LDF Calls on the U.S. Senate to Pass the Families First Coronavirus Response Act

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On Saturday morning, the U.S. of House of Representatives passed the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (H.R. 6201), an important piece of legislation that provides federal funding and guarantees to begin to address Americans’ increasingly ...

Civil Rights Organizations Urge Congress and State Election Officials to Safeguard the 2020 Election from COVID-19 Threat

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Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) joined the Leadership Conference, Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights, and Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund in writing a letter to Congress, United States ...

LDF Calls on Elected Officials to Condemn Discrimination Linked to COVID-19

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On March 11, the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a global pandemic, further affirming that the virus will likely have a devastating impact on an increasing number of people around the globe for the foreseeable ...

Voting Rights Groups: Elections Must Proceed While States Protect Public Health

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WASHINGTON – The co-chairs of The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights Voting Rights Task Force and other organizations issued the following statement on the state of Louisiana’s decision to postpone its presidential primary, originally ...

LDF Calls for Changes to Maryland’s Blueprint Bill to Address Educational Inequities

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Like all children in the State of Maryland, Black and Brown children in Baltimore City Schools have the right to an adequate public education under the State constitution. Recently, the Blueprint for Maryland’s Future legislation, ...

LDF and Leadership Conference Request DOJ’s Plans to Address Russian Government’s Efforts to Manipulate the 2020 Election

Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) and the Leadership Conference sent a letter to Attorney General William Barr requesting information about what steps the DOJ has taken undertaken, or intends to ...

LDF Writes Letter to Harris County Clerk Over Concerns Surrounding Long Voting Lines; Demands Issue is Addressed before 2020 Presidential Election

Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) wrote a letter to Harris County Clerk and Chief Election Officer Diane Trautman over concerns surrounding the extremely long lines seen at polling places during ...

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