Monday, December 28, 2020 | news
This year, as LDF entered its 80th year of commitment to racial justice and civil and human rights, we faced one of the most unpredictable and challenging years in our nation’s history. A year that began with LDF challenging the Trump Administration over its Muslim Ban and Law Enforcement Commission ended with suing President Trump […]
Monday, November 23, 2020 | page
In March of 2020, Breonna Taylor was killed in her home by four Louisville Metro police officers. Six months later, Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron announced that the officers would not be indicted on any charges related to her death. The only charges filed were for wanton endangerment for shooting into a neighboring apartment. This […]
Wednesday, September 17, 2014 | news
More than one year after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down an essential provision of the Voting Rights Act, Americans across the country are standing up for the right to vote and calling on Congress to protect voters from discrimination. The Voting Rights Act is widely regarded as one of the greatest pieces of civil […]
Thursday, September 8, 2011 | news
LDF Presents Testimony to Congress Regarding State Laws That Threaten to Undermine Minority Voting Rights (Washington, D.C.) — Today, Ryan Haygood, Director of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund’s Political Participation Group, offered testimony at a hearing before the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Human Rights that addressed a wave of laws that […]
Wednesday, August 14, 2013 | news
A Wild Justice: The Death and Resurrection of Capital Punishment in America by Evan J. Mandery highlights LDF’s role in the movement to end the death penalty. Mandery describes LDF as influential on “every major death penalty case in the United States” and “the leading voice in the abolition movement, dominating all others.” The book, which […]
Thursday, August 22, 2013 | news
Two days before the 50th Anniversary of the March on Washington, in which she will be a featured speaker, Sherrilyn Ifill writes an op-ed in the Baltimore Sun “Why we still march.” Constance Baker Motley, the great civil rights lawyer with the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, was not planning to attend the now-famous civil rights March on […]
Tuesday, February 26, 2013 | news
The Supreme Court almost never says why it refuses to take a case. On Monday, however, when the court denied a petition from the man convicted in Calhoun v. United States, Justice Sonia Sotomayor, joined by Justice Stephen Breyer, issued a rare explanatory statement. One part of the trial record was so ugly that they wanted […]
Thursday, December 13, 2012 | news
At a congressional hearing billed as the first-ever focused on ending the “school-to-prison pipeline,” Edward Ward emerged as a voice of experience. Ward, a recent high school graduate from Chicago, recalled classmates suspended for failing to wear ID badges and security officers patrolling hallways. Arrests were so common that a police processing center was created […]
Friday, April 27, 2018 | news
‘Engaging in Education Equity’ to Ensure Every Student Truly Succeeds New toolkit from NAACP Legal Defense Fund, Opportunity Institute and the Dignity in Schools Campaign gives communities resources to impact their schools No Child Left Behind was widely criticized for leaving huge numbers of children behind and further marginalizing low-income communities and communities of […]
Thursday, August 1, 2013 | news
In today’s New York Times, Charles Ogletree Jr., Jesse Climenko Professor of Law at Harvard, has penned a powerful op-ed about Duane Buck and the deeply unfair and unconstitutional biases that plagued his sentencing hearing. “Nearly 50 years after the end of Jim Crow, African-Americans are still facing execution because of their race…There is no […]
