Thursday, March 21, 2019 | ldf-events
NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc, President and Director-Counsel, Sherrilyn Ifill, will speak at the Fourth National People of Color Legal Scholarship Conference. People of Color and the Future of Democracy: We find ourselves at a critical moment, both as a nation and as a community of legal scholars of color interested in the […]
Thursday, September 28, 2017 | ldf-perspectives
The Supreme Court begins its 2017/2018 term on October 2. This is the first full term with the Supreme Court back at its full strength following the controversial confirmation of Justice Neil Gorsuch. In October, the Court will hear twelve (12) sets of oral arguments on blockbuster issues including: religious objections to providing services for same-sex […]
Monday, April 14, 2025 | news
Today, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF) and 44 other civil rights organizations and education advocacy groups sent letters to elementary and secondary State Education Agencies (SEAs) and Local Education Agencies (LEAs) urging them to continue to invest in programs that lawfully advance diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility. The letter comes amid the Department of Education’s […]
Friday, August 22, 2003 | case-update
Thirty-five former defendants in the infamous drug sting in Tulia, Texas celebrated the announcement today that Texas Governor Rick Perry had granted full pardons for their convictions on alleged drug crimes in 1998-1999. These pardons finally vindicate the men and women of Tulia who were wrongfully charged and convicted on the word of one dishonest, […]
Tuesday, July 23, 2013 | case-update
Former U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens publicly criticized the recent ruling by a slim majority of the court to tear the heart out of the Voting Rights Act. Justice Stevens’ critique was part of a book review he authored for The New York Review of Books of historian Gary May’s Bending Toward Justice: The […]
Friday, February 18, 2011 | news
The Columbia Journal of Race and Law, whose editor-in-chief is Sheila Adams (Columbia Law, ’11), made its official debut today. Sheila is a current Warren Scholarship recipient and a former Summer LDF Law Intern. In connection with the Journal’s unveiling, there will be a panel on civil rights at Columbia Law on February 21, featuring Jack Greenberg, […]
Thursday, January 27, 2022 | news
Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc (LDF) announced that former Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Julián Castro will join LDF’s Thurgood Marshall Institute (TMI) as a Non-Resident Senior Research Fellow. Secretary Castro will collaborate with TMI on initiatives related to lifting communities of color out of poverty and boosting their economic […]
Tuesday, April 16, 2013 | news
Testimony: Duane Buck’s Case, Whose Sentencing Hearing Was Poisoned With Racial Discrimination, Shows That Texas Needs The Racial Justice Act (Austin, Texas, April 16, 2013) Several prominent Texans submitted testimony to the House of Representatives Criminal Jurisprudence Committee today in support of the Racial Justice Act, which seeks to prohibit the imposition of a death […]
Monday, December 30, 2013 | news
Sherrilyn Ifill writes in The Root today that pop culture and social media scandals like Paula Deen and Duck Dynasty distract us from meaningful civil rights and social justice challenges that should command our full attention. Ifill adds that for LDF, the lesson from 2013 is to choose race battles for meaningful political, economic and social […]
Wednesday, January 29, 2025 | page
Forced Moves How Rent Increases are Driving Informal Evictions Across the Country By Sandhya Kajeepeta, PhD, Lauren O’Neil and Kenya Cummings Nearly every city in the U.S. is experiencing an affordable housing crisis. Increases in rent costs have been outpacing increases in income for years, and the number of rent-burdened households (spending more than 30% […]
