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America's premier civil rights law organization fighting for racial justice through litigation, advocacy, & public education. Established in 1940.

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1Oct 8, '17Reminder: NFL players are protesting racial injustice & police brutality (as they should). Not our troops, the Flag, or the National Anthem.59×049k25k22
2Aug 30, '21Two years ago today, Elijah McClain was taken off life support. Two years without justice. Officers stopped Elijah while he was walking home, placed him in a chokehold, and paramed32.3×031k12k205
3Jun 21, '23#BREAKING: The Senate has voted to confirm Natasha Merle to the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York. We enthusiastically congratulate our LDF colleagu24.3×463k12k1.6k24
4Jun 14, '23#BREAKING: The U.S. Senate confirmed long-serving civil rights attorney and LDF alumnus Dale Ho to the Southern District of New York.12.1×230k3.3k3414
5Oct 27, '20Like this tweet to receive information about your rights as a voter and a link to #ReportSuppression on #ElectionDay. Despite the unprecedented nature of this election, voting shou11.5×011k3.5k54
6Oct 2, '23Thurgood Marshall, LDF's founder, and the first Black Justice, was sworn into the Supreme Court #OTD in 1967. His visionary legal work at the Legal Defense Fund was an unrivaled co11.3×215k1.3k46730
7Aug 21, '23Today, Natasha Merle will be sworn in as a United States District Judge for the Eastern District of New York. She will be the first former public defender to serve this position in7.0×133k2.7k60313
8Jul 6, '21"I have never asked for special treatment. I did not seek it here. All I asked was to be judged by my credentials and treated fairly and equally." @nhannahjones' official statement6.4×06.3k1.5k203
9Jun 25, '20Today should have been Tamir Rice’s 18th birthday. #BlackLivesMatter6.3×05.4k2.6k17
12Jan 2, '24The @USPS released a new stamp in honor of LDF alum Constance Baker Motley, the first Black woman to serve as a federal judge and argue a case before the Supreme Court. The new sta6.0×114k1.2k42236
13Feb 4, '22Pamela Moses, a Black woman, has been sentenced to six years in prison because of a voting error. Meanwhile, white individuals who are known to have committed blatant voter fraud h5.8×03.9k1.9k92
14Sep 24, '24Tonight, our legal system tragically failed Marcellus “Khaliifah” Williams for the final time. The state of Missouri executed Mr. Williams in a horrific display of inhumanity, desp5.4×103k1.2k45928
15Jun 24, '21BREAKING: The United States Senate has just voted 53-40 to confirm Candace Jackson-Akiwumi to serve on the Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. She is the 2nd Black woman to e5.4×06.8k1.2k17
16Nov 22, '20On this day in 2014, 12 year-old Tamir Rice was fatally shot by a police officer in Cleveland while playing with snowballs and a toy pellet gun. He would have turned 18 this year a4.8×04k1.9k25
17Jan 15, '22"I take great umbrage when members of this body use old, trite states' rights arguments...that were used against Dr. King back then to push against reasonable access to the ballot 4.8×05.1k1.5k42
18Jan 10, '23A statue of Barbara Johns, the Black teen who challenged school segregation in Virginia, will replace Robert E. Lee in the U.S. Capitol.4.6×87k1.1k26113
19Mar 3, '19Thank you, @HillaryClinton, for highlighting our critical work to defend #VotingRights. To learn more about #PreparedToVote - our election protection program - and our other voting4.3×04.1k1.3k8
20Feb 4, '19Amadou Diallo, a 22-year-old Guinean immigrant, was shot at 41 times by 4 plainclothes #NYPD officers 20 years ago today. May he #RestinPower #BlackLivesMatter #BlackHIstoryMonth4.2×02.2k2.2k18
21Jan 29, '19WATCH: @Sifill_LDF calls out misleading testimony and how "shading the reality of what it takes for lawyers and communities to challenge discriminatory voting practices...is the re4.1×03.4k1.6k22
22Dec 7, '20Cobb County, Georgia election officials plan to slash the number of early voting locations from eleven to five for the upcoming runoff election. This move will harm Black and Latin4.0×02.1k1.5k31
23Dec 23, '17BREAKING: We just got a preliminary injunction to stop @HUDgov from suspending a rule aimed at assisting low-income families in securing affordable housing in higher-opportunity ar3.8×03.2k1.5k0
24Feb 5, '20Trayvon Martin should have turned 25-years-old today. #BlackLivesMatter #SayHisName #TrayvonMartin3.7×03.3k1.5k6
25Oct 25, '21#BREAKING The Senate confirmed Myrna Pérez to serve on the Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit. An exceptional voting rights attorney who is intimately familiar with election law,3.6×04.5k6808
