Parents and Advocates Push Back on Attempt to Roll Back Desegregation Efforts in Hartford Public Schools

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Related Case or Issue: Sheff v. O’Neill   Parents and education advocates are concerned that progress made to desegregate public schools in Hartford, Connecticut and surrounding suburbs will be reversed, according to a motion to intervene filed ...

Civil Rights Groups Urge Senators to Oppose the Protect and Serve Act of 2018

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Today, four major civil rights groups sent a letter to U.S. Senators urging them to oppose introduction and co-sponsorship of the Protect and Serve Act of 2018, which would extend hate crime protections to law enforcement officers. ...

Civil Rights Groups Sue HUD over Suspended Implementation of Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing Rule

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Read the full complaint here. Register for our press call with co-counsel and co-plaintiffs, scheduled for May 8 at 11am EST here. The National Fair Housing Alliance (NFHA), Texas Appleseed, and Texas Low Income Housing Information Service ...

LDF Statement on Google Banning Bail Bond Industry Ads

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Today, Google announced that it will ban ads for the bail bond industry in their ad systems. Todd A. Cox, Policy Director at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), provided the following statement: “The money ...

National Civil Rights Groups and Fair Housing Advocates File Brief Holding Bank of America and Wells Fargo Accountable for Housing Discrimination in Miami

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Today the NAACP Legal Defense Fund (LDF), Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, the ACLU Foundation, the National Fair Housing Alliance, the Poverty and Race Research Action Council (PRRAC), AARP and eight fair housing ...

LDF’s Sherrilyn Ifill Discusses Starbucks Anti-Discrimination Training on Sirius XM

By: Joe Madison Show Source: Sirius XM   LDF President and Director-Counsel Sherrilyn Ifill joined the Joe Madison Show to discuss her role in the implicit bias training taking place at Starbucks after two black ...

LDF Statement on 5th Circuit Court of Appeals Decision in Texas Voter ID Case

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Related Case or Issue: Veasey vs Abbott   Today, the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals determined that Texas’ current photo voter ID law, S.B. 5, sufficiently remedies discrimination against Black and Latino voters. The decision reverses a ...

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