Tuesday, April 16, 2024 | news
(Albany, NY) – Today, six organizations supporting the Campaign to End Qualified Immunity in New York are convening in Albany to advocate for the passage of Senate Bill S182 and companion Assembly Bill A710. If passed into law, these bills would eliminate qualified immunity as a defense in state court cases in New York in […]
Monday, May 18, 2020 | news
Today, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. signed onto a set of principles that provide a map for public safety during COVID-19. Recent reports have shown that Black people are suffering from police brutality during the COVID-19 pandemic for non-violent activities and conduct, such as not wearing personal protective equipment (PPE), a face covering, […]
Thursday, April 18, 2024 | news
Nearly 300 leading civil rights, housing, faith, environmental, industry organizations and a local elected official from throughout the nation sent a letter to President Biden, urging his administration to immediately release the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)’s final “Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing” (AFFH) rule. The AFFH rule is a vital tool to ensure […]
Friday, January 5, 2018 | news
Read a PDF of our statement here. Civil Rights, Housing, and Community Development Organizations Call on HUD to Maintain a Critical Fair Housing Tool and Not to Roll Back the Promise of the Fair Housing Act Washington, DC – 76 national civil rights, faith-based, affordable housing and other organizations have voiced their strong opposition to […]
Thursday, February 11, 2016 | news
Important Moments in the Fight Against Unjust Policing and the Need for Police Reform In this second installment of our “Throwback Thursday” (#tbt) “Civil Rights, Equality, and Justice: Then & Now” series for Black History Month 2016, we take a look at two important moments in the fight against unjust policing and the need for police […]
Thursday, February 18, 2016 | news
Two Significant Cases in the Fight to Promote Educational Desegregation and Inclusion: Green and Fisher II In this third installment of our “Throwback Thursday” (#tbt) “Civil Rights, Equality, and Justice: Then & Now” series for Black History Month 2016, we take a look at two important cases in the fight to promote educational desegregation and inclusion. […]
Thursday, February 25, 2016 | news
The Fight for Economic Justice: Griggs v. Duke Power Co. and the Cancellation of Baltimore’s Red Line In this final installment of our “Throwback Thursday” (#tbt) “Civil Rights, Equality, and Justice: Then & Now” series for Black History Month 2016, we address economic justice. First, we look back at LDF’s litigation of Griggs v. Duke Power (1971), one of […]
Thursday, May 21, 2020 | news
Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) joined fourteen other civil rights, consumer protection, and industry leaders in issuing a statement condemning the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC)’s newly announced changes to rules that enforce the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA). The changes weaken the OCC’s commitment to the CRA, which was enacted […]
Friday, September 7, 2012 | news
Activists cry foul as Republican-led legislatures plan showdown with US government over key provision of Voting Rights Act A rash of legal challenges to a core piece of US civil rights legislation is threatening the foundations of nearly half a century of laws to combat racial discrimination. Republican-led state legislatures from Florida and Texas to […]
Tuesday, August 16, 2022 | page
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