On Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Sherrilyn Ifill Joins Andrea Mitchell on MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell Reports

  On Martin Luther King Jr. Day, LDF’s President and Director-Counsel Sherrilyn Ifill joined MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell to discuss the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., today’s rally against gun control in Virginia, and ...

LDF Urges Senate Judiciary Committee to Oppose Andrew Brasher for the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals

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Today the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, Inc. (LDF) sent a letter to Senator Lindsey Graham, Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee and Ranking Member, Senator Dianne Feinstein opposing the nomination of Andrew Brasher to a ...

Agreement Reached in Connecticut School Desegregation Case

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On behalf of Elizabeth Horton Sheff and other Black, Latinx, and white families, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), the Center for Children’s Advocacy, the American Civil Liberties Union, the National Center ...

HUD’s Newly Proposed Fair Housing Rule Eliminates Municipal Requirements for Addressing Racial Disparities in Housing Access and Opportunity

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Today, the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) released a proposed rule that will severely weaken fair housing efforts, marking a significant step backward in the efforts to fight discrimination in housing and address ...

Advocacy Organizations Call on Senate to Halt Judicial Confirmations Process

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Washington, D.C.— A coalition of 29 advocacy organizations today sent a joint letter to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Senate Judiciary Chairman Lindsey Graham, calling on them to halt the confirmation process for Donald Trump’s federal ...

Black Voters Defend Voting Rights Win in Federal Appellate Court

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Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), the law firm of Cozen O’Connor, and Ronald L. Wilson, a veteran Louisiana civil rights attorney, delivered arguments in a longstanding voting rights case, Fusilier, et. ...

Sherrilyn Ifill in CNN Op-Ed: We Must Hold Police Departments Accountable Even if Trump Administration Fails to Do So

Source: CNN.com  Of all the ways the Trump administration has tried to roll back Obama-era initiatives, abandoning efforts to address police brutality, bias and misconduct may be one of the most devastating. After protests broke ...

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