Wednesday, October 26, 2016 | news
The NAACP Legal Defense Fund has sent a letter to the Democratic National Committee and the Republican National Committee raising “serious concerns about the current tone and rhetoric concerning voter participation on Election Day.” LDF calls on the leaders of the two major political parties “to demonstrate leadership in uniting to push back against efforts […]
Tuesday, December 19, 2023 | page
2023 Year in Review Voting Rights Education Criminal Justice Economic Justice Justice Above All Podcast Leadership A Year of Transformation As 2023 comes to a close and we march forward toward 2024, we reflect on the triumphs and challenges of the past year. In a major victory for voting rights, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled […]
Wednesday, November 10, 2021 | news
Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), Student Borrower Protection Center (SBPC), and Upstart, a leading artificial intelligence (AI) lending platform, announced the release of the second report from the independent auditor under its groundbreaking agreement to transparently review the fair lending outcomes of Upstart’s model and assess best practices in the […]
Thursday, June 4, 2020 | news
Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) and The Legal Aid Society (LAS) sent a letter to the New York City Law Department, demanding that the New York City Police Department (NYPD) immediately instruct all officers to remove any covering that obstructs public view of their shield numbers and to provide identifying […]
Tuesday, December 22, 2020 | news
Today, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) released a report from the Presidential Commission on Law Enforcement and the Administration of Justice, despite the U.S. District Court’s decision that the Commission had violated the law. In response, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, the […]
Friday, May 1, 2020 | news
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF),the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), and the Alabama Disabilities Advocacy Program (ADAP) filed a federal lawsuit against Alabama Governor Kay Ivey, Secretary of State John Merrill, and others over the state’s lack of safe and accessible voting processes amid the COVID-19 pandemic. […]
Thursday, March 19, 2020 | news
MONTGOMERY, Ala. – Today, the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), Greater Birmingham Ministries, the Alabama State Conference of the NAACP, and the Alabama Disabilities Advocacy Program (ADAP) sent Alabama Secretary of State John Merrill a letter urging him to develop guidance and administrative rules enabling every […]
Thursday, March 28, 2024 | news
Independent Monitor Ends Oversight of Upstart Network Amid Impasse and Offers Guidance for Fair Lending Oversight in Financial Services; Parties Warn of Risk of AI-Driven Bias in Consumer Lending March 27, 2024 | WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, the civil rights law firm Relman Colfax announced that it had concluded its independent oversight of Upstart (NASDAQ: […]
Thursday, October 14, 2021 | news
Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), Project Say Something, and the Alabama NAACP State Conference submitted testimony to the Alabama Department of Education (ALDOE) in opposition to the proposed codification of the Resolution Declaring the Preservation of Intellectual Freedom and Non-Discrimination— a vaguely worded, overly broad, and hastily implemented attack on […]
Monday, April 29, 2024 | news
The Legal Defense Fund, The Antiracism and Community Lawyering Practicum at Boston University School of Law, and the Fred T. Korematsu Center for Law and Equality, filed an amicus brief with the Pennsylvania Supreme Court in support of a Black man named Derek Lee, who is serving a mandatory life without parole (LWOP) sentence for […]
