Today, President Joe Biden delivered remarks in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, regarding the urgent need to protect voting rights in the United States, especially as increasingly suppressive legislation is being introduced and passed by state legislators throughout ...
Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund (LDF) submitted testimony in opposition to two omnibus voter suppression bills introduced in the Texas special legislative session that began Thursday, July 8, 2021. Texas House Bill ...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACTS: Don Owens, Lawyers’ Committee, dowens@lawyerscommittee.org, 202.934.1880 Juan Martinez, NAACP Legal Defense Fund, media@naacpldf.org, 212.956.2200 Stephen Peters, The Leadership Conference, peters@civilrights.org, 202.466.1887 Niambé Tomlinson, National Urban League, ntomlinson@nul.org, 585.576-4406 Angelo Greco, National Coalition on Black Civic Participation/Black ...
Today, the 87th Texas legislature started a special session called by Governor Greg Abbott for the explicit purpose of forcing through measures that target Black and Brown Texans. Among these harmful measures is H.B. 3, ...
Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Inc. (LDF), the American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan, and the law firm of Covington & Burlington LLP submitted an amicus brief in support of the plaintiffs-appellants ...
Yesterday, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) and counsel Squire Patton Boggs filed an amicus brief in support of David Hansard, a Black man who was stopped and arrested in Ohio. The officer ...
Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) and a coalition of 28 organizations sent a letter to U.S. Senators Booker, Scott and Graham, and Representatives Bass and Clyburn regarding their efforts to ...
