Civil Rights Coalition Urges Congress to Pay Tribute to John Lewis by Passing the HEROES Act and the VRAA

The NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund (LDF) has joined 154 other organizations in calling on Congress to pay tribute to Representative John Lewis (D-GA) by passing the HEROES Act and the Voting Rights Advancement ...

Questions for Attorney General William Barr During House Judiciary Committee Oversight Hearing of the Department of Justice on July 28, 2020

The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. sent a letter to the House Judiciary Committee urging them to ask US Attorney General Barr questions that are critical to the current state of our democracy ...

Civil Rights Leaders Demand Senate Censure of Tom Cotton’s Defense of Slavery

The leaders of the nation’s leading civil rights and racial justice organizations today issued a statement calling on the members of the U.S. Senate to condemn Sen. Tom Cotton’s remarks on slavery and issue a ...

Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Organizations Call for Congressional Public Hearings on Deployment of Federal Agents to American Cities

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The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), and The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights (The Leadership Conference) today sent letters to both the House and Senate ...

LDF Statement on The Trump Administration’s Termination of the 2015 Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing Rule

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Today, Lisa Cylar Barrett, Director of Policy at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), issued the following statement regarding the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)’s announcement eliminating the 2015 Affirmatively ...

Leading Civil Rights & Housing Groups Condemn President’s Effort to Gut Fair Housing, Use of Incendiary Racial Rhetoric for Political Gain

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Today, a coalition of civil rights, affordable housing and consumer advocacy organizations condemned the move by the Trump administration to eliminate a critical tool for addressing systemic racism and segregation in our communities.  In its ...

LDF Files Amicus Brief Arguing that Ramos Ruling Requiring Unanimous State Juries Should Apply Retroactively

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Yesterday, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) filed an amicus brief in the Supreme Court case Edwards v. Vannoy, where the Court will consider whether to retroactively apply its ruling from last ...

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