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 ...
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, 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
On March 3, 2014, LDF sent a letter to Edward FitzGerald, the County Executive of Cuyahoga County, Ohio, Jeannet Wright, Acting County Treasurer, and the members of the Cuyahoga County council urging them to make ...
