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 ...

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

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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 ...

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