Friday, May 4, 2018 | page
The Legal Defense Fund’s (LDF) scholarship programs provide financial assistance to those who had been denied access to higher education for generations. For decades, the Herbert Lehman Education Fund and the Earl Warren Legal Training Program have guaranteed for many Black undergraduate students and law students that the battles to end segregation in education would […]
Wednesday, January 7, 2015 | news
Symposium: The disparate-impact framework remains essential and effective John Paul Schnapper-Casteras is Special Counsel for Appellate and Supreme Court Advocacy at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, which filed an amicus brief in support of the respondents in Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs v. The Inclusive Community Project, Inc. A fair and proper interpretation of […]
Wednesday, August 10, 2016 | news
The United States Department of Justice issued a scathing report detailing a pattern and practice of racial discrimination in the Baltimore Police Department (BPD). The report was issued after the Division engaged in a nearly one-year review of the BPD – an investigation requested by the City and numerous residents. The Civil Rights Division concluded […]
Friday, January 27, 2023 | page
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Monday, July 2, 2018 | scholarship-rec
In 1965, the same year the Voting Rights Act was passed, Sarah Louise McCoy brought a class action law suit on behalf of herself and other African American students against the Louisiana State Board of Education, seeking admission as a student to Northeast Louisiana State College. Northeast Louisiana State College the-president Walker stated at the […]
Thursday, November 14, 2019 | staff
Wednesday, September 8, 2021 | staff
Santino Coleman serves as Assistant Counsel at the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc. (“LDF”). Prior to joining LDF, Santino was a Staff Attorney with the Federal Defender Program for the Northern District of Illinois, where he represented people accused of federal crimes. Santino also worked as an attorney in the Capital Habeas Unit […]
Friday, March 30, 2018 | staff
Samuel “Sam” Spital is Associate Director-Counsel of the Legal Defense Fund (LDF). As one of two Associate Directors-Counsel, Sam will work in partnership with LDF’s eighth President and Director-Counsel Janai Nelson, Associate Director Counsel Todd A. Cox, and LDF’s senior leadership team to set and execute the strategic direction of the organization’s programmatic and internal […]
Friday, March 30, 2018 | staff
Friday, January 22, 2021 | staff
Ryan Tom is a Research and Operations Associate for the NAACP LDF’s Thurgood Marshall Institute. Prior to joining LDF, he served as a Paralegal for the Federal Defenders of New York. While there, he supported assistant federal public defenders representing indigent clients in the Southern District of New York. During his undergraduate studies, he researched […]
