Read a PDF of our statement here. Today, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF) announced it reached a settlement on behalf of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) challenging the U.S. Department ...
This week, a new Government Accountability Office (GAO) report revealed that, under the current administration, the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) failed to adequately enforce civil rights protections in schools while ...
Today, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF) joined Seyfarth Shaw LLP in filing a state lawsuit in Alameda County, California on behalf of a descendant of Sidney and Iréne Dearing, who were dispossessed of their home when ...
Yesterday, independent journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort, along with two other individuals, were arrested after reporting on protest activity last week at Cities Church in St. Paul, Minnesota. The journalists were covering demonstrators, some of ...
Today, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF), along with several civil rights legacy organizations, delivered a letter to Congress urging U.S. Senators to oppose any effort to advance appropriations bills related to the funding of the ...
On Jan. 28, FBI agents executed a search warrant at the Fulton County, Georgia, elections office. This raid follows years of President Trump attempting to manufacture evidence of election fraud related to the 2020 presidential ...
In the wake of increased violent attacks across the country against elected officials, Legal Defense Fund President and Director-Counsel Janai Nelson issued the following statement: “In this moment, we are all witnesses to a profoundly ...
