Wednesday, December 5, 2012 | news
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has found a basis for Nicole Cogdell’s claim that she was racially discriminated against at the clothing retailer Wet Seal’s King of Prussia store – the case now moves to federal court. Read the full article at Philly.com.
Friday, December 11, 2020 | case-issue
On July 23 2020, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) filed an amicus brief in the Supreme Court case Edwards v. Vannoy, where the Court will consider whether to retroactively apply its ruling from last term in Ramos v. Louisiana that the Sixth Amendment requires a unanimous jury before a defendant can be convicted of a serious offense […]
Tuesday, March 18, 2025 | news
Last night, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF) and Tyler Bailey of Bailey Law Firm, LLC filed a preliminary injunction on behalf of South Carolina educators, students, author Dr. Ibram X. Kendi, and the South Carolina State Conference of the NAACP, asking a District Court in South Carolina to immediately halt the implementation of Budget Proviso 1.79, a censorship law, to […]
Friday, February 3, 2017 | news
Read the PDF of our statement here Today, Republican leaders of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce introduced resolutions of disapproval under the Congressional Review Act to overturn the regulations on accountability and state plans under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA). This resolution cannot move forward. The accountability regulations are more critical […]
Monday, January 30, 2017 | news
Education Advocates Urge State Departments of Education to Improve School Climates through ESSA State Plans As the Senate considers the next U.S. Secretary of Education, ultimately responsible for approving state plans under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), a coalition of education advocates sent letters to Departments of Education in eight states advising officials to […]
Friday, February 16, 2018 | page
LDF works tirelessly to advance educational equity and ensure that all students have access to a safe, truthful, inclusive, and comprehensive education. LDF’s victories established the foundations for the civil rights that all Americans enjoy today. In its first two decades, LDF undertook a coordinated legal assault against officially enforced public school segregation. This campaign […]
Thursday, October 11, 2012 | news
In a 2007 case, Chief Justice John Roberts famously wrote that “the way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race.” That’s more glib than helpful, given this country’s long and painful struggle with racial inequity. But it’s a window into the way the court’s conservative majority thinks […]
Wednesday, October 1, 2014 | news
LDF applauds the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights release today of guidance to states, school districts, and schools to help ensure that all students have access to equal educational opportunity through the equitable distribution of school resources. All states and schools have an obligation under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of […]
Friday, February 16, 2018 | page
Since its founding, the Legal Defense Fund has fought for the rights of Black Americans to work, live, and thrive without racially imposed barriers. In one of our first cases in 1940, LDF secured a vital decision that required equal pay for black and white teachers. Through litigation, advocacy, and public education, LDF’s economic justice […]
Wednesday, February 26, 2014 | news
Leticia Smith-Evans, Interim Director of the Education Practice Group, writes for EdWeek on the recent legal guidance issued by the DOJ and DOE on school discipline. Responding to the questions of the necessity and projected efficacy of the guidance, Smith-Evans writes “At a time when opportunity gaps exist that largely correlate to a student’s race, the […]
