In response to County election departments across Texas receiving a recent flood of formal challenges by third-party actors questioning whether voter registrations are valid, LDF and partners at the Texas Civil Rights Project, CLC, and ...
Today, LDF and civil rights and voting rights groups sent a letter to Alabama Secretary of State Wes Allen, the Board of Registrars for all 67 counties, and Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall informing them ...
Today, President Joe Biden signed a proclamation to establish the site of the 1908 Springfield Race Riot as a national monument on the 116th anniversary of the brutal attack that galvanized members of the Black ...
Today marks ten years since Michael Brown was killed by a Ferguson, Missouri police officer. In response to this, Legal Defense Fund (LDF) Director of Strategic Initiatives Jin Hee Lee issued the following statement: “Our ...
Last week, the 5th US Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in Petteway v. Galveston County that Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act does not permit multiracial coalitions of voters to challenge racially discriminatory redistricting plans. ...
Today marks the 59th anniversary of the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (VRA), signed into law by President Lyndon Johnson on August 6, 1965. Hailed as one of the most critical civil ...
Today, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF) announced Black Voters on the Rise – an interdisciplinary initiative that works to defend and advance the rights of Black voters and the promise of a free and fair ...
