Wednesday, January 20, 2016 | news
On January 19, 2016, Sherrilyn Ifill, President and Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), sent a letter to the Maryland State Senate and the Maryland House of Delegates urging them to restore the voting rights of people with felony convictions by overriding Governor Hogan’s veto of Senate Bill 340 (S.B. 340) […]
Tuesday, February 1, 2022 | news
Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) sent a letter to the Louisiana State Senate and the Louisiana Senate and House Governmental Affairs Committees urging them to comply with Section Two of the Voting Rights Act in light of the recent ruling in Milligan v. Merrill. In January, a panel of federal […]
Friday, April 3, 2020 | news
Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) sent a letter to Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards to express concern about the lack of school meals and educational instruction provided to schoolchildren since schools closed on March 13, 2020, amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. These failures have a disproportionate impact on Black schoolchildren, many […]
Wednesday, May 21, 2025 | news
The Legal Defense Fund (LDF) denounces the two assault charges announced Monday by the acting U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey against Representative LaMonica McIver. LDF further urges law enforcement officials to make the just and prudent decision to drop the charges. On May 9, Representative McIver, along with Representatives Robert Menendez Jr. […]
Monday, March 13, 2017 | news
NAACP Legal Defense Fund Urges Kentucky Governor Matt Bevin to Veto “Blue Lives Matter” Bill The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) sent a letter to Kentucky Governor Matt Bevin urging him to veto H.B. 14, which would include peace officers and other first responders within the coverage of Kentucky’s hate crimes statute. […]
Wednesday, November 26, 2014 | news
Today, LDF called on the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to strengthen tools to assist localities in overcoming residential segregation. Housing segregation and discrimination still exists in countless jurisdictions around the nation, with extremely negative consequences. In The Making of Ferguson, Richard Rothstein powerfully describes how decades of federal, state and local housing […]
Wednesday, April 26, 2017 | news
NAACP Legal Defense Fund Urges House Judiciary Committee to Oppose the Proposed Thin Blue Line Bill The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) sent a letter today to the House Judiciary Committee urging members to oppose the Thin Blue Line Act, H.B. 115, which would add the killing or attempted killing of a […]
Monday, June 27, 2022 | news
Today, the Legal Defense Fund, Gulfport Branch of the NAACP, Southern Poverty Law Center, and One Voice sent a letter to the Harrison County, Mississippi School Board regarding its plans for the post-2020 redistricting cycle. The letter reminds the School Board of its affirmative obligations to comply with the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution’s […]
Friday, June 3, 2022 | news
Yesterday, by a supermajority vote of 106-43, the New York State Assembly joined with the New York State Senate and passed the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Act of New York, a transformative bill that will increase access to the vote for millions of New Yorkers, set a new standard for empowering Black and Brown […]
Thursday, April 25, 2019 | page
The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), along with the Florida State Conference of the NAACP, has submitted a number of letters to the Florida House and Senate urging legislators to oppose bills under consideration that would significantly undermine Amendment 4’s historic mandate to expand voting rights in Florida. During the November 2018 […]
