LDF Responds to Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith’s Comments on Voting

Sherrilyn Ifill, president and director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), issued the following statement in response to Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith’s comments that making voting “a little more difficult” for “liberal” ...

NAACP Legal Defense Fund Statement on First Step Act

Sherrilyn Ifill, president and director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, issued the following statement on the First Step Act criminal justice reform bill: “The revised First Step Act, S. 3649 is the latest modest ...

LDF Statement on Nomination of Thomas Farr to Federal Bench

Todd A. Cox, director of policy at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), issued the following statement about the Senate’s decision to move forward with the nomination of Thomas Farr to the ...

Civil Rights Groups Demand Every Georgia Ballot Be Counted

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WASHINGTON – The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc., The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights and the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law issued the following statement regarding the unresolved ballot crisis ...

NAACP Legal Defense Fund and other civil rights leaders oppose national speaking engagement for officer who killed unarmed Black Man

The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) joined national, Tulsa, and Baton Rouge-based civil rights leaders and stakeholders today in a letter to the Southeastern Homicide Investigators Association (SEHIA), opposing the group’s decision ...

NAACP Legal Defense Fund Files Complaint on Behalf of Alabama Students Denied Voting Rights in Tuesday’s Election

The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) today filed a complaint in federal court on behalf of four Black college students who were unlawfully denied their right to vote in Tuesday’s election in ...

LDF Statement on Dismissal of Attorney General Jeff Sessions

Read a PDF of our statement here.  Sherrilyn Ifill, President and Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), issued the following statement in response to the dismissal of Attorney General Jeff ...

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