Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) sent letters to every Michigan State Senator opposing two restrictive voting bills, S.B. 303 and S.B. 304, and urging senators to take no further action ...
Today, Janai Nelson, Associate Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), testified before the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution to underscore the significance of the Voting Rights ...
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Florida, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), and Community Justice Project (CJP), with Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP serving as counsel, filed a motion ...
Today, President Joe Biden delivered remarks in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, regarding the urgent need to protect voting rights in the United States, especially as increasingly suppressive legislation is being introduced and passed by state legislators throughout ...
Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund (LDF) submitted testimony in opposition to two omnibus voter suppression bills introduced in the Texas special legislative session that began Thursday, July 8, 2021. Texas House Bill ...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACTS: Don Owens, Lawyers’ Committee, dowens@lawyerscommittee.org, 202.934.1880 Juan Martinez, NAACP Legal Defense Fund, media@naacpldf.org, 212.956.2200 Stephen Peters, The Leadership Conference, peters@civilrights.org, 202.466.1887 Niambé Tomlinson, National Urban League, ntomlinson@nul.org, 585.576-4406 Angelo Greco, National Coalition on Black Civic Participation/Black ...
Today, the 87th Texas legislature started a special session called by Governor Greg Abbott for the explicit purpose of forcing through measures that target Black and Brown Texans. Among these harmful measures is H.B. 3, ...
