LDF and Leadership Conference Request DOJ’s Plans to Address Russian Government’s Efforts to Manipulate the 2020 Election

Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) and the Leadership Conference sent a letter to Attorney General William Barr requesting information about what steps the DOJ has taken undertaken, or intends to ...

LDF Writes Letter to Harris County Clerk Over Concerns Surrounding Long Voting Lines; Demands Issue is Addressed before 2020 Presidential Election

Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) wrote a letter to Harris County Clerk and Chief Election Officer Diane Trautman over concerns surrounding the extremely long lines seen at polling places during ...

LDF’s Director of State Advocacy Testifies Before the Maryland House of Delegates on the Need to Amend HB 1221

On March 3rd, 2020, LDF’s Director of State Advocacy and Deputy Director of Policy, Monique Dixon, testified before the Maryland House of Delegates on the need to expand House Bill 1221. HB 1221 would amend ...

LDF Submits Written Testimony in Support of the New York Voting Rights Act

Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) submitted written testimony in support of New York State Senate Bill S7528, also known as the New York Voting Rights Act (NYVRA). The NYVRA would ...

LDF’s Janai Nelson in Essence Op-Ed: The Lodestar Is Always Justice

Source: Essence “These challenges and victories of the past decade — and the broader history of the struggle for racial justice in America — illustrate that we must hold fast to the belief that justice ...

LDF Calls on The U.S. Senate to Immediately Take Up The Emmett Till Antilynching Act

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Yesterday, the U.S. House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed H.R. 35, the Emmett Till Antilynching Act. The bill, which passed by a vote of 410-4, makes lynching a federal hate crime. The NAACP Legal Defense and ...

Ohio Supreme Court Reverses Glen E. Bates’ Conviction and Death Sentence; Agrees that Racially-Biased Jury Deprived Black Defendant of Fair Trial

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Today, the Ohio Supreme Court announced its decision to reverse Glen E. Bates’ 2016 conviction and death sentence and grant him a new trial due to the ineffectiveness of Mr. Bates’ counsel at trial. The ...

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