Tuesday, December 14, 2021 | page
LDF Year in Review 2021 Political Participation⟶ Criminal Justice⟶ Economic Justice⟶ Education⟶ On the heels of a tumultuous year, 2021 brought its own set of changes, challenges, and triumphs. In a year that began with a violent insurrection at our nation’s capital, LDF remained undeterred in the fight to protect our democracy in the face […]
Tuesday, December 22, 2015 | news
In 2015 an extended national crisis in racial justice reconfirmed the need for visionary leadership in the fight for racial equality. For the past 75 years, whenever the call for civil rights leadership rang out, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) has stepped up. We have pushed for change in the courts […]
Tuesday, March 10, 2020 | news
Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) wrote a letter to Harris County Clerk and Chief Election Officer Diane Trautman over concerns surrounding the extremely long lines seen at polling places during the 2020 Texas Democratic primary. Black people and other people of color were disproportionately affected by these obstacles, as the […]
Tuesday, August 2, 2011 | news
Last month the NAACP Legal Defense Fund wrote the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to urge the commission to update its policy statement regarding the use of arrest and conviction records in employment screenings.
Wednesday, May 22, 2013 | news
Fayette County, Georgia—Today, in an important voting case, a federal court struck down, as violative of the Voting Rights Act, Fayette County’s discriminatory at-large method of electing members to the County Board of Commissioners and County Board of Education. In the case, Georgia State Conference of the NAACP, et al. v. Fayette County Board of […]
Monday, August 16, 2010 | news
(New York) – Today a federal court in Washington, DC, prevented Louisiana from continuing to utilize a discriminatory formula as part of the federally-funded “Road Home” Program, which was designed by the Louisiana Recovery Authority and approved by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (“HUD”) to aid homeowners in their efforts to rebuild […]
Wednesday, September 22, 2010 | news
(New York) – Today the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia issued an injunction protecting funds from the Road Home Program so that displaced homeowners can have an opportunity to show that Louisiana and HUD have distributed recovery funds in a discriminatory manner. The Road Home program is an $11 billion […]
Tuesday, November 29, 2022 | news
Today, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF) announced that Tona Boyd, who most recently served as Special Counsel and Special Assistant to the President in the White House Counsel’s Office in the Biden-Harris Administration, where she worked to advance President Biden’s agenda related to racial justice, equity, and judicial nominations, has been named Associate Director-Counsel for the […]
Wednesday, March 25, 2015 | news
Today, in a 5-4 decision, written by Justice Breyer, the U.S. Supreme Court rekindled a voting rights suit against the state of Alabama involving the use of race in a 2012 redistricting plan. Specifically, the Court remanded a pair of cases to a district court to make a specific district-by-district determination about whether a Republican-drawn […]
Wednesday, July 12, 2017 | news
LDF Welcomes Senate Bill to Shut Down President’s Election Integrity Commission Earlier today, a diverse group of Senators led by Cory Booker (D-NJ) introduced the Anti-Voter Suppression Act, which would repeal President Trump’s May 11 executive order that created an “election integrity” commission. That commission was formed with the stated purpose of investigating voter fraud […]
