Today, in a promising exercise of the President’s clemency authority, the Biden administration issued a number of pardons and commutations, and announced a series of investments to support post-incarceration re-entry programs and other means of ...
Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) sent a letter to the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee in support of Natasha Merle’s nomination to the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York ...
The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (LDF) sent a letter to Mississippi High School Activities Association expressing concern regarding grooming policies that disproportionately target and penalize Black children for wearing their hair in culturally ...
Yesterday, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) concluded its investigation of the Mississippi State Penitentiary known as Parchman, finding that there is reasonable cause to believe that the state of Mississippi routinely violated the constitutional ...
Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) announced its second 10-person cohort (bios below) of the Marshall-Motley Scholars Program (MMSP). Launched in January 2021, LDF’s groundbreaking pipeline program will endow the South ...
For more information contact: Chris Ford: media@naacpldf.org Liz Iacobucci: liacobucci@commoncause.org Carolina Gonzalez: cgonzalez@latinojustice.org Sarai Bejarano: sbejarano@latinojustice.org Meghan Holden: mholden@acluct.org Yanidsi Velez: yvelez@hispanicfederation.org HARTFORD, CT – Today, lawmakers from the Connecticut legislature as well as civil ...
Today, the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, ACLU of Connecticut, Common Cause in Connecticut, Hispanic Federation, LatinoJustice PRDLEF, and over 20 additional civil rights, racial justice, faith-based, labor, and service organizations sent a letter urging elected ...
