Today, Senator Patrick Leahy announced that he will not seek reelection to the U.S. Senate in the 2022 election. Senator Leahy, who at the time of his election in 1974 was the youngest senator ever ...
Last week, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) filed an amicus brief in the employment discrimination case of EEOC v. International Association of Bridge Structural and Ornamental Ironworkers Local 580, et al. ...
This week, LDF submitted six documents to the South Carolina House and Senate redistricting committees offering testimony and comment on proposed redistricting maps. The documents include testimony by LDF’s Deputy Director of Litigation Leah Aden, ...
Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) sent a letter to urge the Rhode Island General Assembly’s Special Commission on Reapportionment to end the racially discriminatory and antidemocratic practice of prison-based gerrymandering ...
Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), Student Borrower Protection Center (SBPC), and Upstart, a leading artificial intelligence (AI) lending platform, announced the release of the second report from the independent auditor ...
The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) has announced the opening of applications for the Marshall Motley-Scholars Program’s (MMSP) second cohort. Launched in January 2021, LDF’s groundbreaking commitment, the MMSP, will endow the ...
Today, members of the United States Senate failed to reach the 60-vote supermajority necessary to end a filibuster of the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act (VRAA), critical federal legislation that will help restore the ...
