Monday, February 22, 2021 | news
Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) sent joint letters to police departments in Tulsa, Oklahoma; North Charleston, South Carolina; Ferguson, Missouri; and Louisville, Kentucky. The letters call for a full and thorough investigation into any officers that were involved in the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol and were […]
Thursday, July 15, 2021 | news
Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) sent letters to every Michigan State Senator opposing two restrictive voting bills, S.B. 303 and S.B. 304, and urging senators to take no further action to consider or enact these bills. Both have already passed in the Senate, passed in the House with amendments and […]
Tuesday, February 12, 2019 | news
The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) today sent letters to both the New Jersey Division of Civil Rights and the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association (NJSIAA) following up on a December incident at Buena Regional High School where Andrew Johnson, a Black high school wrestler, was forced by a referee to […]
Wednesday, May 25, 2022 | news
Today, the Legal Defense Fund sent letters to the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee in support of the nomination of Nancy Abudu to serve as a judge on the Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit and the confirmation of Nusrat J. Choudhury to the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York (“EDNY”). […]
Wednesday, January 5, 2022 | news
Today, LDF sent a second letter urging the Rhode Island General Assembly’s Special Commission on Reapportionment to end prison-based gerrymandering. The letter asks the Commission to reallocate all incarcerated people to their home communities for the purposes of redistricting, including people serving long sentences. Recently, some commission members have suggested excluding people who are serving […]
Friday, November 12, 2021 | news
Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) sent a letter to urge the Rhode Island General Assembly’s Special Commission on Reapportionment to end the racially discriminatory and antidemocratic practice of prison-based gerrymandering when drawing its maps for this current redistricting cycle. Prison-based gerrymandering is the practice of counting incarcerated people at their […]
Thursday, September 16, 2021 | news
Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) sent a letter to the Michigan Board of State Canvassers urging them to reject the proposed summary of purpose for the “Secure MI Vote” initiative petition. The proposed summary, as published on September 2 2021 on the Board of State Canvassers website, erroneously suggests that […]
Friday, September 17, 2021 | news
The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) sent a letter to the Iberia Parish, Louisiana Council, urging members to reverse the eight recent polling place closures, and support the addition of an early voting site in Iberia Parish for the remaining 2021 elections. These polling place closures would burden voters ahead of the […]
Wednesday, February 15, 2023 | news
Today, the Legal Defense Fund sent a letter to U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland and Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg regarding federal solutions to reduce police violence in traffic encounters. LDF’s letter supports the demands of Memphis advocates to prevent additional police violence against Black people following the killing of Tyre Nichols by members of the Memphis […]
Wednesday, May 31, 2023 | news
Amidst the ongoing wave of states passing anti-truth legislation, and with the recent passage of SB 17 (an anti-DEI bill) and SB 18 (an anti-tenure bill) in the Texas legislature, LDF sent a letter this afternoon signed by our president and director-counsel Janai Nelson to Governor Abbott urging him to veto the bills. The letter […]
