Friday, June 5, 2020 | news
Yesterday, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) joined a coalition of civil rights organizations, organized by the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, in sending letters to U.S. Attorney General William P. Barr demanding an independent investigation of the Minneapolis Police Department (MPD) and Louisville Metro Police Department (LMPD) officers involved in the […]
Wednesday, September 23, 2020 | news
Today, a Civil Rights Coalition including the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc (LDF) sent a letter to the House and Senate Education Committees asking them to ensure that learning can continue, especially for the most marginalized children, by providing sufficient targeted education funding. As decisions are made about how to distribute much needed […]
Wednesday, July 8, 2020 | news
DETROIT, Mich. – A coalition of civil rights organizations fighting to end water shutoffs in Detroit and ensure water is affordable to city residents had the following response to Governor Gretchen Whitmer’s executive order issued today that extends the moratorium on water shutoffs to the end of the year. “While the Governor’s executive order […]
Wednesday, March 1, 2023 | news
Washington, D.C. – Today, a diverse coalition of 53 health, racial justice, environmental, labor, immigration, faith-based, disability rights, education, LGBTQ+, housing, justice reform, and voting and civil rights organizations published a new report – Strengthening Democracy: A Progress Report on Federal Agency Action to Promote Access to Voting – which assesses how federal agencies have […]
Monday, April 19, 2021 | news
Today, the Legal Defense Fund and a coalition of civil rights organizations released a set of principles to ensure that broad loan cancellation advances equity and supports all borrowers, especially women and Black and Latinx individuals who are disproportionately impacted by student debt. The principles address the affordability crisis in higher education with a focus […]
Thursday, July 9, 2020 | news
DETROIT, Mich. — Today, a coalition of civil rights organizations filed a class action lawsuit in federal court to make water affordable and permanently end water shutoffs for Detroit residents. The city’s water rates are among the highest in the nation. Combined with a high poverty rate, especially among Black Detroiters, many families are unable to pay their water bills, leaving them at risk of losing service […]
Thursday, March 25, 2021 | news
A civil rights coalition including the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc (LDF) is urging Congress to double the funding of the Education Department’s Office of Civil Rights. The Coalition is advocating for an additional $130 million to be appropriated to the Education Department’s Office of Civil Rights FY2021 budget. Additional funding is needed […]
Thursday, April 21, 2022 | news
For more information contact: Chris Ford: media@naacpldf.org Liz Iacobucci: liacobucci@commoncause.org Carolina Gonzalez: cgonzalez@latinojustice.org Sarai Bejarano: sbejarano@latinojustice.org Meghan Holden: mholden@acluct.org Yanidsi Velez: yvelez@hispanicfederation.org HARTFORD, CT – Today, lawmakers from the Connecticut legislature as well as civil rights groups in the state joined together for a press conference urging for the passage of SB 471, a voting […]
Tuesday, July 17, 2018 | news
Related Case or Issue: Davis v. City of New York Last night, the attorneys behind three landmark class actions that challenged the NYPD’s stop-and-frisk and trespass enforcement practices as racially discriminatory and unconstitutional further urged the federal court to order the NYPD to implement reforms generated through community input. The civil rights attorneys first requested the […]
Monday, November 19, 2012 | news
Civil Rights Scholar, Litigator, Author, Philanthropist and Civic Leader to Return to America’s Premier Legal Organization Fighting for Racial Justice WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) announced Sherrilyn Ifill will become its next President and Director-Counsel in January 2013. LDF has fought to expand political participation, forestall injustice […]
