LDF Opens Application Process for its Second Cohort of the Marshall-Motley Scholars Program

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The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) has announced the opening of applications for the Marshall Motley-Scholars Program’s (MMSP) second cohort. Launched in January 2021, LDF’s groundbreaking commitment, the MMSP, will endow the ...

LDF Issues Statement on U.S. Senate Filibuster of the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act

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Today, members of the United States Senate failed to reach the 60-vote supermajority necessary to end a filibuster of the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act (VRAA), critical federal legislation that will help restore the ...

Coalition of Civil Rights Groups Sends Letter Urging Senators to Vote to Open Debate on the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act.

Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) joined The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, a coalition of more than 230 national organizations, and the 122 undersigned organizations in sending a ...

New York Voting Rights Consortium Issues Statement in Support of Three New York State Ballot Proposals

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The New York Voting Rights Consortium, a group of leading local and national voting-rights advocates,[1] issues this statement in support of New York State ballot proposals 1, 3 and 4. In doing so, we recognize ...

LDF and Coalition of Civil Rights Groups Sent Letter Urging NY State Black, Puerto Rican, Hispanic & Asian Legislative Caucus Members to Support John R. Lewis Voting Rights Act of New York

On November 2, 2021, the New York Voting Rights Consortium—a group of leading local and national voting-rights advocates, including the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund, the Center for Law and Social Justice at ...

LDF Sends Letter in Response to Waller County, TX Final Redistricting Public Hearing

On October 27, 2021, the Waller County, Texas Commissioners Court held the final scheduled public hearing on redistricting.  LDF submitted a supplemental letter in response to the hearing three days later on October 30, 2021, ...

LDF Submits Amicus Brief for Landmark Disability Rights Lawsuit Before Supreme Court

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Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) filed an amicus brief in CVS Pharmacy, Inc. v. Doe, a case before the Supreme Court that will determine whether the Patient Protection and Affordable ...

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