Johnathan Smith Testifies In Support of Fair Employment Protection Act

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 ...

PPG’s Advocacy Halts Efforts to Reduce Early Voting in Georgia

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 ...

Georgia Legislature Rejects Voting Measure to Substantially Reduce Early Voting

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 ...

LDF Participates in Dignity in Schools Campaign’s “Days at the Capitol” As School Data Show Racial Disparities

Today, the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights released long-awaited data that unequivocally demonstrate disparities in school resources and disciplinary practices along racial lines. Students of color are more likely than white students to ...

New York Voting Rights Organizations Urge Governor Cuomo To Promptly Order Special Election For 12 Vacant Legislative Seats

New York, NY—Twelve legislative seats in the New York State Assembly and State Senate are currently vacant, depriving approximately 1.8 million New Yorkers, over 800,000 of whom are people of color, of their fundamental right ...

Support Debo Adegbile to Lead DOJ Civil Rights Division

Click here to take action and tell the Senate to confirm Debo Adegbile  Click here to read a letter from the National Lawyers Guild and other members of the legal community denouncing the Senate’s rejection ...

LDF Applauds Congress’ Efforts to Protect Against Workplace Harassment

This week the United States Congress introduced critically important new legislation, the Fair Employment Protection Act.   The measure, introduced by Senators Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) and Tom Harkin (D-IA) in the Senate, and Representatives George Miller ...

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