Sunday, July 28, 2013 | case-update
Today LDF’s Education Group submitted a letter to the Department of Education’s Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (OSERS) on racial disparities related to the identification, placement, and discipline of children of color with disabilities. Our letter responded to a request for recommendations for action the Department should take to remedy these disparities. LDF’s key recommendations […]
Monday, June 16, 2014 | news
(New York, NY)—Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (NAACP LDF) along with The Legal Aid Society called on Quinnipiac University to retract a recent poll regarding policing in New York City public housing buildings due to an inherently flawed and misleading premise. In Poll Question No. 17, pollsters asked: “Do you think […]
Tuesday, March 28, 2023 | news
Today, the leaders of the Legal Defense Fund (LDF), the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), Color of Change, the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, NAACP, National Action Network (NAN), and the National Urban League sent a letter to President Biden urging him to clearly and […]
Thursday, June 8, 2017 | news
Read the PDF of our staement here. NAACP Legal Defense Fund Urges NY State Assembly Members to Oppose Bill Expanding Hate Crime Coverage to Law Enforcement The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) sent a letter to New York State Assembly Members urging them to oppose A. 2962-A, which would unnecessarily and unreasonably expand New York’s hate […]
Thursday, April 17, 2025 | news
This week, as New York state’s budget continues to be held up, Governor Kathy Hochul pursues a rollback of vital policies regarding reforms that help ensure proper access to evidence for people facing criminal charges in New York, policies that are supported by several state legislators and would help shield Black communities from disproportionate harm. […]
Friday, May 23, 2025 | news
Today, LDF sent a letter to the New York City Council Committee on Finance, Committee on Mental Health, Disabilities and Addiction, and Committee on Health urging to Council to prioritize funding for community-based responders for people with behavioral and mental health disabilities and those in crisis in the Executive Budget for Fiscal Year 2026. As […]
Wednesday, November 18, 2020 | news
Read the full letter here Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) wrote a letter urging Mississippi Governor Tate Reeves to re-institute a statewide moratorium on evictions and foreclosures on behalf of the thousands Black individuals and families impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. Mississippi is the third most housing insecure state in […]
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 […]
