LDF and CHHIRJ File Amicus Brief Calling for Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court to Determine Police Seizure from the Perspective of a Reasonable Black Teenage Boy

Yesterday, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) and the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice (CHHIRJ) at Harvard Law School filed an amicus brief in the matter of Commonwealth v. Evelyn ...

LDF Condemns the EEOC’s Recent Vote Rescinding Its Position on Mandatory Arbitration

Read a PDF of our statement here.  Earlier this week, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) voted to rescind its long-standing position that binding arbitration agreements conflict with civil rights laws – laws which the ...

LDF Files Lawsuit Against the City of Cleveland to Address Discriminatory Water Liens and Shutoffs

Read a PDF of our statement Here

The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) has filed a class action lawsuit today in the Northern District of Ohio against the City of Cleveland on behalf of the city’s Black residents who ...

LDF’s Algernon Austin in USA Today Op-Ed: My phone’s facial recognition technology doesn’t see me, a black man. But it gets worse.

Source: USA Today AI can be as impactful on our health, safety and well-being — in positive ways or in negative ways — as a new medicine or a new machine. We have to make ...

LDF Issues Joint Statement Following Proposed Rulemaking for Changes to the Community Reinvestment Act

Today the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) joined a statement alongside nine civil rights, consumer protection and industry leaders following the notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) for changes to the Community Reinvestment ...

LDF Calls on the Trump Administration to Rescind the New Work Requirements for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)

Read a PDF of our statement here.  The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) calls upon the Trump Administration to rescind the new work requirements for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). On ...

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