FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 5, 2023 CONTACT: Phoebe Plagens, LDF, pplagens@naacpldf.org Inga Sarda-Sorensen, ACLU National, 347-514-3984, isarda-sorensen@aclu.org Jose Vazquez, ACLU of Alabama, jvazquez@aclualabama.org Court orders special master to redraw map to ensure Black voters have ...
On Saturday, a white supremacist shot and killed three Black people in a targeted attack at a store in Jacksonville, Florida, before killing himself. Law enforcement officials said the assailant “hated Black people” and used ...
Today, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF) joined hosts National Action Network and Drum Major Institute at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. to mark the 60th anniversary of the March on Washington for Jobs and ...
This week, a referendum campaign by the Cop City Vote coalition faces a new hurdle: the City of Atlanta has revealed it will engage in a signature matching process that courts have repeatedly found to ...
Today, a multi-racial group of students, families, and alumni of Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology (TJ) denounced a petition filed by the Pacific Legal Foundation, a conservative legal advocacy group, on behalf ...
ATLANTA — A federal court in the Northern District of Georgia issued rulings today in response to emergency motions filed by civil rights groups to lift restrictions put in place by Georgia’s anti-voter law, Senate ...
The Legal Defense Fund (LDF) remembers former Board member Clarence Avant, a giant in the entertainment industry, who passed away on Sunday in Los Angeles, California. He was 92. Avant, who overcame immense poverty and ...
