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LDF’s Associate Director-Counsel Janai Nelson discusses Georgia’s Voter Suppression on All in with Chris Hayes

Wednesday, October 24, 2018 | news

Watch as Janai Nelson discusses Georgia’s Voter Suppression ahead of the 2018 Midterm election with Chris Hayes on MSNBC’s All in with Chris Hayes.

LDF’s Archives Team Wins Society of American Archivists’ Prestigious Archival Innovator Award

Friday, September 19, 2025 | news

The team of nine talented archivists, lawyers, librarians and support staff behind the Legal Defense Fund’s Recollection: A Civil Rights Legal Archive, is the 2025 recipient of the Archival Innovator Award given by the Society of American Archivists (SAA). The Archival Innovator Award recognizes an archivist, a group of archivists, a repository, or an organization […]

LDF’s Algernon Austin in USA Today Op-Ed: My phone’s facial recognition technology doesn’t see me, a black man. But it gets worse.

Tuesday, December 17, 2019 | news

Source: USA Today AI can be as impactful on our health, safety and well-being — in positive ways or in negative ways — as a new medicine or a new machine. We have to make certain that AI systems have been through comparable degrees of safety tests similar to those that would be used on […]

LDF’s Ajmel Quereshi Spoke with the National Law Journal About Five Major Milestones in the Legal Fight Against Housing Discrimination

Wednesday, April 11, 2018 | news

By: MP McQueen Source: The National Law Journal   A week after the assassination of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., the landmark Fair Housing Act was signed by President Lyndon Johnson. The act, now 50 years old, outlawed discrimination based on race, color, national origin, sex or religion in housing sales, rentals or brokerage services. It was the […]

LDF’s Ajmel Quereshi Discusses the Trump Administration’s Cruel Immigration Policies on MSNBC Live with Craig Melvin

Monday, June 25, 2018 | news

By: Craig Melvin Source: MSNBC Live with Craig Melvin   LDF Senior Counsel Ajmel Quereshi joined MSNBC Live with Craig Melvin to discuss the Trump Administration’s cruel immigration policies, and the two FOIA requests LDF filed last week to help locate and reunite families separated at the border.

LDF’s Ajmel Quereshi Discusses Our Work to Fight Racial Profiling on Airlines in Washington Post

Monday, October 30, 2017 | news

In 2016, the NAACP LDF, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and Muslim Advocates asked the federal agency to begin investigating stories in the news of passengers who had been kicked off planes but hadn’t filed formal complaints. The Department of Transportation declined that request. That same year, agency investigators found that there had been no […]

LDF’s 80th Anniversary

Thursday, January 16, 2020 | page

CELEBRATING 80 YEARS OF CIVIL RIGHTS ADVOCACY Join us on May 7, 2020 for a celebration commemorating this milestone.   To learn more information, please email us at events@naacpldf.org or call (212) 965-2200.

LDF’s 28th Annual National Equal Justice Award Dinner (NEJAD)

Friday, April 6, 2018 | nejad

On Thursday, November 6, 2014, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) hosted its 28th annual National Equal Justice Award Dinner (NEJAD) at the Hilton Midtown Hotel, 1335 Avenue of the Americas at 53rd Street. This year’s dinner culminated a year-long series of events commemorating the 60th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education.  See event […]

LDF’s 2014 Prepared to Vote Campaign

Saturday, November 1, 2014 | news

LDF lawyers will be teaming up with local grassroots and legal partners to ensure maximum participation by voters of color in the midterm elections of November 2014.  As part of our Prepared to Vote campaign, LDF attorneys will be on the ground on November 4 in Georgia, Alabama, and Texas: states where LDF litigation and advocacy has […]

LDF: Texas Court Order Ensures Access to Ballot for Hundreds of Thousands, But More Work Remains

Wednesday, August 10, 2016 | news

Today, ahead of the November election, U.S. District Court Judge Nelva Gonzales Ramos issued an order providing interim relief to the 600,000 registered voters and 1.2 million eligible voters who lack one of the limited forms of photo identification (ID) that Texas law requires to vote in-person. The relief follows the NAACP Legal Defense and […]

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