Voting Rights Organizations Send Letter to Texas Secretary of State about Expanding Vote-by-Mail Eligibility in Response to COVID-19

Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) joined twenty-six other voting rights organizations in sending a letter to Texas Secretary of State Ruth Hughes urging the expansion of vote-by-mail eligibility in response ...

LDF Submits Comments on the Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing Proposed Rule

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Yesterday, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) submitted comments regarding a proposed Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) rule that redefines affirmatively furthering fair housing (AFFH). LDF opposes this proposed rule, ...

LDF Calls on the U.S. Senate to Pass the Families First Coronavirus Response Act

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On Saturday morning, the U.S. of House of Representatives passed the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (H.R. 6201), an important piece of legislation that provides federal funding and guarantees to begin to address Americans’ increasingly ...

Civil Rights Organizations Urge Congress and State Election Officials to Safeguard the 2020 Election from COVID-19 Threat

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Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) joined the Leadership Conference, Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights, and Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund in writing a letter to Congress, United States ...

LDF Calls on Elected Officials to Condemn Discrimination Linked to COVID-19

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On March 11, the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a global pandemic, further affirming that the virus will likely have a devastating impact on an increasing number of people around the globe for the foreseeable ...

Voting Rights Groups: Elections Must Proceed While States Protect Public Health

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WASHINGTON – The co-chairs of The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights Voting Rights Task Force and other organizations issued the following statement on the state of Louisiana’s decision to postpone its presidential primary, originally ...

LDF Calls for Changes to Maryland’s Blueprint Bill to Address Educational Inequities

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Like all children in the State of Maryland, Black and Brown children in Baltimore City Schools have the right to an adequate public education under the State constitution. Recently, the Blueprint for Maryland’s Future legislation, ...

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