Today, California Governor Gavin Newsom commuted the sentences of California’s entire death row, totaling 548 sentences.

Today, the National Urban League and the Massachusetts Association of Community Development Corporations filed a lawsuit ...

Today, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) issued a final rule rescinding its Enforcement Guidance on the ...

Unions representing election workers, nonprofit voter organizations challenge DOJ’s attempt to intimidate and coerce election ...

President and Director-Counsel Janai Nelson issued the following statement regarding the passing of Dolores Huerta: “With ...

The NAACP today filed an amicus brief in the United States District Court for the District of Alaska in litigation involving an unprecedented effort by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to ...

Black and brown voters made a statement last night, … [but] our vote was not the final word. ” Nelson said Legal Defense Fund ...

Today, civil rights organizations, including the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), the Legal Defense Fund (LDF), the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the ACLU of Georgia, filed an emergency ...

Civil Rights Coalition Successfully Limits DOJ Voter Intimidation Effort  WASHINGTON – The NAACP, Advancement Project, and the Legal Defense Fund (LDF) filed an emergency Motion for Temporary ...

Civil Rights Coalition Resists DOJ Voter Intimidation Effort The NAACP, Advancement Project, and the Legal Defense Fund (LDF) have filed an emergency Temporary Restraining Order in NAACP v Blanche to ...

On Saturday, civil rights organizations, including the Legal Defense Fund (LDF), the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the ACLU of Georgia, reached a ...

To help you learn more about the facility widely known as Cop City, as well as the state of public safety in Atlanta, LDF has compiled answers to the most frequently asked questions. This resource ...