Monday, December 2, 2024 | news
Today, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF) released a new research report, “Digitizing the School-to-Prison Pipeline, Pasco County’s At-Risk Youth Program,” which explains a program by the Pasco County Sheriff’s Office, which categorized certain students as “destined to a life of crime,” and provides recommendations to remedy the concerns outlined in the report. Pasco County is […]
Wednesday, September 25, 2024 | news
The Legal Defense Fund (LDF) issued an open letter to college and university administrators sharing a recent research report from LDF’s Thurgood Marshall Institute (TMI): Police and Protests: The Inequity of Police Responses to Racial Justices Demonstrations, which demonstrated that police were twice as likely to be present, 3.0 times as likely to have an […]
Wednesday, January 12, 2011 | case-update
Today, attorneys from LDF and Project Vote, along with New Orleans attorney Ronald Wilson, issued official notice to Secretary of State Tom Schedler, the state’s Department of Children & Family Services, and its Department of Health & Hospitals regarding the state’s non-compliance with the federal requirements of the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 (NVRA) after citing […]
Friday, May 12, 2023 | news
Today, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF) sent a letter to the Tennessee Department of Transportation (TDOT) addressing serious concerns following reports that the agency is abusing eminent domain to seize farmland from Black farmers in West Tennessee to build a highway to a new Ford electric vehicle plant known as BlueOval City. “Black community members […]
Friday, February 21, 2020 | news
Today the NAACP Legal Defense Fund issued a letter requesting financial technology firm Upstart cooperate with requests for information by US Senate regarding potential discrimination against Historically Black College and University graduates in the firm’s loans. Recent reporting about potentially discriminatory outcomes flowing from the Upstart lending platform raises serious questions about Upstart’s compliance with […]
Monday, August 18, 2014 | news
Update 8/18: Missouri Governor Jay Nixon calls off curfew in Ferguson and says the National Guard will have a limited role. (New York) In a joint statement issued today together with the American Civil Liberties Union and the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund called for a […]
Friday, December 13, 2019 | news
Today the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) joined a statement alongside nine civil rights, consumer protection and industry leaders following the notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) for changes to the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) released by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC). […]
Friday, June 17, 2011 | news
[New York]–Today, the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc. (“LDF”), the Florida Conference of Black State Legislators, and the NAACP Florida State Conference issued a joint letter urging the Attorney General to reject proposed changes to Florida’s Election Laws. The organizations argue that Florida has failed to meet its burden of showing that these […]
Monday, May 10, 2021 | page
Fighting to Eliminate Racial Disparities in COVID-19 Vaccinations and Ensure Vaccine Equity. LDF sent letters to the governors of eight states and mayors of two cities calling on them to take immediate steps to eliminate the stark racial disparities in the distribution of COVID-19 vaccinations. Since COVID-19 has disproportionately impacted communities of color, it is […]
Monday, April 13, 2020 | news
Fighting for Moratoriums on Shut-Offs, Foreclosures, & Evictions during the COVID-19 Pandemic Black people are dying from COVID-19 at a disproportionately high rate. While underlying and pre-existing conditions are part of the cause, ongoing statewide practices like foreclosures, evictions, and utility shut-offs that place people at much higher risk of contracting COVID-19 are also to blame. […]
