Friday, March 30, 2018 | board-of-directors
Friday, February 16, 2018 | case-issue
For many months after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita struck the City of New Orleans, residents struggled to return home. Displaced residents found themselves navigating a maze of obstacles: securing affordable housing in a safe neighborhood, obtaining gainful employment at a living wage and with reasonable benefits to care for a family. And then they were […]
Monday, November 16, 2015 | news
Boggs Media, LLC, and Paula Boggs Band are thrilled to announce their involvement with My Brother’s Keeper Alliance, which unites leaders across philanthropic, nonprofit, and private sectors to improve life outcomes of boys and men of color; as well as the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, the country’s first and foremost civil rights firm. My Brother’s […]
Friday, March 30, 2018 | page
Friday, March 7, 2014 | news
LDF Calls for Passage of Voting Rights Amendment Act and Another Vote on Civil Rights Nominee This weekend marks the 49th Anniversary of “Bloody Sunday,” the Selma to Montgomery, Alabama march that grew out of voter registration movements spearheaded by SNCC, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. Lawyers from the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, including President […]
Wednesday, August 18, 2021 | page
Wednesday, September 4, 2019 | news
(September 04, 2019) – The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), and the Young Center for Immigrant Children’s Rights announced today that both received gifts of $1 million from Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds. Their donation will be used to support the NAACP LDF’s ongoing and expanded efforts to strengthen our democracy and […]
Wednesday, October 9, 2013 | news
Leslie Proll, Director of LDF’s D.C. Office writes an op-ed in the Miami Herald on the dearth of black appellate court judges in the Eleventh Circuit: The government shutdown epitomizes the dysfunction caused by a small faction of Congress. But for federal judicial nominations, which require the advice and consent of the Senate, obstruction is […]
Wednesday, October 19, 2016 | ldf-flyers
Friday, October 11, 2019 | news
A federal court approved a final settlement between the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) and the City of Pleasant Grove regarding its at-large method of electing its City Council, which plaintiffs alleged violated Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act. Pursuant to the terms of the settlement, the City will change its […]
