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LDF Statement on Release of Grand Jury Audio Recordings in Breonna Taylor Case

Read a PDF of our statement here. Today, Kentucky...

02 October 2020admvfj

LDF Demands Grand Jury Transcripts Be Released in Breonna Taylor case

LDF President and Director-Counsel Sherrilyn Ifill appeared on MSNBC’s...

24 September 2020admvfj
A memorial in Louisville, Ky., Sept. 23, 2020, with a portrait of Breonna Taylor, who was shot and killed by Louisville police on March 13, 2020, when they rammed in the door of her apartment after midnight to execute a search warrant. (Xavier Burrell/The New York Times)

Grand Jury Fails to Indict All Three Police Officers in Killing of Breonna Taylor

Read a PDF of our statement here. Today, a grand...

24 September 2020admvfj

LDF Opposes Unions’ Efforts to Prevent Police Department Misconduct Disclosures

On Monday, September 14, the NAACP Legal Defense and...

30 August 2020elevationweb

When An Arrest Becomes A Death Sentence

As the coronavirus continues to spread in the U.S....

21 July 2020elevationweb

LDF Challenges Repeal of NC Racial Justice Act

On Friday, June 5, 2020, North Carolina’s Supreme Court...

06 June 2020elevationweb

NC Supreme Court Issues Landmark Decision on Racial Discrimination in Death Penalty Cases

Read a PDF of our statement here. Yesterday, North Carolina’s...

06 June 2020admvfj

LDF launches microsite for #FairJuries in a class-action lawsuit against DA in Mississippi

On November 18, 2019, a group of Black Mississippians...

02 March 2020admvfj

ABA-LDF Joint Statement on Eliminating Bias in the Criminal Justice System

Read the PDF of our joint statement here. The American...

15 July 2015elevationweb

Sherrilyn Ifill on Prosecutorial Misconduct in the Michael Brown case

The prosecutors in the grand jury proceeding against Darren...

05 January 2015elevationweb