Friday, October 5, 2012 | news
The NAACP Legal Defense Fund today filed a complaint with the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights about New York City’s specialized high schools’ admissions process. The complaint alleges that reliance on an unproven test as the sole determinant for admissions leads to disproportionately low numbers of African-American and Latino students at the schools and […]
Monday, October 1, 2012 | news
The U.S. Supreme Court term that begins Monday promises to be one of the most important for civil rights in decades, with the potential for blockbuster decisions on issues from race in classrooms and the voting booth to legal recognition for same-sex marriage. Read the full article on First Read.
Friday, October 5, 2012 | news
Stuyvesant, long considered the city’s most elite public high school, offered spaces to 967 students this year. 19 of those students were black. That’s more than double the number of black students admitted the year before. On Thursday, the NAACP Legal Defense Fund is filing a federal civil rights complaint, challenging the city’s admissions process […]
Tuesday, February 19, 2013 | news
The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (“LDF”) joined other advocates in filing a federal civil rights complaint challenging a Texas school district’s practice of using law enforcement officers to issue criminal misdemeanor tickets to students for minor behavioral infractions. The complaint outlines discriminatory patterns in the ticketing practice. Nearly half of all misdemeanor tickets […]
Wednesday, February 20, 2013 | case-update
The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (“LDF”) joined other advocates in filing a federal civil rights complaint challenging a Texas school district’s practice of using law enforcement officers to issue criminal misdemeanor tickets to students for minor behavioral infractions. The complaint outlines discriminatory patterns in the ticketing practice. Nearly half of all misdemeanor tickets issued […]
Tuesday, July 28, 2020 | news
The NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund (LDF) has joined 154 other organizations in calling on Congress to pay tribute to Representative John Lewis (D-GA) by passing the HEROES Act and the Voting Rights Advancement Act (VRAA). Enacting these legislative measures would protect the integrity of the November election and counter the disenfranchisement that communities […]
Friday, June 5, 2020 | news
Yesterday, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) joined a coalition of civil rights organizations, organized by the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, in sending letters to U.S. Attorney General William P. Barr demanding an independent investigation of the Minneapolis Police Department (MPD) and Louisville Metro Police Department (LMPD) officers involved in the […]
Wednesday, September 23, 2020 | news
Today, a Civil Rights Coalition including the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc (LDF) sent a letter to the House and Senate Education Committees asking them to ensure that learning can continue, especially for the most marginalized children, by providing sufficient targeted education funding. As decisions are made about how to distribute much needed […]
Wednesday, July 8, 2020 | news
DETROIT, Mich. – A coalition of civil rights organizations fighting to end water shutoffs in Detroit and ensure water is affordable to city residents had the following response to Governor Gretchen Whitmer’s executive order issued today that extends the moratorium on water shutoffs to the end of the year. “While the Governor’s executive order […]
Wednesday, March 1, 2023 | news
Washington, D.C. – Today, a diverse coalition of 53 health, racial justice, environmental, labor, immigration, faith-based, disability rights, education, LGBTQ+, housing, justice reform, and voting and civil rights organizations published a new report – Strengthening Democracy: A Progress Report on Federal Agency Action to Promote Access to Voting – which assesses how federal agencies have […]
