The NAACP Legal Defense Fund, Inc. (LDF) submitted a letter to officials in Hazlehurst, GA requesting they reopen Precinct 1 Polling Place. The letter urges them to approve this reopening during Jeff Davis County election officials’ upcoming meeting on June 18, 2019. ...
LDF Fellow Sparky Abraham joins News Five Cleveland’s Ron Regan to discuss how water liens are disparately impacting Black communities in Cleveland and how Cleveland News Five’s investigation into water liens was instrumental to developing ...
Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), with co-counsel, Arkie Byrd of Mays, Byrd & O’Guinn, P.A., and the law firm of Shearman & Sterling, LLP filed a federal lawsuit on behalf ...
Janai Nelson, Associate Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), testified before the House Homeland Security Committee on how Transportation Security Administration (TSA) policies are profiling and disproportionately burdening people of ...
Today, the Supreme Court unanimously strengthened Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, holding that the statute’s presuit “charge-filing” requirement is not jurisdictional, which means that an employment-discrimination victim’s failure to perfectly satisfy ...
The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc (LDF) is pleased to announce the appointment of Janell Byrd-Chichester as Director of LDF’s Thurgood Marshall Institute. Janell is returning to LDF after having previously served as ...
Today, along with millions of others, the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund (LDF) learned damning information about the political and racially discriminatory motives behind the push to add a citizenship status question to the ...