27Sep 28, '18"He is a sitting judge on the D.C. Circuit court of appeals. For him to go after senators like that, trying to do their job, was shocking," @Sifill_LDF discussing the #KavanaughHea3.3×02.9k1.3k13
28Sep 7, '21#BREAKING: LDF, Reed Smith LLP, and The Arc have filed a federal lawsuit challenging S.B. 1, the new Texas law targeting voting rights. The lawsuit argues that the law intentionall3.1×03.2k93615
29Aug 30, '18BREAKING: Today we released our detailed report on Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s record. We urge senators to halt hearings and oppose Kavanaugh’s confirmation. Read our statement:3.0×01.9k1.5k9
30Feb 8, '17Remember: Coretta Scott King in her 1986 ltr. said Jeff Sessions used powers of his office to intimidate and frighten elderly Black voters.3.0×02.1k1.5k0
31Sep 9, '21#BREAKING: A federal judge has granted a preliminary injunction in our case against Florida's anti-protest law, #HB1, thereby blocking a key provision of the law from being enforce3.0×02.9k92237
32Nov 3, '20🚨🚨 BREAKING: We have filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of marchers and prospective voters in Alamance County who encountered police violence, including pepper spray, on a march t2.8×03.1k76714
33Feb 6, '17This is one powerful commercial that didn't air during the #SuperBowl. Watch ahead of Jeff Sessions' confirmation vote this week.2.8×01.5k1.6k0
34Feb 5, '22Trayvon Martin would have turned 27 years old today. We honor his life and the social justice movement that followed his untimely death.2.7×03.3k6646
35Jun 19, '17Happy #Juneteenth (June 19th, 1865), which marked the "effective end of slavery" in the United States.2.5×01.5k1.4k0
37Feb 25, '22BREAKING: Pamela Moses, a Black woman who was sentenced to six years in prison for a voting error, will now get a new trial. Ms. Moses has been incarcerated since December but is f2.4×02.6k65611
38Sep 6, '18.@CoryBooker: "Why not just announce right now that you will recuse yourself from any matters coming before the supreme court involving the Mueller investigation?" #KavanaughHearin2.3×02.1k77712
40Sep 9, '21LDF President & Director-Counsel @SIfill_LDF has been named as an honoree in the 2021 #TIME100, @TIME’s annual list of the world’s most influential people.2.3×02.7k40013
41Dec 16, '18ICYMI: As the Administration willfully abandoned its duty to enforce the national’s civil rights laws and other government entities followed suit, LDF rose to the occasion, taking 2.2×02k8794
42Mar 26, '18Linda Brown, lead plaintiff in our landmark Brown v. Board of Education case, has died. As a young girl, her courage in the face of one of the darkest forces in American history fu2.2×01.5k1.1k5
43Feb 13, '18BREAKING: A federal appeals court has upheld the effort to desegregate an Alabama school district, prohibiting the city of Gardendale, AL from creating a separate, segregated, dist2.2×01.2k8993
44Mar 29, '19For decades Baltimore City Public Schools have gotten the short end of the stick when it comes to addressing funding needs. Here are five things you need to know about our lawsuit 2.1×02.1k7769
45Sep 6, '18When asked to "define what 'racial spoils system' means to him?" Judge Kavanaugh, refuses to directly answer @KamalaHarris' question regarding his use of the loaded term" in a prev2.1×01.6k86411
46May 28, '18"1.2 million black men enlisted during the Second World War—a display of commitment to, and faith in, America..." This Memorial Day we celebrate Black heroes.2.1×01.7k88719
47Aug 3, '25ICYMI: Fayette County passed a map that shut Black voters out: 0 majority-Black districts in a county that’s 25% Black. We teamed up, sued, and won. Now there are 3 majority-Black 2.0×39k1.5k47378
48Aug 20, '20BREAKING: @NAACP_LDF & @Public_Citizen filed a lawsuit on behalf of @NAACP against the #USPS, arguing that the implementation of recent changes violates federal law & cause2.0×01.4k89118
49Jun 21, '23"The Senate’s confirmation of Ms. Merle is a recognition of the undeniable strengths she brings to our federal court system. She will be the first former public defender to serve o2.0×38k1k1642
50Feb 7, '22Sandra Bland would have turned 35 years old today, but her life was tragically cut short following a minor traffic violation. We honor her life, and will continue to fight to prote1.9×02.1k5765
51Jan 16, '21WATCH: @Sifill_LDF calls out the misguidedness of the white inward gaze that has dominated media when Black communities are actually at a much better vantage from which to understa1.9×01.8k59365
