Legal Defense Fund

LDF Original Content

How Student Loan Forgiveness Can Help Close the Racial Wealth Gap and Advance Economic Justice

LDF Original Content

Black Justice, Black Joy: Dreaming Bigger in the Fight for Civil Rights

LDF Original Content

Selma’s Power: An Emblem of Hope at a Critical Time for Voting Rights

LDF Original Content

What is a Pattern-or-Practice Investigation?

LDF Original Content

What Florida Stands to Lose From its War on Books and Black History

Justice in Public Safety Project

Framework for Public Safety

Black History Month

The Legacy of Black Judges in America

LDF Reports

Bad Housing Blues: Discrimination in the Housing Choice Voucher Program in Memphis, Tennessee

Voting Rights

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

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Our Thinking

LDF Original Content

POST-2020 REDISTRICTING

Redistricting News and Resources

Local Elections

Voting Rights Resources

COVID-19

Protecting Black Communities from COVID-19 Fallout

Census 2020

Count Me In: Guide to 2020 Census

Voting Rights

Prepared to Vote 2020

Voting Rights

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

Voting Rights

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

Voting Rights

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

Civil Rights

54th Anniversary of Selma March

News

LDF Leadership Featured in HuffPost

News

District Court Rejects Citizenship Status Question for 2020 Census

Education

LDF Argues Against Attempt to Reverse Integrated Education in Hartford

Voting Rights

2018 Midterm Elections Special Bulletin

Equal Justice

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

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