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LDF Mourns the Loss of Robert Garcia, Former LDF Staff Attorney and Lifelong Civil Rights Advocate

Robert Garcia (Courtesy of Community Partners) LDF mourns the loss of our colleague Robert Garcia, a lifelong civil rights advocate and LDF staff attorney from 1992 to 1996. In 2000, he founded and led the ...

Louisiana’s Governor Requires Schools to Provide Meals and Instruction for the State’s Children in Line with LDF’s Recommendations

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On Wednesday, Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards announced that the State’s K-12 schools will remain closed for the remainder of the academic year, but pointedly emphasized that instruction will continue. “This is not the end ...

Coalition of Civil Rights Organizations Urge Congress to Provide Affordable Broadband amid COVID-19 Pandemic

Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) joined the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights and over 80 other civil rights organizations in a letter to congressional leadership urging them to ...

Religious, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Organizations Call On North Charleston Mayor and Councilmembers to Commission Independent, Comprehensive Racial Bias Audit of Police Department

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Today, the Charleston Area Justice Ministry (CAJM), the American Civil Liberties Union of South Carolina (ACLU-SC) and the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) sent a letter, signed by over 200 area residents ...

Civil Rights Organizations Demand Southern Officials Protect the Health and Safety of Incarcerated People from COVID-19 Pandemic

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Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), along with The Promise of Justice Initiative, Southern Center for Human Rights, Mississippi Center for Justice, SPLC Action Fund, Roderick and Solange MacArthur Justice Center, ...

Sherrilyn Ifill on MSNBC Discussing the Wisconsin Primary and the Integrity of the 2020 Election

  Sherrilyn Ifill joined Joy Reid on MSNBC to discuss the “grotesque” decision made by the Supreme Court that placed Wisconsin voters at-risk of contracting COVID-19 simply so they could exercise their right to vote. 

LDF Urges Louisiana Governor to Ensure Provision of Essential School Meals and Distance Learning During School Closures

Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) sent a letter to Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards to express concern about the lack of school meals and educational instruction provided to schoolchildren since ...