Saturday, April 12, 2014 | news
Today, Members of Congress, led by Senator Ben Cardin (D-MD) and Representative John Conyers (D-MI-13), introduced the Democracy Restoration Act of 2014, S. 2235 and H.R. 4459. The bill would restore voting rights in federal elections to those who have lost their voting rights as a collateral consequence of a felony conviction. The disenfranchisement of persons […]
Monday, December 17, 2018 | news
Sherrilyn Ifill, president and director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), issued the following statement in response to reports that Russia’s attempts to influence the 2016 election included massive efforts against African Americans: “These extraordinary revelations should be of the gravest concern to anyone who cares about the integrity of our […]
Tuesday, February 7, 2017 | news
Read the PDF of our statement here Confirmation of DeVos Shameful Dereliction of Duty Statement of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. on Confirmation of Betsy DeVos On news that the Senate confirmed the nomination of Betsy DeVos to be Secretary of Education, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. Director of Policy Todd […]
Thursday, March 7, 2019 | news
To ensure that another generation of Black and Brown students in Baltimore are not held back from realizing their dreams because of unconstitutional and inequitable education funding, a group of concerned parents and civil rights organizations are returning to court today to reopen the historic Bradford vs. Maryland State Board of Education litigation that spurred […]
Thursday, May 9, 2024 | news
Yesterday, Cultural & Racial Equity for Every Dragon (CREED) and the Southlake Anti-Racism Coalition (SARC) submitted an open letter to the Carroll Independent School District (CISD), in Southlake, Texas, urging it to negotiate in good faith with the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights (OCR) to remedy serious civil rights violations. Earlier this […]
Tuesday, January 22, 2019 | news
The State of Maryland In Violation of Court Orders Requiring Full Funding for Students in Baltimore City See videos of parents and students: https://www.aclu-md.org/bradford Read the letter here. BALTIMORE – The State of Maryland has failed to address the abysmal conditions in Baltimore City schools, leading to classrooms without heat and students wearing winter coats […]
Friday, October 5, 2012 | news
It seemed like a good strategy: To boost the tiny number of black and Hispanic students at the city’s most elite high schools, the city this year expanded access to programs meant to prepare eighth-graders for the schools’ admissions test. But that approach is fundamentally broken, according to the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, which today filed a […]
Monday, December 16, 2024 | news
Media Contacts: Troi Barnes, media@naacpldf.org Alejandra Lopez, The Legal Aid Society, ailopez@legal-aid.org Alora Sherbert, Queens Defenders, press@queensdefenders.org ***FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE*** (New York, NY) – Today, multiple organizations and advocates convened a press conference and rally on the steps of City Hall ahead of a New York City Council oversight hearing on the New York […]
Monday, November 24, 2025 | news
BOSTON, MA – Today, the Legal Defense Fund, the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund, LatinoJusticePRLDEF, and Asian Americans Advancing Justice-AAJC filed a motion to intervene and a proposed motion to dismiss in Boston Parent Coalition for Academic Excellence v. Boston School Committee on behalf of two community organizations who represent Black, Latinx, and […]
Friday, December 11, 2020 | case-issue
On December 17 2019, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) and the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice (CHHIRJ) at Harvard Law School filed an amicus brief in the matter of Commonwealth v. Evelyn urging the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court to recognize that an individual’s identity as a Black teenage boy […]
