Today, LDF and coalition partners sent a letter to Louisiana state House and Senate Governmental Affairs Committees urging the legislature to adopt a redistricting map for the Louisiana Board of Elementary and Secondary Education in ...
The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) deeply mourns the loss of Professor Lani Guinier, a trailblazing educator and acclaimed scholar, civil rights lawyer, and former LDF attorney who dedicated her prodigious career ...
Contact: LDF Media, 212-965-2200 / media@naacpldf.org Teresa Candori, National Urban League, 212-558-5362, tcandori@nul.org Marc Banks, NAACP, 443-608-4073, dbanks@naacpnet.org Stephen Peters, The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, 202-466-1887, peters@civilrights.org Rachel Noerdlinger, National Action Network, ...
Today, LDF sent a second letter urging the Rhode Island General Assembly’s Special Commission on Reapportionment to end prison-based gerrymandering. The letter asks the Commission to reallocate all incarcerated people to their home communities for ...
On December 29, 2021, LDF Deputy Director of Litigation Leah C. Aden, South Carolina NAACP President Brenda Murphy, ACLU Senior Staff Attorney Somil Trivedi and ACLU of South Carolina Director of Legal Advocacy submitted joint ...
Lawsuit: Gerrymandered State House Map Intentionally Discriminates Against Black Communities COLUMBIA, S.C. — Civil rights groups have filed a legal challenge over South Carolina’s new racially gerrymandered state House district map, charging it intentionally discriminates ...
Today, former police officer Kimberly Potter was found guilty on charges of first- and second-degree manslaughter in the April 2021 fatal shooting of Daunte Wright in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota. In response, Puneet Cheema, NAACP Legal ...
