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Advocates, Marylanders: We Need the Maryland Voting Rights Act Now

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MEDIA CONTACTS Legal Defense Fund: media@naacpldf.org ACLU: media@aclu-md.org Campaign Legal Center: media@campaignlegalcenter.org Common Cause: mmajikas@commoncause.org General Assembly Must Act to Empower Voters Now Amid Federal Attacks on Voting Rights and an Affordability Crisis Today, a ...

Black Students and Parents Reach Victory in Challenge to Education Department’s Anti-Opportunity “Dear Colleague Letter”

Read a PDF of our statement here.  Today, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF) announced it reached a settlement on behalf of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) challenging the U.S. Department ...

LDF Responds to GAO Report on Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights Layoffs, Calls for Stronger Investment in Civil Rights Enforcement

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This week, a new Government Accountability Office (GAO) report revealed that, under the current administration, the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) failed to adequately enforce civil rights protections in schools while ...

LDF & Seyfarth File Lawsuit on Behalf of Descendant of Black Family Forced Out of Wealthy California Neighborhood Through Fraud and Violence

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Today, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF) joined Seyfarth Shaw LLP in filing a state lawsuit in Alameda County, California on behalf of a descendant of Sidney and Iréne Dearing, who were dispossessed of their home when ...