A storied civil rights legal group that helped desegregate U.S. public schools seven decades ago is suing the U.S. Department ...

The law is named after Kalief Browder, who, as a 16-year-old Black boy, was accused of stealing a backpack and detained on ...

The Columbus NAACP will vote on a new president and other leadership positions on April 2. Sean Walton is the only candidate for president listed on the ballot. Former president Nana Watson's ...

In two letters sent to Mark Zuckerberg today, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF) has removed itself from Meta’s external civil rights advisory group due to concerns over its content moderation and diversity ...

Janai Nelson is president and director-counsel of the Legal Defense Fund (LDF), the nation’s premier civil rights law organization advancing racial ...

Derrick Johnson, the president and CEO of the NAACP, said he believes President Trump is “deliberately dismantling the basic functions” of U.S. democracy. In a post on the social platform X ...

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), one of the nation's most prominent civil rights organizations today, was founded in 1909 by leading Black and white ...