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Cleveland Donald Jr

Cleveland Donald Jr. was the second black graduate of the University of Mississippi, andstarted a black studies program at the college. Born in Newton, Miss., Donald attended Tougaloo College in Jackson for a year, then enrolled at the University of Mississippi in 1964 and graduated in 1966 with a history degree. He later earned a […]

Claude M. Johnson

Claude Johnson is the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund’s Chief Development Officer. He has over 40 years of experience in the non-profit sector, spanning a career that has included arts management, consultancy, and major gifts fundraising in the higher education and culture sectors. Mr. Johnson most recently served as the Chief Advancement Officer for […]

Class-Based vs. Race-Based Admissions

Admissions policies that take class into account, rather than race, are getting a renewed push as a win-win solution. The contention is that they more fully serve the goal of diversity in higher education and provide a progressive way to resolve an enduring conflict that has now returned to the Supreme Court in a case […]

Class Representative Nicole Cogdell Discussess Wet Seal Case on CNN

Class Representative Nicole Cogdell discusses her experience with employment discrimination at Wet Seal in this CNN video interview.

Class of Job Applicants Reach Settlement Resolving Lawsuit over Discriminatory Impact of WMATA’s Criminal Background Screening Policy

Read a PDF of our statement here. Class of Job Applicants Reach Settlement Resolving Lawsuit over Discriminatory Impact of WMATA’s Criminal Background Screening Policy Today, a class of African-American applicants and employees who were denied employment opportunities by the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) or one of its contractors under a discontinued 2011 criminal background […]

Class Actions Key Tool in Combating Discrimination

  Class Actions Key Tool in Combating Discrimination    Statement of LDF President and Director-Counsel on the Importance of Class Actions to Civil Rights Litigation in advance of oral argument in AT & T Mobility LLC v. Vincent and Liza Concepcion   (New York, New York) – The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. […]

Class Action Against New York City Over NYPD Checkpoints Allowed To Continue

 MANHATTAN (CN) – Public housing residents can proceed with a class action lawsuit claiming that New York City and the New York City Housing Authority allowed the police to set up “checkpoints” that routinely violated tenants’ rights in front of their homes, a federal judge ruled.       A lawyer for the NAACP Legal Defense […]

Clarence Okoh

Clarence joins LDF as an Equal Justice Works Fellow sponsored by the Text-to-Give campaign. His fellowship project seeks to challenge the discriminatory use and impact of artificial intelligence and machine-learning technologies on communities of color and low-income communities. He is a 2020 graduate of New York University School of Law. While in law school, Clarence […]

Claims of Stop and Frisk in City Buildings Go Forward

Southern District Judge Shira Scheindlin (See Profile) yesterday denied the city’s request for summary judgment against nine individuals claiming unlawful stops, frisks and arrests by New York City Police in the city’s housing authority buildings. Issuing an 84-page opinion in the putative class action Davis v. The City of New York, 10 Civ. 0699, Scheindlin said Fourth Amendment claims […]