The Legal Defense Fund (LDF) mourns the loss of Charles “Charlie” B. Rangel, former U.S. Representative and congressman for New York City’s 13th Congressional district representing Harlem and its neighboring communities. A Harlem native, army ...
Today marks 5 years since former police officer Derek Chauvin murdered George Floyd, a 46-year-old Black man in broad daylight in Minneapolis. Chauvin is currently serving a sentence of 22.5 years following criminal convictions under 18 U.S.C. § 242 for willfully ...
Today, LDF sent a letter to the New York City Council Committee on Finance, Committee on Mental Health, Disabilities and Addiction, and Committee on Health urging to Council to prioritize funding for community-based responders for ...
On May 15, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF) and the NAACP sent a letter to the U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) urging the agency to uphold its civil rights obligations during and after national ...
Today, the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced that it will open a Title VI investigation into the admissions process for the Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology (TJ). ...
Legal Defense Fund (LDF) President and Director-Counsel Janai Nelson issued the following statement in response to the deadly shooting late last night outside the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, DC. “We are devastated and outraged ...
Today, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF) sent a letter to Brian Cornell, CEO of Target, urging reversal of the company’s decision to retreat from its diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility policies. The letter to Target ...
