Friday, May 2, 2025 | news
The organizations are considering all available options to continue pursuing their claims in court. Washington, DC – Today, a federal judge declined to issue a preliminary injunction in National Urban League v. Trump, a lawsuit filed by a group of civil and human rights organizations challenging three executive orders that ban diversity, equity, inclusion, and […]
Thursday, July 11, 2024 | news
Today, LDF and civil and human rights groups sent a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland and U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardoza urging the Department of Justice (DOJ) to investigate the allegations of law enforcement abuses —in response to peaceful protests occurring in cities and on university campuses across the country — that may […]
Tuesday, October 29, 2013 | news
WASHINGTON – Just as a cloture petition was filed in the Senate for Congressman Mel Watt’s nomination to be the next director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), civil and human rights groups are calling for his swift confirmation.In a letter to the Senate, 54 organizations cite Congressman Watts’ 40 years of experience in […]
Thursday, February 23, 2017 | news
Read the PDF of our statement here. Civil and Human Rights Community Condemns Rescission of Title IX Guidance Clarifying Protections for Transgender Students Today The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, the National Center for Transgender Equality, GLSEN, the National Women’s Law Center, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc., the American Civil […]
Tuesday, June 6, 2023 | news
Today, the Connecticut General Assembly passed An Act Concerning State Voting Rights in Recognition of John R. Lewis (“CTVRA”) as part of the state budget. The CTVRA is a state-level Voting Rights Act that seeks to expand access to the freedom to vote and strengthen protections against voting discrimination for communities of color throughout the […]
Tuesday, December 21, 2010 | news
The New York City Council voted on Monday to require the Police and Education Departments to produce regular reports on arrests, summonses and suspensions of public school students, a victory for civil liberties advocates who say that the school police have sometimes been too aggressive in trying to keep order. The measure, which was introduced […]
Monday, March 7, 2011 | news
The city will pay out more than $170,000 to settle with nine people who claimed they were illegally stopped and frisked by police at city housing projects. The settlements are part of a federal class-action lawsuit filed by the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, the law firm Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison and […]
Friday, May 13, 2011 | news
The Chicago Fire Department must hire 111 bypassed black firefighter candidates — and distribute “tens of millions of dollars” in damages to 6,000 others who will never get that chance — a federal appeals court ruled Friday, upholding a landmark ruling. Last year, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled, in a 9-to-0 decision, that, contrary to […]
Tuesday, August 12, 2014 | news
(Beaufort, SC) — Yesterday, the Burton-Dale-Beaufort Branch of the NAACP strongly urged the Beaufort City Council to end the current discriminatory at-large based system of voting and put up for voter referendum a district-based voting map that will ensure that all of Beaufort’s residents have an equal say in the political process. “The Beaufort City […]
Tuesday, September 23, 2014 | news
NAACP LDF and six other leading civil rights and human rights organization today sent an open letter to Republican National Committee Chair Reince Priebus calling for him to repudiate the Values Voter Summit based on its sponsoring groups’ virulent attacks on the LGBT community. Scheduled speakers at this year’s event, which begins this Thursday in Washington, […]
