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1. Open a national registry of police officers. If someone is fired for misconduct, they will no longer be able to just move to other jurisdictions and continue to inflict pain on Black communities.


2. Change the law of “qualified immunity.” This judge-made doctrine has resulted in near impunity for police officers who engage in this kind of brutality and violate the constitutional rights of African Americans.


3. Push the Justice Department to use the Law Enforcement Misconduct Act to investigate patterns of discrimination by police departments. This law, passed following the verdicts of the Rodney King case, has allowed for the investigations of police departments in Baltimore, MD, and Ferguson, MO, and it’s a vital tool for police transformation.


4. Find your local jurisdiction’s police union contract and ask your local leaders to remove protections that bar police officers from appearing within 72 hours of killing an unarmed person. Some of these contracts are being negotiated right now. Your city’s leaders need to hear from you.

• The Bail Project is a national nonprofit organization designed to combat mass incarceration by disrupting the money bail system ‒ one person at a time. Your gift can help pay bail for someone as an act of solidarity with local communities. Support here >>


• BOLD (Black Organizing for Leadership and Dignity) is a national training intermediary focused on transforming the practice of Black organizers in the U.S. to increase their alignment, impact, and sustainability to win progressive change. BOLD carries out its mission through training programs, coaching, and technical assistance for BOLD alumni and partners. Support here >>


• BYP100 Education Fund (BYP100) is a national organization of Black 18 to 35-year-old activists and organizers, dedicated to creating justice and freedom through a Black queer feminist lens. We focus on leadership development, direct action organizing, issue advocacy, and political education. BYP100 prioritizes the issues of historically silenced and vulnerable groups within Black communities ‒ specifically queer, trans and gender nonconforming, poor, disabled, and undocumented people. Support here >>


• Forced Trajectory Project (FTP) is a long-term multimedia project that began in 2009 documenting the rippling effects police violence has on communities beginning with the families who have lost their loved ones to police murder. Utilizing moving pictures, stills, and sound, the project’s goal is to paint an intimate and accurate portrait of the “forced trajectory” these family members find themselves on after their loved ones are killed. Support here >>


• The Justice Committee is a grassroots organization dedicated to building a movement against police violence and systemic racism in New York City. At the heart of JC’s work has always been supporting and uplifting the leadership of families who’ve lost loved ones to the police. Support here >>


• SONG is a home for LGBTQ liberation across all lines of race, class, abilities, age, culture, gender, and sexuality in the South. It builds, sustains, and connects a Southern regional base of LBGTQ people in order to transform the region through strategic projects and campaigns developed in response to the current conditions in our communities. Support here >>

• Secure justice for the senseless killings of innocent Black Americans at the hands of law enforcement by reforming our national justice system.
• Go to court against every attempt to limit voting rights in the lead-up to the November election.
• Fight back against racial discrimination in our schools at the local, state, and national levels, to provide every student with the education they deserve.
• Use LDF’s unparalleled voice to shape our nation’s conversation on the urgent need for racial justice.

• End qualified immunity for police officers, which has been interpreted by courts so expansively that it now provides near-impunity for those officers who engage in unconstitutional acts of violence.
• End no-knock warrants in drug cases, like the one that resulted in Breonna Taylor’s killing.
• Outlaw chokeholds AND racial profiling.
• Ban the transfer of military weapons to police departments. This bill only limits those transfers. It should go further.

• Ensure that there are no barriers to a voter’s ability to vote by mail.
• Extend the early voting period for all states.
• Expand voter registration options, including online voter registration (OVR) and same-day voter registration.
• Prohibit polling place adjustments that disproportionately impact people of color, limited-English proficient citizens, and students.
• Make the option of curbside voting more readily available for those who cannot – or will not – comply with social distancing.
• Offer voter education to inform the public of new practices and immediately quash disinformation.

