The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund celebrated its 25th annual National Equal Justice Award Dinner (NEJAD) last week in New York City. The event raised nearly $2.5 million dollar for LDF’s mission and programs.

By LDF
The American Bar Association has announced that Elaine R. Jones, former President and Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (LDF), will receive the organization’s 2011 Thurgood Marshall Award Saturday.

By The Editors
Jacqueline A. Berrien, Chairwoman of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, has a “sense of urgency” about it’s work – and its showing.

Since taking office last April, Berrien has moved swiftly to reverse the federal agency’s reputation as inefficient in keeping track of claims individuals file with it and ineffective in safeguarding workers’ rights, according to a profile in this week’s National Law Journal.

By Kristen Clarke
As part of its commitment to bringing African Americans and other communities of color into the redistricting process, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) has launched the public education program, “Redrawing the Lines,” with resource and training materials available to community members, activists and policy makers.

On Thursday, November 4, 2010, LDF hosted its 24th annual National Equal Justice Award Dinner. At the gala, LDF honored two extraordinary business leaders, William M. Lewis, Jr., Co-Chairman of Investment Banking at Lazard and LDF Board Co-Chair Emeritus, and William C. Weldon, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer of Johnson & Johnson. On this special occasion, Mr. Lewis and Mr. Weldon each received LDF’s National Equal Justice Award.

By The Editors

Buoyed by an extraordinary success in fund-raising, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (LDF) held its annual National Equal Justice Award Dinner Thursday in New York City in a celebration that exemplified many of the elements of LDF’s past and present.

By The Editors
Julius L. Chambers, a former President and Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund was honored this week in his native North Carolina in perhaps the most fitting way possible: with a two-day conference intended to identify ways to complete “The Unfinished Work” of the struggle for civil rights.

The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (LDF) Scholarship Programs announced this week that they are accepting applications for the 2011-2012 academic year.

The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) will celebrate its 70th anniversary at its 24th annual National Equal Justice Award Dinner (NEJAD) on Thursday, November 4, 2010 at the Hilton New York Hotel and Towers in New York.

Last evening, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals rendered a decision in Farrakhan v. Gregoire that leaves a racially discriminatory disfranchisement law in place.