Georgia Legislators and Advocates Announce Henry McNeal Turner Voting Rights Act

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Contact: Legal Defense Fund: media@naacpldf.org Fair Fight Action: Max@FairFightAction.com Southern Poverty Law Center: press@splcenter.org At a time when voting rights and fair elections are under coordinated attack nationwide, Georgia lawmakers are taking action. Today, Georgia ...

LDF Mourns the Loss of Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr., Civil Rights Champion and Torchbearer of Justice

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The Legal Defense Fund (LDF) mourns the loss of the Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr., the legendary civil rights leader, politician, advocate, and ordained minister whose powerful voice galvanized generations in the fight for civil rights, ...

LDF Begins Trial to Strike Down Racially Discriminatory Voting Maps in DeSoto County, Mississippi

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Trial began today in Harris v. DeSoto County in federal court in the Northern District of Mississippi, where the Legal Defense Fund (LDF) is challenging a racially discriminatory electoral map in DeSoto County. LDF, along ...

LDF Calls on HUD to Maintain Longstanding Civil Rights Enforcement Tool and Ensure Fair Access to Affordable Housing

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Today, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF) submitted a public comment to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) in response to the agency’s proposal to gut regulations that help ensure lenders, landlords, other ...

LDF Denounces House Passage of SAVE America Act as Dangerous and Discriminatory

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Yesterday, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) America Act, an irresponsible proposal designed to severely curb voters’ freedom to access elections. The SAVE America Act would functionally dismantle online ...

Coalition Warns Governor Hochul’s Immigration Package Fails to Protect New Yorkers

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Contact: press@endqiny.org Governor Hochul’s budget and proposed immigration package would codify qualified immunity in New York for the first time. A coalition of civil rights, community, legal, and advocacy organizations, along with legislators, is demanding ...

Advocates, Marylanders: We Need the Maryland Voting Rights Act Now

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MEDIA CONTACTS Legal Defense Fund: media@naacpldf.org ACLU: media@aclu-md.org Campaign Legal Center: media@campaignlegalcenter.org Common Cause: mmajikas@commoncause.org General Assembly Must Act to Empower Voters Now Amid Federal Attacks on Voting Rights and an Affordability Crisis Today, a ...

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