Friday, September 10, 2021 | news
Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (“LDF”) and a group of local Louisiana partners sent a letter urging the Caddo Parish Commission to support the adoption of an additional early voting site. The recent decision by the Louisiana Governor and Secretary of State to move the date of the election to November […]
Wednesday, December 20, 2017 | news
LDF Sends Letter to Baltimore County Council on Affordable Housing in Proposed Towson Row Development Plan The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) sent a letter to the Baltimore County Council in response to the Baltimore County Council’s plan to provide nearly $43 million dollars to developers as part of the Towson Row […]
Tuesday, March 24, 2020 | news
Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) joined the Christian Ministerial Alliance and the Arkansas Community Institute in sending a letter to Arkansas Secretary of State John Thurston. The letter urged that Secretary Thurston issue guidance and administrative rules to ensure every eligible voter in Arkansas is able to safely vote in […]
Wednesday, April 12, 2017 | news
Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) sent a letter to Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson strongly urging him to immediately stay the scheduled executions of seven death-sentenced prisoners over an 11-day period in order to use a lethal injection drug that is set to expire this month. The unprecedented speed in which […]
Thursday, December 14, 2017 | news
Read a PDF of our statement here. LDF Sends Letter to Alabama Secretary of State Identifying Voting Issues Observed During Special U.S. Senate Election The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) sent a letter to the Alabama Secretary of State John Merrill today describing issues that LDF and our volunteers observed on the ground […]
Thursday, February 7, 2019 | news
Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) sent a letter to the Morgan County Commission in Alabama expressing concerns that the county’s at-large method of election for the Morgan County Commission may violate the Voting Rights Act by preventing Black and Latinx voters from effectively participating in the electoral process and denying […]
Tuesday, December 7, 2021 | news
Today, LDF, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) and the Vermilion NAACP Branch sent a letter to the Abbeville, Louisiana City Council regarding compliance with Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act and maps currently up for consideration by the Council. The letter urges the City Council to delay adopting a new redistricting plan until […]
Wednesday, December 21, 2022 | news
Today, LDF sent a letter outlining the growing threat of “Constitutional Sheriffs” to our multi-racial democracy to Associate Attorney General Vanita Gupta and Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke. The letter builds on a previous letter LDF sent in September urging the Department of Justice to further its efforts to address the threat of law enforcement officials […]
Friday, February 2, 2024 | news
The Legal Defense Fund (LDF) sent a letter to a Philadelphia private school, Cedar Grove Christian Academy, expressing concern regarding its uniform code, which expressly prohibits certain culturally significant hairstyles, like locs and afros. In the letter, LDF asks Cedar Grove Christian Academy to reassess their rules to ensure that all grooming policies serve legitimate safety […]
Monday, April 25, 2022 | news
The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (LDF) sent a letter to Mississippi High School Activities Association expressing concern regarding grooming policies that disproportionately target and penalize Black children for wearing their hair in culturally significant hairstyles, and addressing an incident that occurred earlier this month at a high school powerlifting competition in Jackson, Mississippi. […]