52Dec 19, '18Lynching is a message crime where the very public murders of Black Americans terrorized communities across the nation in the 20th century. Today Congress passed a bill which makes 1.9×01.7k6839
53Jun 5, '20Breonna Taylor should be turning 27 today, but her life was stolen from her by police 84 days ago. We will not stop demanding #JusticeForBreonna. We will not stop demanding account1.9×01.5k8468
54Dec 2, '21#BREAKING: Former Ohio deputy Jason Meade has been charged with murder for fatally shooting Casey Goodson, Jr. in the back five times.1.9×01.9k57525
55Jan 17, '22"Give us the ballot, and we will fill our legislative halls with men of goodwill and send to the sacred halls of Congress men who will not sign a 'Southern Manifesto' because of th1.9×01.8k60717
56Jan 22, '21BREAKING: 3 grand jurors in the Breonna Taylor case have filed a petition calling for AG Cameron's impeachment.1.8×01.8k57417
57Apr 25, '18Today, Andrew Oldham joined Wendy Vitter in refusing to say whether Brown v. Board was correctly decided. This non-answer is an affront to civil rights and the rule of law. Support1.8×01.2k7978
58Jul 16, '25Today, we honor the birthday of Philando Castile. Known as “Mr. Phil” to students and “Chedda” to friends, he was loved deeply by his community. Philando Castile should be celebrat1.7×33k2.5k73452
59Jan 15, '22"Our most urgent request to the president of the United States and every member of Congress is to give us the right to vote. Give us the ballot, and we will no longer have to worry1.7×01.6k60833
60Nov 24, '20BREAKING: Today we released a report detailing the flawed grand jury process in which Attorney General Cameron’s office tailored their presentation, which was rife with bias, to pr1.7×01.3k64944
61Nov 13, '21There is powerful evidence that Julius Jones is innocent, but he is scheduled to be executed on Nov. 18. The Oklahoma parole board has recommended clemency twice, but Gov. Stitt ha1.7×01.1k76918
62Aug 18, '17We're pleased to see #BannonOut, but at this point the White House's white supremacist problem is the President.1.6×01.6k5970
63Dec 7, '18“By baselessly and wrongly blaming [#EJBradford] for the shootings before conducting a competent investigation, the HPD has caused tremendous pain to Mr. Bradford’s family and to t1.6×01.2k7685
64Jun 14, '21BREAKING: In a bipartisan 53-44 vote, the Senate has just confirmed Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. She is just the ninth Black woman1.6×01.8k40915
65Mar 3, '22TIME has named @Sifill_LDF to its first-ever @TIME Women of the Year list, recognizing 12 extraordinary leaders fighting for a more equal world! See the full list here:1.5×01.9k2996
66Jan 24, '18At this morning’s @SenJudiciary hearing, judicial nominee Michael Brennan told @CoryBooker that he can’t say whether implicit racial bias exists in the criminal justice system. Thi1.5×01.1k5970
67Feb 26, '21Today marks 9 years since the tragic murder of Trayvon Martin, who was fatally shot as he walked home from buying candy at a store. Trayvon was a victim of racial discrimination an1.5×01.5k5333
68Jul 2, '21Black hair belongs in the classroom. In court. At the podium. In the workplace. Wherever it grows. We won’t let race-baed hair discrimination be a conduit for systemic racism. It’s1.5×01.4k49438
69Aug 11, '19Last week it was revealed that the DOJ suppressed a report showing that suspected #WhiteSupremacists were responsible for all race-based domestic terror. @Sifill_LDF remindsthe DOJ1.5×01.1k6872
70Dec 20, '18Over the past year, we have redoubled our efforts to advance the cause of justice and equality. Help expand our impact in 2019. Donate today, and a group of generous donors will ma1.5×01.4k5662
71Nov 8, '18"...To know that two black women (@Sifill_LDF and @JNelsonLDF ) are at the helm of this esteemed organization; it’s to be in awe of the sheer breadth of the work that they do." -- 1.4×01.5k4831
72Dec 22, '18Unfortunately, this is not first time we’ve seen a kid forced to live through a humiliating moment because someone didn’t approve of his hairstyle. Last month, we filed a complaint1.4×01.5k46312
73Oct 11, '20🚨 BREAKING: The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia has granted a preliminary injunction in @NAACP v. USPS that suspends service changes that have disrupted mail deli1.4×01.4k49412
74Aug 20, '17We mourn the loss of comedian and activist Dick Gregory who wasn't afraid to fight for racial justice #RIPDickGregory1.4×01.1k6210
75Jan 7, '21We are excited by the selection of @KristenClarkeJD as Assistant AG for Civil Rights. Ms. Clarke will be the 5th former LDF attorney to lead the Civil Rights Division. She brings e1.4×01.6k3414
