LDF Statement on Justice Department Email Containing White Supremacist and Anti-Semitic Content

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The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) is both stunned and outraged to learn that the Justice Department sent an email to immigration court employees, including judges, which contained white supremacist and anti-Semitic ...

LDF on the Efficacy and Principle of Facebook Bias Report

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Today, Facebook released a document it has billed as an ‘anti-conservative bias’ report or audit. This so-called ‘report’ is grossly lacking in rigor and documentation. Rather than serving as an independent analysis it is simply ...

LDF Statement on Police Commissioner’s Decision to Fire Pantaleo

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Today, over five years after NYPD officer Daniel Pantaleo killed Eric Garner with an illegal chokehold, Police Commissioner James O’Neill announced that Pantaleo has been fired from the Department. “For five years Eric Garner’s family ...

LDF to Fight Against Proposed HUD Rule Weakening Disparate Impact

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The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (LDF) is committed to fighting a proposed rule that is part of the Trump Administration’s broad attack on fair housing and civil rights. On Monday, the U.S. Department ...

LDF’s Katurah Topps on Ferguson Five Years Later

Source: St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Five years ago, a Ferguson police officer killed Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenager, and the nation turned its attention to the deeply entrenched racism that infected the Ferguson Police Department, municipal courts and city ...

LDF’s Janell Byrd-Chichester and Dr. Algernon Austin on Three Policies that Address Rural vs. Urban Divide in America

Source: Salon

It is an ugly time in America. The recent horrific acts of domestic terrorism have many Americans rethinking going to the local shopping center, the county fair, or out to dinner, lest we be shot ...

LDF Joins Coalition Urging Tech Companies to Enact Meaningful Changes

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The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) joined The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights and 45 civil rights, public interest, labor, faith, and technology organizations in a statement ahead of today’s ...

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