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 […]
Thursday, August 21, 2025 | news
Today, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF) sent letters to the governors of Mississippi, Tennessee, Louisiana, Ohio, West Virginia, and South Carolina, in response to reports that they are deploying National Guard troops to Washington, D.C., urging them to reverse their decision. The letters correct President Trump’s inaccurate claim that there is a crime emergency in […]
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 […]
Friday, June 13, 2025 | news
Today, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF) submitted comments to the Department of Energy, urging the agency to reverse course on attempts to rescind regulations that prohibit discrimination. This letter comes after the agency issued a direct final rule attempting to walk away from its nondiscrimination obligations under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of […]
Thursday, September 26, 2013 | news
On September 25, 2013, LDF sent a letter to Washington D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray and the thirteen members of the D.C. Council urging them to make changes to the District of Columbia’s property tax lien sales system. Tax lien sales are used by many jurisdictions across the country as a means to collect delinquent property taxes, […]
