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Baltimore Consent Decree Vital Step for Residents Who Have Waited Decades for Reform

Read the PDF of our statement here. Statement of NAACP Legal Defense Fund President and Director-Counsel Sherrilyn Ifill on Baltimore Consent Decree Today, the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) and Baltimore City officials announced that they have entered into a court-enforceable agreement, a consent decree, to address alleged unlawful policing practices of the Baltimore Police […]

Baltimore City Public School Students and Families Deserve Educational Equity

We need your stories. On March 7, 2019, a group of concerned parents joined by the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. and ACLU of Maryland returned to court in the historic Bradford vs. Maryland State Board of Education case to ensure that another generation of Black and Brown students in Baltimore are not held […]

Baltimore City Council Passes Resolution Supporting Suit Against Maryland State Board of Education Over Constitutionally-Inadequate Funding for Baltimore Schools

The Baltimore City Council voted today to pass a resolution supporting a lawsuit brought by city schoolchildren and their families challenging inadequate state funding for Baltimore City schools. Represented by the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) and the American Civil Liberties Union of Maryland, the lawsuit seeks to hold Maryland accountable for […]

Bad Times in Tulia, Texas

On July 23, 1999, more than ten percent of Tulia’s African-American population was arrested as the result of a drug “sting” conducted by a lone police officer with a troubled history in law enforcement. Swisher County deputy sheriff Tom Coleman alleged that 46 Tulia residents sold him drugs. Forty of those arrested were African-American, three […]

Bad Housing Blues: New Report Reveals Evidence of Source of Discrimination in the Memphis Area and Proposes Recommendations to Address National Concerns

Three-year study shows housing discrimination evident where racism and income inequality converge Washington, D.C. — The National Fair Housing Alliance (NFHA) and the Legal Defense Fund (LDF) today released a new report, THE BAD HOUSING BLUES: Discrimination in the Housing Choice Voucher Program in Memphis, Tennessee. The report examines economic and racial discrimination in housing, […]

Bad Housing Blues: Discrimination in the Housing Choice Voucher Program in Memphis, Tennessee

The Bad Housing Blues Discrimination in the Housing Choice Voucher Program in Memphis, Tennessee Part 1: Housing Assistance Housing Choice Voucher Program Part 2: Housing Availability Memphis and Shelby County, Tennessee Part 3: Housing Access Strategies for Change Memphis, Tennessee has a long history of racial bias and economic inequality, and often, these forces have […]

Author Gilbert King Congratulated by Legal Defense Fund on Pulitzer Prize

Author Gilbert King, Winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for non-fiction visited LDF’s offices in New York, where he was congratulated by LDF’s staff.  King’s book Devil in the Grove:  Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America, recounts the story of an alleged rape in Lake County, Florida in 1949 and […]

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