LDF Responds to President Trump’s Suggestion to Delay the 2020 Election

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This morning, President Trump suggested in a tweet that the 2020 presidential election should be delayed and advanced his false narrative of fraudulent absentee voting. The tweet makes inaccurate claims that 1) absentee voting has ...

The New York Voting Rights Consortium Sends Letter to New York State Officials Expressing Concerns Over the New York State Primary

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The New York Voting Rights Consortium– a non-partisan coalition of civil rights organizations, including the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), LatinoJustice PRLDEF, the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF), and ...

LDF Calls on Internet Service Providers to Make Online Learning Accessible for Students of Color Through the Duration of the COVID-19 Pandemic

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Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) sent a letter to the chief executives of 20 internet service providers requesting they take decisive action to support educational access for hundreds of thousands ...

Civil Rights Groups Call for Strong Guardrails in Hiring Assessment Technologies

WASHINGTON – The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund joined the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, The Leadership Conference Education Fund and more than 23 civil rights, employment, and privacy organizations today in ...

Coalition Letter: Honor Rep. John Lewis by Passing the VRAA and HEROES Act

Dear Member of Congress: The death of Congressman John Lewis, a civil rights giant, has had a profound impact on people around the world. Public officials both national and international have offered moving words of ...

Civil Rights Coalition Urges Congress to Pay Tribute to John Lewis by Passing the HEROES Act and the VRAA

The NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund (LDF) has joined 154 other organizations in calling on Congress to pay tribute to Representative John Lewis (D-GA) by passing the HEROES Act and the Voting Rights Advancement ...

Questions for Attorney General William Barr During House Judiciary Committee Oversight Hearing of the Department of Justice on July 28, 2020

The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. sent a letter to the House Judiciary Committee urging them to ask US Attorney General Barr questions that are critical to the current state of our democracy ...

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