76Oct 6, '19The killing of Joshua Brown, the key witness in the trial of the Dallas Police Officer who killed #BothamJean, is deeply alarming and highly suspicious. Read our full statement on 1.3×01k58113
77Sep 20, '21LDF is hugely grateful to Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds for matching all gifts up to $1,000,000 split between LDF and @ACLU through October 8. Their generosity comes at a critical1.3×01.8k2108
78Jun 2, '20Despite calls from the president to “dominate” protesters, Mayor Melvin Carter (@melvincarter3) announces: “In MN, we’re not doing it. We’re not federalizing our troops.”1.3×01.3k3968
79Dec 9, '21#BREAKING: A request to dismiss a legal challenge to Georgia’s restrictive voting law has been rejected by a federal judge, clearing the way for the lawsuit to proceed.1.3×01.5k3478
80Oct 3, '18"We are united, as professors of law and scholars of judicial institutions, in believing that Judge Kavanaugh did not display the impartiality and judicial temperament requisite to1.3×01k4853
81Mar 24, '22The Honorable Ann Claire Williams, member of LDF's Board and Chair of the American Bar Association's Standing Committee on the Federal Judiciary, explains why the @ABAesq gave Judg1.3×01.2k37526
82May 27, '19TODAY: Surviving members of the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion, an all-black battalion of the Women’s Army Corps during World War II, will be honored. #MemorialDay #blac1.3×01.2k45213
83May 27, '22.@Maddow honors 2022 Radcliffe Medal recipient @SIfill_LDF: “Sherrilyn Ifill thinks big. We are fortunate as a country that what she thinks about most is justice.”1.2×01.4k25655
84May 25, '21In the aftermath of George Floyd’s death, people organized like never before. Too many Black lives have been lost to an oppressive system that refuses to recognize their dignity, t1.2×01.3k3269
85Jan 29, '19WATCH: @Sifill_LDF responds to @RepDougCollins' question regarding the power between state and federal governments and how the passage of 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendment is being le1.2×01k46612
86Feb 17, '22“When I hear members of the committee say they have heard from constituents, [and] suggest Critical Race Theory is being taught in our K-12 schools, it is based on the faulty belie1.2×01.1k36539
87Oct 26, '21#BREAKING The Senate has confirmed Jia Cobb to serve on the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. With her confirmation, Judge Cobb is now only the fourth Black woman e1.1×01.4k2597
88May 27, '19Today, Black Americans account for 17% of America's 1,340,533 active-duty personnel -- including those serving in the US Coast Guard. This #MemorialDay, we celebrate Black heroes. 1.1×01k4244
89Oct 5, '21AG Merrick Garland has directed federal authorities to address the increasing threats targeting school board members, teachers, and other employees in the nation’s public schools.1.1×01.2k2748
90Aug 28, '20Seven years later and EVERY word of @Sifill_LDF's 50th anniversary remarks still rings true. "Let them hear you! And in case they don't hear you today...tell them again!" #MarchOnW1.1×01.3k2529
91Dec 22, '20NEW: We've filed an amended complaint in our lawsuit challenging President Trump and his campaign's attempts to overturn election results and disenfranchise Black voters. The amend1.1×01.1k3208
92Jul 14, '19Lois Davis, an employee, sued her employer after she was fired when she missed work on a Sunday due to a religious obligation. Check out @TMI_LDF’s take on #SCOTUS’ unanimous decis1.1×01k38711
93Jul 18, '20The son of sharecroppers who became a congressman, he showed America what it means to fight for the soul of this nation.1.0×01.2k2662
94May 8, '22Ahmaud Arbery would have been 28 years old today. While the men who murdered him are serving life sentences in prison, we join in celebrating his life, mourning with his mother and1.0×01.3k2291
95Aug 24, '21Judges on Monday restored voting rights to an estimated 55,000 North Carolinians on parole or probation for a felony.1.0×01.2k2502
96Dec 12, '21"We know that the right to vote cannot be taken for granted. At every turn, it must be safeguarded and strengthened. Executive action alone is not enough. Our Congress must act." -0.9×09972766
97Oct 5, '21#BREAKING: The John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act will be introduced by the United States Senate today at 3:30 pm ET. Watch live:0.9×01k2976
99Jan 25, '22BREAKING: A federal court has granted a preliminary injunction in LDF's lawsuit challenging Alabama’s newly drawn congressional map. The state legislature must now draft a new cong0.8×09901882

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