Today, President Joe Biden signed the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, a multibillion-dollar investment in roads, bridges, transportation systems, lead remediation for water, broadband, and other important aspects of the country’s physical infrastructure. In response ...
CONTACT: Ella Wiley, LDF,925-819-0555, ewiley@naacpldf.org Rebecca Seung-Bickley, ACLU of Alabama, 334-561-3829, rseungbickley@aclualabama.org Inga Sarda-Sorensen, ACLU National, 347-514-3984, isarda-sorensen@aclu.org Graeme Crews, SPLC, 334-224-0002, graeme.crews@splcenter.org BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Individual voters joined with civil rights and faith groups today to file a ...
Today, Senator Patrick Leahy announced that he will not seek reelection to the U.S. Senate in the 2022 election. Senator Leahy, who at the time of his election in 1974 was the youngest senator ever ...
Last week, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) filed an amicus brief in the employment discrimination case of EEOC v. International Association of Bridge Structural and Ornamental Ironworkers Local 580, et al. ...
This week, LDF submitted six documents to the South Carolina House and Senate redistricting committees offering testimony and comment on proposed redistricting maps. The documents include testimony by LDF’s Deputy Director of Litigation Leah Aden, ...
Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) sent a letter to urge the Rhode Island General Assembly’s Special Commission on Reapportionment to end the racially discriminatory and antidemocratic practice of prison-based gerrymandering ...
Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), Student Borrower Protection Center (SBPC), and Upstart, a leading artificial intelligence (AI) lending platform, announced the release of the second report from the independent auditor ...
