Thursday, April 17, 2025 | news
This week, as New York state’s budget continues to be held up, Governor Kathy Hochul pursues a rollback of vital policies regarding reforms that help ensure proper access to evidence for people facing criminal charges in New York, policies that are supported by several state legislators and would help shield Black communities from disproportionate harm. […]
Thursday, November 20, 2025 | news
Today, LDF submitted testimony to the New York City Council regarding potential deployments of National Guard members and the increased presence of federal law enforcement in New York City’s local communities. LDF is deeply concerned about the harm that militarized federal law enforcement activity is already inflicting on residents, and about potential harm that may […]
Friday, May 23, 2025 | news
Today, LDF sent a letter to the New York City Council Committee on Finance, Committee on Mental Health, Disabilities and Addiction, and Committee on Health urging to Council to prioritize funding for community-based responders for people with behavioral and mental health disabilities and those in crisis in the Executive Budget for Fiscal Year 2026. As […]
Wednesday, November 18, 2020 | news
Read the full letter here Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) wrote a letter urging Mississippi Governor Tate Reeves to re-institute a statewide moratorium on evictions and foreclosures on behalf of the thousands Black individuals and families impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. Mississippi is the third most housing insecure state in […]
Wednesday, January 20, 2016 | news
On January 19, 2016, Sherrilyn Ifill, President and Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), sent a letter to the Maryland State Senate and the Maryland House of Delegates urging them to restore the voting rights of people with felony convictions by overriding Governor Hogan’s veto of Senate Bill 340 (S.B. 340) […]
Tuesday, February 1, 2022 | news
Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) sent a letter to the Louisiana State Senate and the Louisiana Senate and House Governmental Affairs Committees urging them to comply with Section Two of the Voting Rights Act in light of the recent ruling in Milligan v. Merrill. In January, a panel of federal […]
Friday, April 3, 2020 | news
Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) sent a letter to Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards to express concern about the lack of school meals and educational instruction provided to schoolchildren since schools closed on March 13, 2020, amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. These failures have a disproportionate impact on Black schoolchildren, many […]
Wednesday, May 21, 2025 | news
The Legal Defense Fund (LDF) denounces the two assault charges announced Monday by the acting U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey against Representative LaMonica McIver. LDF further urges law enforcement officials to make the just and prudent decision to drop the charges. On May 9, Representative McIver, along with Representatives Robert Menendez Jr. […]
Monday, March 13, 2017 | news
NAACP Legal Defense Fund Urges Kentucky Governor Matt Bevin to Veto “Blue Lives Matter” Bill The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) sent a letter to Kentucky Governor Matt Bevin urging him to veto H.B. 14, which would include peace officers and other first responders within the coverage of Kentucky’s hate crimes statute. […]
Wednesday, November 26, 2014 | news
Today, LDF called on the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to strengthen tools to assist localities in overcoming residential segregation. Housing segregation and discrimination still exists in countless jurisdictions around the nation, with extremely negative consequences. In The Making of Ferguson, Richard Rothstein powerfully describes how decades of federal, state and local housing […]
