Read the PDF of our statement here. NAACP Legal Defense Fund Statement on Voter ID Bill in Texas This week, Texas’s Governor signed into law Senate Bill 5, a modified version of Senate Bill 14, ...
Read the PDF of our statement here. NAACP Legal Defense Fund Files Amicus Brief in Key Texas Voting Rights Case First “Bail-In” Challenge Since Shelby Decision The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) ...
Read the PDF of our statement here. Today, New York Police Department (NYPD) Sgt. Hugh Barry was arrested and charged with murder, manslaughter, and criminally negligent homicide for fatally shooting Deborah Danner, a 66-year-old woman who suffered ...
Read the PDF of our statement here. Earlier today, Cleveland officials announced internal disciplinary actions against the two police officers involved in the shooting death of 12-year-old Tamir Rice on November 22, 2014. Cleveland Police Officer ...
Document Requests Sent to Maine and New Hampshire Secretaries of State Washington, D.C. – The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) today sent Freedom of Information Act requests to two states seeking documents related ...
Read the PDF of our statement here. Late yesterday, Alabama Governor Kay Ivey signed into law the Definition of Moral Turpitude Act, restoring voting rights to thousands of citizens who were previously disenfranchised. Until now, Alabama ...
Read the PDF of our statement here. Earlier today, researchers at UCLA and Penn State released Southern Schools More Than Half a Century After the Civil Rights Revolution, a new report reviewing segregation trends in Southern ...
