LDF and Student Borrower Protection Center Send Letter to Financial Technology Firm over Equal Credit Opportunity Act and Fair Housing Act Violations

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Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) and the Student Borrower Protection Center (SBPC) sent a demand letter to financial technology firm Upstart explaining how the firm’s algorithm likely violates the Equal ...

LDF Files Complaint Against City of Louisville for Military-Style Response to Peaceful Protests

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Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), the Kentucky American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU-KY), and law firm Emery Celli Brinckerhoff Abady Ward & Maazel LLP (ECBAWM) filed a complaint against the City ...

LDF Responds to President Trump’s Suggestion to Delay the 2020 Election

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This morning, President Trump suggested in a tweet that the 2020 presidential election should be delayed and advanced his false narrative of fraudulent absentee voting. The tweet makes inaccurate claims that 1) absentee voting has ...

The New York Voting Rights Consortium Sends Letter to New York State Officials Expressing Concerns Over the New York State Primary

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The New York Voting Rights Consortium– a non-partisan coalition of civil rights organizations, including the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), LatinoJustice PRLDEF, the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF), and ...

LDF Calls on Internet Service Providers to Make Online Learning Accessible for Students of Color Through the Duration of the COVID-19 Pandemic

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Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) sent a letter to the chief executives of 20 internet service providers requesting they take decisive action to support educational access for hundreds of thousands ...

Civil Rights Groups Call for Strong Guardrails in Hiring Assessment Technologies

WASHINGTON – The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund joined the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, The Leadership Conference Education Fund and more than 23 civil rights, employment, and privacy organizations today in ...

Coalition Letter: Honor Rep. John Lewis by Passing the VRAA and HEROES Act

Dear Member of Congress: The death of Congressman John Lewis, a civil rights giant, has had a profound impact on people around the world. Public officials both national and international have offered moving words of ...

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