Tuesday, November 15, 2022 | news
Today, LDF sent a letter with other civil rights organizations calling on Congress to pass an expanded child tax credit (CTC) focused on helping children in low-income families as part of any year-end legislation. Redlining, credit discrimination, lack of investment in education and affordable housing, and other longstanding, systemic problems have limited economic opportunity for families of color and created a persistent […]
Friday, August 11, 2023 | news
Civil rights organizations sent a letter to every K-12 superintendent in Texas today urging them to update their policies to be compliant with the Texas Creating a Respectful and Open World for Natural Hair Act (“Texas CROWN Act”). The Texas CROWN Act amends the Texas Education Code to prohibit racial discrimination based on students’ hair […]
Thursday, May 28, 2020 | news
Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) joined the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, NAACP, Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights, National Urban League, and National Action Network in sending a letter to Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey and Chief of Police Medaria Arradondo urging them to keep communities safe during this time of […]
Thursday, September 23, 2021 | news
Leading civil rights organizations released the following joint statement after bipartisan negotiations around the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act were ended: “It is absolutely unacceptable that more than a year after George Floyd was killed and millions took to the streets worldwide to demand an end to police brutality and the systemic criminalization of […]
Friday, March 8, 2024 | news
(NEW YORK, NY) – The federal monitor overseeing the consolidated monitoring process to reform the NYPD in Floyd v. City of New York, Davis v. City of New York, and Ligon v. City of New York published a community engagement plan intended to bring into the monitorship the voices of communities most impacted by the […]
Tuesday, May 11, 2021 | news
Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), MALDEF (Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund), and Asian Americans Advancing Justice | AAJC released a comprehensive guide to redistricting, aimed at empowering Black, Latino, and Asian American communities, as well as other marginalized communities, to be actively engaged participants in one of the […]
Wednesday, August 25, 2010 | case-update
The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc., the Asian American Justice Center, and MALDEF release “The Impact of Redistricting In Your Community: A Guide to Redistricting” LOS ANGELES, CA – Today, three leading civil rights groups launched a campaign to promote their collaborative redistricting guide for the upcoming local, state and congressional redistricting processes. […]
Tuesday, September 24, 2024 | news
(NEW YORK, NY) – Yesterday, a federal district court publicly filed a 503-page report by a retired judge, who has been working with the court-appointed Independent Monitor overseeing the reform of the NYPD’s stop-and-frisk and trespass enforcement policies and practices. The federal court is accepting public comments on the report, which examines the NYPD’s discipline process for […]
Monday, June 5, 2023 | news
Today, the Independent Monitor of the New York City Police Department (NYPD) released a report detailing a preliminary audit of the NYPD’s Neighborhood Safety Teams (NST). NST units deploy hundreds of officers across NYC’s boroughs to patrol neighborhoods and make arrests in unmarked vehicles. The controversial unit relaunched in March 2022 as a rebranded version […]
Tuesday, June 10, 2025 | news
Read a PDF of our statement here. The leaders of eight legacy Civil Rights organizations released the following joint statement in response to the current administration’s immigration raids and the responsive protests in the Los Angeles area: “We stand in full and urgent solidarity with California Governor Gavin Newsom, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, and […]
