Today, the U.S. Department of Education sent letters to K-12 state education agencies threatening to withhold federal funding from public schools unless they verify that they comply with their incorrect interpretation of Title VI of ...
Today, the Legal Defense Fund’s (LDF) Thurgood Marshall Institute (TMI) released a new report, Black Educators as Essential Workers for Educational Equity, that uses the experiences of Black public-school teachers to inform policy recommendations for ...
The Legal Defense Fund (LDF) today applauded yesterday’s historic, record-setting speech by U.S. Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ), in which he condemned the Trump Administration’s sweeping rollback of civil rights and urged action to defend democracy. ...
CONTACT: Ella Wiley, ACLU, media@aclu.org, 925-819-0555 Aleisha Flores, Advancing Justice – AAJC, aflores@advancingjustice-aajc.org Adam Ginsburg, LWVUS, aginsburg@lwv.org Rebecca Autrey, Brennan Center for Justice at NYU Law, autreyr@brennan.law.nyu.edu Troi Barnes, LDF, media@naacpldf.org Dominic Hawkins, NAACP, communications@naacpnet.org ...
The Legal Defense Fund (LDF) today condemned an Executive Order issued last night by President Donald Trump that seeks to impose federal control over Washington D.C.’s local affairs. LDF Associate Director-Counsel Todd A. Cox issued ...
On March 27, President Donald Trump released an executive order, misnamed “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History,” which advances pseudo-scientific ideas on race, and attacks funding for programs and institutions that preserve and steward ...
The Legal Defense Fund (LDF) condemns an Executive Order issued yesterday by President Donald Trump that seeks to sharply curtail the fundamental right to vote for millions of Americans. The order requires individuals to show ...
