in Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association, a challenge to the Supreme Court’s 1977 ruling in Abood v. Detroit Board of Education, which affirmed the constitutionality of “fair share” provisions for public […]
Monday, December 19, 2016 | news
Read the PDF of our report here. Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) and The Sentencing Project issued Free the Vote: Unlocking Democracy in the Cells and on the Streets, reporting on the racially discriminatory and ever-growing problem of felony disenfranchisement. The denial or abridgement of the right to vote for […]
Friday, February 16, 2018 | case-issue
In the United States, as of 2018, nearly 6 million Americans, a disproportionate number of whom are people of color, are denied the right to vote on account of having felony convictions. Constitutional amendments protect against disfranchisement based on race, gender, and age. But there are no such recognized protections (yet) for those who have paid […]
Thursday, April 21, 2016 | ldf-brochures
The Next Phase of the Voting Rights Movement: Freeing the Vote for People with Felony Convictions Securing the right to vote for the disfranchised—persons who have lost their voting rights as a result of a felony conviction—is widely recognized as the next phase of the voting rights movement. Nationwide, more than 5.3 million Americans who […]
Friday, March 30, 2018 | board-of-directors
Tuesday, December 8, 2020 | case-issue
On April 21 2020, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), the law firm Squire Patton Boggs, Disability Rights Arkansas, and American Civil Liberties Union of Arkansas filed an emergency complaint against Governor Asa Hutchinson and Arkansas Department of Corrections (ADC) officials on behalf of Arkansas state prisoners over the inadequate measures to […]
Monday, December 7, 2020 | case-issue
On May 7 2020, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) filed an amicus brief in the U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals in support of Donahue Francis, a Black rental tenant who suffered extreme racial harassment, including a death threat, at the hands of a white neighbor. Mr. Francis and the local police […]
Friday, February 10, 2023 | page
Justice in Public Safety Project Framework for Public Safety Everyone deserves a system of public safety that promotes long-term, sustainable safety in our communities without exclusive reliance on law enforcement. A mother hugs her children following a protest in Oakland, CA on Jun. 4, 2020. (Photo by Yalonda M. James/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty […]
