Friday, February 25, 2011 | news
There is nothing quite like a major figure from history speaking to us directly. This is the experience we have when reading Marshalling Justice: The Early Civil Rights Letters of Thurgood Marshall (Amistad, 2011). Thurgood Marshall was the fearless litigator for the NAACP and then the NAACP Legal Defense Fund who led countless courtroom battles […]
Monday, January 16, 2017 | news
In 1986, Coretta Scott King, the late wife of renowned civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr., and a prominent civil rights activist in her own right, wrote a nine-page statement opposing the nomination of Jeff Sessions to a federal district court judgeship. She focused on Sessions’ targetting of voting rights champions, and Dr. King’s […]
Friday, March 30, 2018 | staff
Raymond Audain serves as Senior Counsel at LDF’s New York office, where he focuses on class action and Section 1983 impact litigation. Raymond served as lead counsel in NAACP v. DHS, a federal lawsuit to enjoin the Department of Homeland Security’s efforts to rescind Temporary Protected Status for Haitians in the United States. Raymond is […]
Wednesday, September 3, 2025 | staff
Ray Li is Policy Counsel for education equity at LDF, where he works on ensuring equal educational opportunities for all students. Ray’s federal advocacy work before Congress and the Executive Branch focuses on ensuring fair and equitable administration of federal civil rights laws as well as promoting policies that advance educational equity. Prior to joining […]
Friday, October 5, 2012 | news
MANHATTAN (CN) – A federal judge cited Jay-Z, noted rapper and legal philosopher, in a footnote to her order approving a lawsuit challenging New York City’s practice of sending “vertical patrols” of police to search public housing residents. “In one of his most popular songs, the rapper Jay-Z – who grew up in NYCHA’s Marcy […]
Friday, December 11, 2020 | case-issue
On April 20 2020, the United States Supreme Court ruled in favor of the plaintiff in Ramos v. Louisiana, establishing that the Sixth Amendment’s guarantee of a unanimous jury verdict applies to the states through the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), which filed an amicus brief in this […]
Wednesday, May 8, 2019 | ldf-events
In honor of the 65th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s unanimous decision in Brown v. Board of Education, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) and other civil rights organizations will be hosting a rally at the U.S. Capitol on Thursday, May 16th. Speakers will address the still urgent struggle for education equity as […]
Wednesday, March 13, 2019 | staff
Ralikh Hayes serves as a Community Organizer at the LDF. Prior to joining LDF, Hayes was a housing paralegal and development associate at the Public Justice Center in Baltimore, Maryland. As a young person raised in the heart of Baltimore City, Ralikh began his journey of combating social injustice in 2007 when he served as a […]
Monday, August 31, 2020 | case-issue
LDF RECOMMENDS THE FOLLOWING PRINCIPLES FOR RACIALLY EQUITABLE AND INCLUSIVE SCHOOL REOPENINGS DURING COVID-19 PANDEMIC The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (LDF) believes an equitable and quality public education system, is essential to the success of our multi-racial democracy and must be strengthened and expanded, especially, during the COVID-19 pandemic. Since the historic Supreme […]
Monday, February 18, 2013 | news
In January 2009, when Harris County District Attorney Pat Lykos took office, she lost no time in making good on her campaign promise to restore that department’s integrity, left in tatters by her disgraced immediate predecessor. Among her many innovations, she created programs for the most vulnerable crime victims, pushed for a regional crime lab, improved DNA […]
