Tuesday, November 20, 2012 | news
Agreement Continues Successful Baltimore Housing Mobility Program BALTIMORE – Today, the Court approved a historic settlement to resolve a long-running class action lawsuit at a hearing in the U.S. District Court of Maryland. Known as Thompson v. HUD, this case sought to eradicate the legacy of nearly a century of government-sponsored racial segregation in the […]
Friday, February 16, 2018 | case-issue
In 2011, LDF began representing a group of nine African-American longshoremen, members of International Longshoremen’s Union, Local 333 who work on the Port of Baltimore, one of the busiest and fastest growing ports in the country. The longshoremen filed charges with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission alleging that Port management discriminates in its selection […]
Thursday, April 20, 2017 | news
On April 19, 2015, Freddie Gray, a young African-American man, succumbed to spinal cord injuries he suffered while in the custody of Baltimore City police officers. His was the fifth in-custody death in Baltimore in three years, laying bare the longstanding problem of police violence against people of color in Baltimore and across the nation. […]
Thursday, January 12, 2017 | news
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 […]
Wednesday, March 27, 2019 | ldf-perspectives
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 […]
Monday, April 29, 2019 | news
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 […]
Friday, February 16, 2018 | case-issue
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 […]
Tuesday, January 17, 2023 | news
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, […]
Monday, January 9, 2023 | page
https://www.naacpldf.org/wp-content/uploads/GettyImages-1299417402.mp4 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 […]
Tuesday, April 23, 2013 | news
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 […]
