Friday, August 13, 2010 | news
For well over a century, children born on American soil have been American citizens. Changing that guarantee is not a new idea, but Arizona Senator Jon Kyl’s proposed hearings on the subject have given it new life. A close look at the history and purpose of the citizenship provision makes clear why changing it would […]
Monday, June 22, 2020 | news
CONTACT: Rafael Medina, The Leadership Conference, medina@civilrights.org, 202.869.0390 Ty James, Congressman Bennie G. Thompson (D-Miss.), Tyron.James@mail.house.gov, 202.225.5876 Marc Banks, NAACP, 443.608.4073, dbanks@naacpnet.org Teresa Candori, National Urban League, 212.558.5362, tcandori@nul.org Phoebe Plagens, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, 212.965.2235, pplagens@naacpldf.org WASHINGTON – On a press call today, civil rights advocates urged the Senate to reject Cory Wilson’s nomination to the U.S. […]
Tuesday, April 9, 2024 | news
Media Contact: LDF Media Office: media@naacpldf.org, 212-965-2200 ACLU National: media@aclu.org WilmerHale LLP: Frank E. James, frank.james@wilmerhale.com. 202-247-3560 (California) – Today, a consortium of nationally renowned civil rights organizations, legal organizations, and a law firm filed an extraordinary writ petition in the Supreme Court of California challenging the state’s death penalty statute as racially discriminatory and […]
Sunday, April 3, 2016 | news
On April 4, 1968, an assassin’s bullet killed Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. — at the time, perhaps the country’s most passionate advocate of nonviolent protest in support of civil rights. When Dr. King was struck, he had been standing on the second-floor balcony of the Lorraine Motel, now part of the National Civil Rights […]
Monday, March 18, 2013 | news
One year ago this Friday the LDF family lost our esteemed President and Director-Counsel John Payton. John’s early death was not only a loss for the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, it was a loss for all who seek justice, are committed to the cause of civil and human rights, and struggle to make […]
Tuesday, June 19, 2012 | news
More than a thousand friends and admirers of the late John A. Payton gathered in mid April at the Washington Convention Center to celebrate his many extraordinary contributions to the cause of justice in American and abroad. We present here the transcript of that service as well as a video tribute John’s A. Payton’s former […]
Monday, October 10, 2011 | news
Lani Guinier, Bennett Boskey Professor of Law, Harvard Law School You would always get straight talk from professor Derrick Bell. When I was a young lawyer, barely six years out of law school, I was at a crossroads. I could stay in the U.S. Department of Justice and take a position in the criminal section […]
Thursday, March 19, 2020 | page
In 1954, the U.S. Supreme Court issued perhaps the most important decision in its history. In Brown v. Board of Education, the Court struck down segregated schools as unconstitutional. At the heart of this decision was a powerful idea: students of different races will thrive together when they learn together. Today, there is no dispute […]
Monday, April 13, 2020 | news
Today, the Charleston Area Justice Ministry (CAJM), the American Civil Liberties Union of South Carolina (ACLU-SC) and the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) sent a letter, signed by over 200 area residents and leaders, to North Charleston Mayor Keith Summey and City Councilmembers calling for an independent and comprehensive racial bias audit […]
Monday, April 2, 2018 | news
Related Case or Issue: Policing Reform Campaign Today, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a decision in Kisela v. Hughes, ruling in favor of an Arizona police officer who shot a woman outside her home in Tucson. Jin Hee Lee, Deputy Director of Litigation at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc., issued the following statement: “The Supreme […]
