Document Requests Sent to Maine and New Hampshire Secretaries of State Washington, D.C. – The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) today sent Freedom of Information Act requests to two states seeking documents related ...
Read the PDF of our statement here. Late yesterday, Alabama Governor Kay Ivey signed into law the Definition of Moral Turpitude Act, restoring voting rights to thousands of citizens who were previously disenfranchised. Until now, Alabama ...
Read the PDF of our statement here. Earlier today, researchers at UCLA and Penn State released Southern Schools More Than Half a Century After the Civil Rights Revolution, a new report reviewing segregation trends in Southern ...
Washington, D.C. – The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) calls on Congress to reject the President’s proposed fiscal year 2018 budget for the Education Department. The budget drastically cuts funding intended to support ...
LDF’s Director of Policy Todd Cox Testifies at EEOC Hearing Earlier today, LDF Policy Director Todd Cox testified before the House of Representatives Committee on Education and the Workforce’s Subcommittee on Workforce Protections. The Subcommittee ...
Read the PDF of our statement here. Today, the Baltimore Police Department (BPD) brought internal charges against five of the officers responsible for killing Freddie Gray, with three of them facing termination, according to the Baltimore ...
Read the PDF of our statement here. Over the weekend, Mississippi state legislator Karl Oliver posted a message on Facebook suggesting that officials who attempt to take down Confederate monuments “should be lynched.” NAACP Legal Defense and ...
