The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) and coalition partners submitted joint testimony to the South Carolina Senate Judiciary Committee’s Redistricting Subcommittee regarding two proposed Congressional redistricting maps at a Redistricting Hearing this ...
Today, President Biden and Vice-President Harris delivered remarks in Atlanta, Georgia underscoring their support of federal voting rights legislation and articulating why the U.S. Senate needs to take the steps necessary to allow the legislation ...
Today, LDF and coalition partners sent a letter to Louisiana state House and Senate Governmental Affairs Committees urging the legislature to adopt a redistricting map for the Louisiana Board of Elementary and Secondary Education in ...
The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) deeply mourns the loss of Professor Lani Guinier, a trailblazing educator and acclaimed scholar, civil rights lawyer, and former LDF attorney who dedicated her prodigious career ...
Contact: LDF Media, 212-965-2200 / media@naacpldf.org Teresa Candori, National Urban League, 212-558-5362, tcandori@nul.org Marc Banks, NAACP, 443-608-4073, dbanks@naacpnet.org Stephen Peters, The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, 202-466-1887, peters@civilrights.org Rachel Noerdlinger, National Action Network, ...
Today, LDF sent a second letter urging the Rhode Island General Assembly’s Special Commission on Reapportionment to end prison-based gerrymandering. The letter asks the Commission to reallocate all incarcerated people to their home communities for ...
On December 29, 2021, LDF Deputy Director of Litigation Leah C. Aden, South Carolina NAACP President Brenda Murphy, ACLU Senior Staff Attorney Somil Trivedi and ACLU of South Carolina Director of Legal Advocacy submitted joint ...
