Tuesday, March 7, 2017 | news
Read a PDF of our statement here. Civil Rights Leaders Meet with Attorney General Jeff Sessions NAACP Legal Defense Fund Continues Charge to Protect Right to Vote and Support Policing Reform In a meeting today with United States Attorney General Jeff Sessions and the leaders of five other national civil rights organizations, NAACP Legal Defense […]
Wednesday, January 19, 2022 | news
Leading civil rights organizations issued the following joint statement in response to the double atrocity committed in the Senate tonight, both in blocking a vote on the Freedom to Vote: John R. Lewis Act and in failing to change Senate rules to prevent such obstruction: “Members of the U.S. Senate tonight covered themselves in shame. […]
Thursday, September 24, 2020 | news
Today, as the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is lying in repose at the nation’s highest court, leading national racial justice organizational leaders issued a joint statement on her legacy and the critical role of the Supreme Court in protecting civil rights. These leaders are: Sherrilyn Ifill, President and Director-Counsel, NAACP Legal Defense […]
Wednesday, August 26, 2020 | news
Leading national racial justice organizational leaders issued a joint statement on armed white militia violence and police camaraderie with militia members following the arrest of a militia member in connection with the killing of two police accountability protesters in Kenosha, Wisconsin. “Last night, two protesters who were advocating for accountability following the horrific police shooting […]
Thursday, October 28, 2021 | news
The leaders of the nation’s top historic civil rights organizations released the following joint readout on their meeting today with Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia: “Citing the deteriorating crisis of democracy that continues to overtake the country, national civil rights leaders urged Sen. Manchin to commit to the protection of voting rights using every […]
Friday, May 12, 2023 | news
CONTACT: Phoebe Plagens, Legal Defense Fund | 212-965-2200 | media@naacpldf.org Bernadine Stallings, NCNW | (313) 468-4099 | bstallings@ncnw.org Angelo Greco, NCBCP | (917) 499-2688 | angelo@trillmulticultural.com Niambé Tomlinson, National Urban League | (585) 576-4406 | ntomlinson@nul.org Lacy Crawford, Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law | (252)-292-6088 | lcrawford@lawyerscommittee.org Alicia Mercedes, NAACP | (631) 935-8727 […]
Monday, July 23, 2018 | news
The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights hosted a telephone press briefing with other civil rights leaders today to outline and emphasize Supreme Court Justice nominee Brett Kavanaugh’s threatening record to voting rights. The speakers underscored the dangerous implications of more restrictive voting rights for marginalized communities. A recording of the press briefing can […]
Wednesday, October 26, 2022 | news
WASHINGTON – The Leadership Conference Education Fund, Asian Americans Advancing Justice – AAJC, Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, and the Legal Defense Fund (LDF) held a press briefing today to discuss the threats to the longstanding precedent of affirmative action in higher education. On October 31, the Supreme Court will hear two challenges […]
Monday, July 27, 2020 | news
The leaders of the nation’s leading civil rights and racial justice organizations today issued a statement calling on the members of the U.S. Senate to condemn Sen. Tom Cotton’s remarks on slavery and issue a formal censure. These leaders and their organizations are: • Melanie L. Campbell, President and CEO of the National Coalition on […]
Monday, June 28, 2021 | news
We appreciate the efforts of lawmakers leading the negotiations around the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act. We were heartened to see the U.S. House of Representatives pass a strong version of the bill last year and again this year. Yet, more than a year after George Floyd was murdered and weeks after a draft […]
