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 […]
Thursday, July 7, 2022 | news
Today, seventeen civil rights groups and youth organizations sent letters to every Texas school superintendent urging them to ensure their district’s dress codes and related polices are not fostering unlawful discrimination that unfairly denies students an equal opportunity to get an education based on their race, gender, or religion. The state and national organizations, including […]
Monday, August 19, 2024 | news
Today, LDF and civil rights and voting rights groups sent a letter to Alabama Secretary of State Wes Allen, the Board of Registrars for all 67 counties, and Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall informing them that Alabama’s voter purge program, which targets individuals on the voter rolls who had been previously issued noncitizen identification numbers, […]
Monday, February 17, 2025 | news
Atlanta, Georgia— The City of Atlanta Office of Inspector General (OIG) was established as an independent watchdog to ensure integrity, transparency, and accountability in City of Atlanta government following past instances of corruption. Recent Atlanta City Council legislation (25-O-1009) threatens to undermine the independence of OIG, limiting its ability to investigate corruption and hold public […]
Wednesday, April 30, 2025 | news
(NEW YORK, NY) – Today, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF), The Legal Aid Society, The Bronx Defenders, LatinoJustice PRLDEF, and the law firm Ballard Spahr filed a putative class-action complaint against the City of New York, challenging the New York City Police Department’s (NYPD) racially disparate targeting, surveillance, and criminalization of tens of thousands of […]
