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Stories of Triumph and Commitment to Civil Rights Distinguish the 32 Scholars Selected by LDF

New York, NY – Thirty-two law school and undergraduate students are the newest beneficiaries of a prestigious scholarship from the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (“LDF”), the organization announced today. Among the scholars are a student at Columbia Law School who spent part of his childhood homeless and a Harvard Law School student […]

Stop-and-Frisk Attorneys Ask for Investigation into NYPD’s Social Distancing Enforcement Practices to Include Curfew Enforcement

Today, the attorneys behind two class action lawsuits that challenged the New York City Police Department (NYPD)’s stop-and-frisk and trespass enforcement practices as racially discriminatory and unconstitutional filed a supplemental submission, asking for an investigation into the NYPD’s enforcement of social distancing directives to also include the NYPD’s curfew enforcement. Last week, the NAACP Legal […]

Stop-and-Frisk Attorneys Ask Court to Conduct Investigation Into NYPD’s Social-Distancing Enforcement Practices

Moratorium Requested on NYPD Social-Distancing Enforcement New York, NY – Today, the attorneys behind two of the three landmark class action lawsuits that challenged the NYPD’s stop-and-frisk and trespass enforcement practices as racially discriminatory and unconstitutional (Floyd v. City of New York and Davis v. City of New York) filed a motion against the City […]

Stop and Frisk, Part 3

The New York City Police Department has come under criticism in recent years for arresting people for trespassing in public housing, often for little or no reason. The trespassing arrests are a variation on the city’s broader, and highly controversial, stop-and-frisk program. On Thursday, Judge Shira Scheindlin of Federal District Court in Manhattan added her […]

Stop and Frisk on Trial in NYC

Floyd v. City of New York challenges the unconstitutional police stops of thousands of Blacks and Latinos across New York City. The landmark case, Floyd v. City of New York, is currently on trial before Judge Shira Scheindlin in a Manhattan federal court.  The plaintiffs in Floyd charge the NYPD with maintaining a policy and […]

Stonewall, Rebellion and Pride: How Police Fail LGBTQ+ Communities

Rebellion and Pride How Police Have Failed LGBTQ+ Communities By John Guzman, Communications Strategist – Police Accountability and Ella Wiley, Former LDF Senior Communications Associate While many have come to know Pride month as a celebration of LGBTQ+ communities and history, its roots in Black and Brown trans and gender non-conforming (TGNC) people’s advocacy against […]

Stinging DOJ Report Details Entrenched Racial Bias in Chicago Police Department, Systematic Violation of Residents’ Constitutional Rights

Read the PDF version of our statement here. Today, the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) issued a stinging report describing a pattern and practice of unconstitutional policing in the Chicago Police Department (CPD). The Department of Justice has been investigating the CPD, one of the nation’s largest police departments, since 2015 in the wake […]

Still Separate, Still Unequal: Leticia Smith-Evans Writes for Education Week on Legacy of Brown

  Leticia Smith-Evans Source:  Education Week Education Week’s latest issue commemorates the 60th anniversary of the landmark ruling in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas. In the issue, Leticia Smith-Evans argues in “K-12 Education: Still Separate, Still Unequal” that Brown’s mandate of ending legal apartheid is still an ideal as racial segregation in public schools persists. She […]

Still Separate, Still Unequal: Leticia Smith-Evans Writes for Education Week on Legacy of Brown

Education Week’s latest issue commemorates the 60th anniversary of the landmark ruling in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas. In the issue, Leticia Smith-Evans argues in “K-12 Education: Still Separate, Still Unequal” that Brown’s mandate of ending legal apartheid is still an ideal as racial segregation in public schools persists. She ends her […]

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