TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — A federal court today ruled that a Florida law that created wealth-based hurdles to voting is unconstitutional. The decision restores voting rights to hundreds of thousands of people with past felony convictions. ...
Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) filed an emergency amicus brief on behalf of Texas voters in the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. The brief opposes a stay sought by ...
Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) joined fourteen other civil rights, consumer protection, and industry leaders in issuing a statement condemning the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC)’s newly announced changes to ...
Twenty-six Harvard student and alumni groups, comprised of thousands of Asian American, Black, Latinx, Native American, and white Harvard students and alumni, filed an amicus brief today, urging the First Circuit Court of Appeals to ...
Today, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. signed onto a set of principles that provide a map for public safety during COVID-19. Recent reports have shown that Black people are suffering from police brutality ...
The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) joined the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, American Civil Liberties Union, Human Rights Campaign, Muslim Advocates, NAACP, and 110 additional organizations committed to racial ...
On March 13, 26-year-old emergency medical technician Breonna Taylor was brutally killed in her own apartment after being shot at least eight times by Louisville Metro Police Department (LMPD) officers, who entered her residence unannounced ...
