Wednesday, December 7, 2022 | page
The Los Angeles County Experience Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing in America’s Largest County By Julián Castro Senior Fellow, the Legal Defense Fund’s Thurgood Marshall Institute Part 1 AFFH in Context Part 2 Striking a Balance Part 3 Connecting the Dots Part 4 Best Practices Part 5 Looking Ahead Part 1 AFFH in Context Part 2 […]
Thursday, April 11, 2019 | ldf-perspectives
50th Anniversary of the Fair Housing Act This year marks the 50th anniversary of the Fair Housing Act, which Congress passed one week after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968. King dedicated the last years of his life to the Chicago Freedom Movement, fighting housing discrimination and government policies that created segregation and […]
Thursday, March 15, 2018 | page
Friday, June 26, 2020 | news
WASHINGTON – The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) joined the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights and leading civil rights groups in issuing the following statement on Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s latest policy announcement on hate speech and voter disinformation: “While we welcome any progress in Facebook’s policies, today’s announcement continues the company’s […]
Wednesday, July 8, 2020 | news
WASHINGTON – The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights and leading civil rights groups issued the following statement on Facebook’s civil rights audit: “This audit has laid bare what we already know — Facebook is a platform plagued by civil rights shortcomings. Facebook has an enormous impact on our civil rights — by facilitating hate […]
Thursday, December 4, 2014 | news
Washington, D.C. — In the lead up to the 2014 midterm elections, the United States witnessed one of the greatest assaults on the right to vote in many generations. Many states implemented voting restrictions that made it more difficult—and, in some cases, impossible—for voters of color to participate in the 2014 midterm elections. Following the […]
Wednesday, November 22, 2023 | page
Evictions Are a Racial Justice Crisis The Promise of Good Cause Protection in New York By Dr. Sandhya Kajeepeta Senior Researcher, Thurgood Marshall Institute New York state is experiencing a housing crisis, and it continues to get worse. Eviction moratoriums and emergency rental assistance programs that were enacted during the COVID-19 pandemic have ended and […]
Thursday, December 22, 2016 | news
On November 18, 2016, President-Elect Donald Trump announced that Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions will be his nominee for Attorney General of the United States. As head of the Department of Justice and the nation’s top law enforcement official, the position of Attorney General is one of unparalleled power within the Executive Branch and has profound […]
Wednesday, July 15, 2015 | news
As the Senate gives final consideration to reauthorizing the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), LDF speaks strongly about retaining the basic principles of the Act, originally passed in 1965 to ensure that all students are educated on an equal and equitable basis. LDF sent a letter to all Senators, emphasizing that the federal role in ensuring equal educational […]
Friday, February 16, 2018 | case-issue
The Texas Legislature reapportioned its state senate districts following the 2010 U.S. Census. As states have done for more than 50 years, Texas drew its senate districts based on Census total population data so that each district contains a substantially equal number of people (within the +/- 10% deviation norm for state legislative redistricting); however, […]
