NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc.

Justice in Public Safety Project

Justice Denied: A Call for a New Grand Jury Investigation into the Killing of Breonna Taylor

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Count Every Vote

LDF Challenges President Trump and the Trump Campaign's Attempt to Overturn the Election by Disenfranchising Black Voters in Michigan

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#TruthBeTold

LDF Files First Legal Challenge to the Trump Administration's "Executive Order on Combating Race and Sex Stereotyping”

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LDF Mourns the Loss of Drew S. Days III, Revered Civil Rights Attorney and Law Professor, Former U.S. Solicitor General

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Sherrilyn Ifill, Civil Rights Superhero

Glamour Magazine Woman of the Year

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This Defining Moment

A Conversation with Sherrilyn Ifill and Bryan Stevenson

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2020 Election

Enter the LDF Voting Rights 2020 Microsite

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Law Enforcement Accountability

Use LDF's Police Union Contract Toolkit Today!

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COVID-19 Moratoriums

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Justice in Public Safety

Sherrilyn Ifill on 60 Minutes Examines How America Reached its Current Policing Crisis and What We Must Do Next

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Justice for George Floyd

LDF Releases Demands to Governors, Mayors, and Police Chiefs for the Protection of Protesters

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ldf at work

Protecting Black Communities from COVID-19 Fallout

COVID-19

Protecting Black Communities from COVID-19 Fallout

An LDF 2020 Election Microsite

Voting Rights 2020

An LDF 2020 Election Microsite

Count Me In: Guide to 2020 Census

Census 2020

Count Me In: Guide to 2020 Census

Prepared to Vote 2020

Voting Rights

Prepared to Vote 2020

Voting with a Felony Conviction in FL

Voting Rights

Voting with a Felony Conviction in FL

Natural Hair Discrimination

Equal Justice

Natural Hair Discrimination

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

Judicial Nominees

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

LDF Testifies Before Congress on Voter Suppression Crisis Post Shelby

Voting Rights

LDF Testifies Before Congress on Voter Suppression Crisis Post Shelby

LDF Supports Commission on Reparations for African Americans

Congress

LDF Supports Commission on Reparations for African Americans

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

Voting Rights

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

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

Equal Justice

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

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

Voting Rights

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

54th Anniversary of Selma March

Civil Rights

54th Anniversary of Selma March

LDF Leadership Featured in HuffPost

News

LDF Leadership Featured in HuffPost

District Court Rejects Citizenship Status Question for 2020 Census

News

District Court Rejects Citizenship Status Question for 2020 Census

LDF Argues Against Attempt to Reverse Integrated Education in Hartford

Education

LDF Argues Against Attempt to Reverse Integrated Education in Hartford

2018 Midterm Elections Special Bulletin

Voting Rights

2018 Midterm Elections Special Bulletin

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

Equal Justice

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

recent news

December 01, 2020

NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund and Student Borrower Protection Center Announce Fair Lending Testing Agreement with Upstart Network

November 30, 2020

LDF Files Amicus Brief Supporting Rehearing En Banc in Lawsuit Challenging the Baltimore Police Department’s Aerial Surveillance Program

November 30, 2020

Voting Rights Advocates Urge Georgia Secretary of State to Remove Barriers to the Ballot Ahead of January Senate Runoffs

November 25, 2020

Federal Court Allows LDF’s Lawsuit Challenging Louisville’s Militaristic Response to Peaceful Protests to Continue

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