Today, Members of Congress, led by Senator Ben Cardin (D-MD) and Representative John Conyers (D-MI-13), introduced the Democracy Restoration Act of 2014, S. 2235 and H.R. 4459. The bill would restore voting rights in federal elections ...
In a column for The Washington Post’s popular “Wonkblog,” Emily Badger covers Sherrilyn Ifill‘s remarks at a recent discussion at the Economic Policy Institute on housing and poverty. “The most important fact we rarely admit in talking ...
LDF Assistant Counsel Ria Tabacco Mar appeared in front of New York’s City Hall in support of the Stop Credit Discrimination in Employment Act, which would ban the use of credit checks in employment. “Poor credit ...
Today, LDF attended a ceremony in the East Room of the White House where President Obama took two executive actions designed to assist minority and female workers in detecting and redressing pay discrimination. Discrimination in ...
Today, the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, along with the National Women’s Law Center and the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, are sponsoring a congressional briefing on the Fair Employment Protection Act. The groups ...
Last week, LDF’s Political Participation Group recorded a tremendous victory for voting rights in Georgia. After significant pressure from voting rights and pro-democracy groups, the state legislature failed to pass HB 891, a bill that would have ...
LDF is pleased that the Georgia Legislature, in a significant move, failed to pass HB 891, a bill that would have reduced drastically early voting in city and town elections from 21 to, incredibly, just ...
