Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), the NAACP, and Ballard Spahr filed a lawsuit challenging the practice of “prison-based gerrymandering” in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. The lawsuit was filed on behalf ...
Contact: Eric Naing, eric@muslimadvocates.org Washington, DC — Today, Muslim Advocates and the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request seeking crucial information about the Trump administration’s ...
Today the NAACP Legal Defense Fund issued a letter requesting financial technology firm Upstart cooperate with requests for information by US Senate regarding potential discrimination against Historically Black College and University graduates in the firm’s ...
Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) filed an amicus brief in Brown v. Preycthe. The brief urges the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals to uphold the district court’s ruling that Missouri’s ...
Read a PDF of our statement here. A federal appeals court upheld a ruling blocking a Florida law that created wealth-based hurdles to voting and significantly curtailed Florida’s Voting Restoration Amendment, also known as Amendment ...
This week, New York City’s Taxi and Limousine Commission’s (TLC or the Commission) Office of Inclusion launched a public education campaign to spread awareness about the persistent discrimination that many New Yorkers of color experience ...
Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) sent a letter to Baltimore Consent Decree monitor Kenneth Thompson to provide comments on the Baltimore Police Department’s (BPD) draft Community Policing Plan (the Plan). ...
