Nearly 300 leading civil rights, housing, faith, environmental, industry organizations and a local elected official from throughout the nation sent a letter to President Biden, urging his administration to immediately release the U.S. Department of Housing ...
(New York, NY – April 17, 2024) Today, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF) lauds the U.S. Supreme Court’s unanimous decision in Muldrow v. St. Louis that preserves the goal and intent of Title VII of ...
(Albany, NY) – Today, six organizations supporting the Campaign to End Qualified Immunity in New York are convening in Albany to advocate for the passage of Senate Bill S182 and companion Assembly Bill A710. If ...
Media Contact: LDF Media Office: media@naacpldf.org, 212-965-2200 ACLU National: media@aclu.org WilmerHale LLP: Frank E. James, frank.james@wilmerhale.com. 202-247-3560 (California) – Today, a consortium of nationally renowned civil rights organizations, legal organizations, and a law firm filed ...
SHREVEPORT, LA. – A crucial test of the movement toward equal voting rights will unfold at a hearing and trial to be held from April 8 to 10 at the U.S. District Court for the ...
Montgomery, Ala. — Today, a coalition of civil rights, voting rights and disability rights organizations sued Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall, Alabama’s 42 District Attorneys, and Alabama Secretary of State Wes Allen to block Alabama’s ...
The Legal Defense Fund (LDF) is deeply saddened by the death of Louis Gossett Jr., a trailblazing actor and benefactor of human and civil rights. Gossett Jr. died at 87 years old on March 29, ...
