Thursday, May 31, 2018 | news
Related Case or Issue: Policing Reform Campaign The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) today joined almost 50 Tulsa civil rights attorneys, religious leaders, members of law enforcement, elected officials and activists in sending a letter to Tulsa Mayor G.T. Bynum and City Council Chair David Patrick calling for reforms to the Tulsa Police […]
Wednesday, April 29, 2020 | news
Today, LDF led 21 other civil rights and education organizations in releasing a joint statement concerning equitable education during the COVID-19 pandemic school closures and beyond. The statement provides promising practices and recommendations to school administrators, teachers, parents, education and civil rights advocates, and policymakers and focuses on five areas requiring attention to ensure student success: […]
Monday, July 27, 2020 | news
The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), and The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights (The Leadership Conference) today sent letters to both the House and Senate Judiciary and Homeland Security Committees, and the House Oversight and Reform Committee calling on them to conduct public oversight hearings […]
Tuesday, August 1, 2017 | news
Read the PDF of our statement here. Civil Rights & Worker Rights Groups Seek to Defend Landmark EEOC Criminal Records Guidance in Texas Federal Lawsuit To protect and expand employment opportunities for millions of Americans with arrest or conviction records, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (“LDF”), the National Employment Law Project, and […]
Tuesday, November 7, 2017 | news
Read a PDF of our statement here. Related Case: Free the Vote for People With Felony Convictions Civil Rights & Criminal Justice Reform Organizations File Amicus Brief in Louisiana Felony Disenfranchisement Case Yesterday, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), The Sentencing Project, and the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), filed an amicus brief in a […]
Tuesday, December 28, 2010 | news
Yesterday, the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, MALDEF, along with other civil rights and civic engagement organizations, issued the following statement regarding the recently released reapportionment data: The organizations listed below are civil rights and civic engagement organizations that intend to have significant involvement in the state and local redistricting processes to be undertaken in 2011 […]
Wednesday, October 25, 2017 | news
Read a PDF of our Statement here. Civil and Worker Rights Groups File Amicus Brief Supporting EEOC Guidance on Employer Use of Criminal Background Checks in Hiring Two leading national civil rights and worker rights groups, a Texas civil rights organization, and a Texan today filed an amicus brief in support of an Equal Employment […]
Thursday, September 13, 2018 | news
The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (“LDF”), along with the National Employment Law Project(“NELP”), Texas State Conference of the NAACP, and Beverly Harrison, a worker once fired because of a criminal conviction, filed an amicus brief in the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. Their brief defends the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s (“EEOC”) Enforcement Guidance […]
Monday, December 11, 2023 | news
Today, a group of civil and voting rights organizations sent a letter urging New York Governor Kathy Hochul to sign the Election Alignment Bill which would move the timing of many local elections across the state to even-numbered years, on the same cycle as federal and state elections. As explained in the letter, New York […]
Wednesday, December 4, 2024 | news
A coalition of state and national civil and voting rights organizations are demanding Mississippi Secretary of State, Michael Watson, to follow Mississippi law, and the Secretary of State’s own published elections calendar, concerning the deadlines for voters to return their mail-in absentee ballots and to cure certain affidavit ballots and rejected absentee ballots in the […]
