Wednesday, September 15, 2021 | news
Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) released its highly anticipated Democracy Defended report, which documents and analyzes election-related activities undertaken by LDF during the 2020 election season, provides documentation of barriers faced by Black voters in target states for LDF’s Prepared to Vote (PTV) and Voting Rights Defender (VRD) projects, and […]
Wednesday, June 30, 2010 | news
(New York, New York) – Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) released Independent Redistricting Commissions: Reforming Redistricting Without Reversing Progress Toward Racial Equality. The report provides an overview of independent redistricting commissions and examines their potential impact on minority voting rights. The report notes that our nation’s unfortunate history of persistent […]
Tuesday, September 28, 2021 | news
Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) released its recommendations for reopening schools while prioritizing both public health as well as racial equity. The recommendations—including policies such as a universal mask mandate, a requirement that all adults working at schools are vaccinated, and continuous data-driven engagement between schools and their communities—are intended to ensure […]
Monday, August 31, 2020 | news
Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) released a set of principles for states and localities to adopt to ensure racially equitable and inclusive school re-openings as the nation continues to struggle with the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. To date, cities and states have taken differing approaches to closures, testing, mask-wearing requirements, and […]
Friday, October 1, 2021 | news
The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) has released its annual SCOTUS Preview, an analysis of some of the important civil rights cases before the United States Supreme Court during the upcoming Term, which begins October 4. Since 1940, LDF has served on the front lines of civil rights litigation efforts. Only the […]
Saturday, March 6, 2021 | news
Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF)’s Thurgood Marshall Institute (TMI) released its executive summary of Democracy Defended, a forthcoming report that details critical findings from monitoring the 2020 election season in key states across the South. The executive summary of this Spring’s full report provides a preview of the Democracy Defended ’s five key findings: Intimidation against Black voters was […]
Friday, June 5, 2020 | news
Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) released demands for policing reform to federal elected officials, governors, mayors, and police chiefs. The recent killings of Black Americans, including Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, and George Floyd, by former and current police officers have further exposed the need for immediate police accountability and reforms. […]
Wednesday, May 22, 2019 | news
Study Explores the Intersection of Water Affordability and Race Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) released an overview of a forthcoming report by the Thurgood Marshall Institute exploring the water affordability crisis and its devastating impact on Black communities. Water/Color: A Study of Race and the Water Affordability Crisis in America’s […]
Thursday, January 27, 2022 | news
Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc.’s (LDF) Thurgood Marshall Institute (TMI) released Pretrial Justice Without Money Bail Or Risk Assessments: Principles for Racially Just Bail Reform, a new report that connects the dots on needed reforms for pretrial legal systems to improve fairness and racial justice while serving the interests of public safety […]
Thursday, September 29, 2022 | news
Today, the Legal Defense Fund’s (LDF) Thurgood Marshall Institute (TMI) released The Truth Behind Crime Statistics, a critical new report that explores how current politicized discussions of crime ignore or distort crime data to intensify public fear and debunks false narratives used to explain the 2020 nationwide increase in homicides. As the report details, requiring cash bail, the […]
