Thursday, October 19, 2023 | case-issue
Black Farmers FAQ The history of discrimination against Black farmers and policy initiatives to remedy these inequities. Black farmers have long faced systemic discrimination by public and private institutions and barriers to economic mobility. Inequities in the administration of government farm programs and discrimination by the U.S. Department of Agriculture have had a devastating impact […]
Tuesday, May 23, 2023 | news
Today, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF), O’Melveny & Myers LLP, and longtime Arkansas civil rights attorney, Arkie Byrd, filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of the Christian Ministerial Alliance, and individual voters, Patricia Brewer, Carolyn Briggs, Lynette Brown, and Mable Bynum, challenging Arkansas’s 2021 congressional redistricting. Plaintiffs allege that the redistricting violates the Fourteenth and […]
Tuesday, January 22, 2013 | news
“When we look at whose schools are policed and which students have to go through metal detectors, get pad-downs, get drug-searched on a routine basis, it’s our students of color and our communities of color across this country,” said Matthew Cregor, of the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund. “The Newtown, Connecticut, massacre has led […]
Thursday, May 8, 2025 | news
CONTACT: Ella Wiley, ACLU, media@aclu.org, 925-819-0555 Troi Barnes, LDF, media@ldf.org. 929-736-1528 A federal court has ruled after a full trial that Alabama’s 2023 congressional map not only violates Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act but was enacted by the Alabama Legislature with racially discriminatory intent. This ruling establishes that the Alabama congressional map must include […]
Wednesday, March 9, 2016 | news
Yesterday, Hon. Mark L. Earley, Hon. Timothy K. Lewis, Hon. Gregory B. Craig, and Hon. Sheila Jackson Lee filed a “friend of the court” brief urging the U.S. Supreme Court to consider the appeal of Texas death-sentenced prisoner, Duane Buck. Mr. Buck, an African-American man, was sentenced to death after his own attorneys introduced “expert” […]
Friday, February 8, 2019 | news
Parents in Binghamton, New York are seeking a public apology and other redress from the Binghamton School District for the mistreatment of their daughters (the “girls”) who were subjected to an illegal strip search at East Middle School on January 15, 2019. The school principal, Tim Simonds, sent the girls to the nurse’s office accusing […]
Friday, March 30, 2018 | board-of-directors
Tuesday, September 2, 2014 | news
LDF is fighting to stop water shutoffs in Detroit as we also challenge Texas’ discriminatory photo ID law. Today, a two-week trial begins in United States v. Texas, a federal challenge to Texas’s discriminatory photo ID law, Senate Bill 14. In this case with important national implications, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. […]
Thursday, January 4, 2024 | case-issue
Thurgood Marshall Institute Report Beyond Learning Loss Prioritizing the Needs of Black Students as Public Education Emerges From a Pandemic By Sandhya Kajeepeta, PhD | January 2024 The period of 2020 through 2022 was defined by several crises: of course, the COVID-19 pandemic and its resulting economic crisis, but also the increased visibility of racialized […]
Friday, January 5, 2024 | page
Thurgood Marshall Institute Report Beyond Learning Loss Prioritizing the Needs of Black Students as Public Education Emerges From a Pandemic By Sandhya Kajeepeta, PhD From 2020 to 2022, multiple crises reshaped the U.S. landscape, including the COVID-19 pandemic and the resulting economic downturn. Empirical evidence indicates that Black Americans faced elevated age-adjusted rates of COVID-19 […]
