Thursday, January 27, 2022 | news
Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc (LDF) announced that former Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Julián Castro will join LDF’s Thurgood Marshall Institute (TMI) as a Non-Resident Senior Research Fellow. Secretary Castro will collaborate with TMI on initiatives related to lifting communities of color out of poverty and boosting their economic […]
Tuesday, April 16, 2013 | news
Testimony: Duane Buck’s Case, Whose Sentencing Hearing Was Poisoned With Racial Discrimination, Shows That Texas Needs The Racial Justice Act (Austin, Texas, April 16, 2013) Several prominent Texans submitted testimony to the House of Representatives Criminal Jurisprudence Committee today in support of the Racial Justice Act, which seeks to prohibit the imposition of a death […]
Monday, December 30, 2013 | news
Sherrilyn Ifill writes in The Root today that pop culture and social media scandals like Paula Deen and Duck Dynasty distract us from meaningful civil rights and social justice challenges that should command our full attention. Ifill adds that for LDF, the lesson from 2013 is to choose race battles for meaningful political, economic and social […]
Wednesday, January 29, 2025 | page
Forced Moves How Rent Increases are Driving Informal Evictions Across the Country By Sandhya Kajeepeta, PhD, Lauren O’Neil and Kenya Cummings Nearly every city in the U.S. is experiencing an affordable housing crisis. Increases in rent costs have been outpacing increases in income for years, and the number of rent-burdened households (spending more than 30% […]
Monday, February 1, 2016 | news
In a recent blog post on The DailyKos, Denise Oliver Velez pointedly reminds us of the controversy about the continued relevance of Black History Month. “Each year,” Velez writes, “as we move into the month of February, which is Black (or African-American) History Month, once again there is a spate of news articles and blog posts about […]
Thursday, January 7, 2016 | news
Following yesterday’s grand jury indictment of a Texas State trooper for perjury in connection with his traffic stop and arrest of Sandra Bland—and the Texas Department of Public Safety’s (Texas DPS) initiation of proceedings to discharge the trooper—the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) reiterates its call for commonsense reforms to eliminate racially-biased […]
Thursday, March 31, 2022 | news
Today, a federal judge struck down Florida’s suppressive voting law, S.B. 90, ruling that it violates Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution. The court will also retain jurisdiction of this case for 10 years, during which Florida may not enact any […]
Friday, February 16, 2018 | case-issue
The State of Florida filed Florida v. United States, a lawsuit that asks a federal court to approve, under Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act, the implementation four proposed voting changes. Because these proposed changes, if approved by the court, would be harmful to Florida’s minority voters, the NAACP Legal Defense Fund (LDF) represents the […]
Thursday, June 20, 2024 | news
Media Contacts Legal Defense Fund (LDF), media@naacpldf.org ACLU of Florida Media Office, media@aclufl.org Community Justice Project, nadege@communityjusticeproject.com Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP, srichmond@akingump.com Florida Supreme Court Issues Decision Confirming that Anti-Protest Law Cannot Be Used to Prosecute Non-Violent Protestors or Bystanders Today, the Florida Supreme Court issued a decision interpreting a key part of […]
Friday, August 16, 2024 | page
Florida School Board Elections What you need to know about voting for your local school board and the August 20, 2024 election August 20, 2024 is Primary Election Day in Florida and many communities will be holding school board elections. School boards have a major impact on our communities voting in school board elections is […]
