Friday, December 19, 2025 | careers
The NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) is the country’s first and foremost civil and human rights law organization. Founded in 1940 under the leadership of Thurgood Marshall, who subsequently became the first Black U.S. Supreme Court Justice, LDF was launched at a time when the nation’s aspirations for equality and due process […]
Tuesday, October 4, 2016 | news
Our country faces profound and important challenges in the years ahead. As the vice-presidential candidates prepare to take to the podiums for their debate, there are many essential questions anyone seeking our nation’s second highest office must answer. Over the course of the presidential and vice-presidential debate cycle, the NAACP Legal Defense Fund will be […]
Sunday, September 25, 2016 | news
Our country faces profound and important challenges in the years ahead. As the presidential candidates prepare to take to the podiums for the first debate, there are many essential questions anyone seeking our nation’s highest office must answer. Though far from exhaustive given the many pressing policy questions we face, over the course of the […]
Monday, February 4, 2019 | staff
Monday, December 23, 2019 | staff
Ashok Chandran joined LDF as Assistant Counsel in 2019. Prior to joining LDF, Ashok was an associate at the civil rights law firm Emery Celli Brinckerhoff & Abady LLP, where he represented victims of housing discrimination, police misconduct, and prison abuse. He also represented plaintiffs in complex institutional reform litigation challenging policing practices in New […]
Friday, February 25, 2022 | staff
Ashley M. Burrell serves as Senior Counsel at the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc. where she works on criminal justice, educational equity, and voting rights cases. Ashley is a member of LDF’s trial team in Arnold v. Barbers Hill Independent School District, a case challenging a Texas school district’s racially discriminatory hair and […]
Wednesday, February 10, 2016 | news
Yesterday, President Obama released the last budget of his presidency with a focus on promoting equity in education. The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) supports the President’s emphasis on promoting equal access to quality educational opportunities in his budget and encourages Congress to take up these proposals to help all students achieve […]
Tuesday, August 4, 2015 | news
Sleepy county’s history of discrimination It’s a process that has become all too familiar for civil rights lawyers this past year — sitting at a computer poring over yet another video showing a state official killing or injuring another unarmed Black person. But hearing of the death of Sandra Bland in a Waller County, Texas, […]
Tuesday, December 8, 2020 | case-issue
Case: Education Arnold Family v. Barber’s Hill Independent School District Challenging hair discrimination in schools Filed: 2020 Since May 2020, LDF – along with co-counsel Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP– has represented De’Andre Arnold, his mother Sandy Arnold, and his cousin Kaden Bradford in their hair discrimination lawsuit against the Barbers Hill Independent […]
Thursday, October 30, 2014 | news
On April 16, 2014, the American Civil Liberties Union of Arkansas (ACLU) brought a lawsuit in Arkansas state court challenging the validity of Arkansas’s new voter photo ID law under the Arkansas Constitution. At the same time, LDF and the Arkansas NAACP were in communication with the Arkansas Secretary of State Mark Martin about the significant burdens that […]
