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Educational Equity

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Voting Rights Can't Wait

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LDF Issues Statement on Misleading References to Brown v. Board of Education by Supreme Court Justices

Leadership

Sherrilyn Ifill to Step Down from LDF Leadership; Janai Nelson to become LDF's Next President and Director-Counsel

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Five Times Police Used Qualified Immunity to Get Away with Misconduct and Violence

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LDF Report

Democracy Defended: Findings From the 2020 Election

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Power on the Line(s): Making Redistricting Work for Us

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Learn More about LDF's Work to Protect Voting Rights and Support Black Political Engagement.

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Census 2020

Count Me In: Guide to 2020 Census

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Prepared to Vote 2020

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Voting with a Felony Conviction in FL

Equal Justice

Natural Hair Discrimination

Judicial Nominees

LDF Urges Senate to End Use of Consent Packages that Fast-Track Judicial Nominees

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LDF Testifies Before Congress on Voter Suppression Crisis Post Shelby

Congress

LDF Supports Commission on Reparations for African Americans

Voting Rights

LDF Sends Letter Urging Jeff Davis County to Reopen Polling Place Precinct

Equal Justice

LDF Releases Water/Color: A Study of Race and the Water Affordability Crisis in America’s Cities

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LDF Testifies on Major Election Reform and Voting Rights Bill Before Congress

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54th Anniversary of Selma March

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District Court Rejects Citizenship Status Question for 2020 Census

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LDF Argues Against Attempt to Reverse Integrated Education in Hartford

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2018 Midterm Elections Special Bulletin

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LDF Responds to Report of Efforts to Undermine Legal Status of Transgender People

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LDF Releases Water/Color: A Study of Race and the Water Affordability Crisis in America’s Cities

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LDF Leadership Featured in HuffPost

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LDF Argues Against Attempt to Reverse Integrated Education in Hartford

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