1. Open a national registry of police officers. If someone is fired for misconduct, they will no longer be able to just move to other jurisdictions and continue to inflict pain on Black communities.


2. Change the law of “qualified immunity.” This judge-made doctrine has resulted in near impunity for police officers who engage in this kind of brutality and violate the constitutional rights of African Americans.


3. Push the Justice Department to use the Law Enforcement Misconduct Act to investigate patterns of discrimination by police departments. This law, passed following the verdicts of the Rodney King case, has allowed for the investigations of police departments in Baltimore, MD, and Ferguson, MO, and it’s a vital tool for police transformation.


4. Find your local jurisdiction’s police union contract and ask your local leaders to remove protections that bar police officers from appearing within 72 hours of killing an unarmed person. Some of these contracts are being negotiated right now. Your city’s leaders need to hear from you.

• The Bail Project is a national nonprofit organization designed to combat mass incarceration by disrupting the money bail system ‒ one person at a time. Your gift can help pay bail for someone as an act of solidarity with local communities. Support here >>


• BOLD (Black Organizing for Leadership and Dignity) is a national training intermediary focused on transforming the practice of Black organizers in the U.S. to increase their alignment, impact, and sustainability to win progressive change. BOLD carries out its mission through training programs, coaching, and technical assistance for BOLD alumni and partners. Support here >>


• BYP100 Education Fund (BYP100) is a national organization of Black 18 to 35-year-old activists and organizers, dedicated to creating justice and freedom through a Black queer feminist lens. We focus on leadership development, direct action organizing, issue advocacy, and political education. BYP100 prioritizes the issues of historically silenced and vulnerable groups within Black communities ‒ specifically queer, trans and gender nonconforming, poor, disabled, and undocumented people. Support here >>


• Forced Trajectory Project (FTP) is a long-term multimedia project that began in 2009 documenting the rippling effects police violence has on communities beginning with the families who have lost their loved ones to police murder. Utilizing moving pictures, stills, and sound, the project’s goal is to paint an intimate and accurate portrait of the “forced trajectory” these family members find themselves on after their loved ones are killed. Support here >>


• The Justice Committee is a grassroots organization dedicated to building a movement against police violence and systemic racism in New York City. At the heart of JC’s work has always been supporting and uplifting the leadership of families who’ve lost loved ones to the police. Support here >>


• SONG is a home for LGBTQ liberation across all lines of race, class, abilities, age, culture, gender, and sexuality in the South. It builds, sustains, and connects a Southern regional base of LBGTQ people in order to transform the region through strategic projects and campaigns developed in response to the current conditions in our communities. Support here >>

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• New York passed a law that banned police chokeholds AND finally struck down a dangerous police protection, 50-a, which allowed police disciplinary records to be confidential and not subject to inspection or review except by court order.
• A federal court ruled that Alabama voters will not have to notarize absentee ballots, mail in photocopies of their ID, or partake in other onerous voting requirements in the upcoming July primary.
• The North Carolina Supreme Court ruled in our favor, and now over 100 people in North Carolina will have the chance to prove that their death sentences were marred by racial discrimination.

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• Reforming our nation’s criminal justice system by working to open a national registry of police officers, ending the law of “qualified immunity” in all states, and pushing the Justice Department to use the Law Enforcement Misconduct Act.
• Fighting for safe elections in the face of a pandemic, because no one should have to choose between their vote and their safety. LDF is fighting for in-person protections AND increased vote-by-mail access for voters across the country.
• Ending the segregation that continues to plague our educational system by fighting for equal opportunities in schools and diversity in higher education.
• Confronting the economic injustice that impacts too many Black Americans and ensuring that all Americans can live, work, and thrive without racially imposed barriers.

• Detroit’s water rates are among the highest in the nation, and combined with a high poverty rate, especially among Black Detroiters, they leave many families with water bills that far exceed their ability to pay.
• Some families live for years without water service, while others are trapped in a cycle of water insecurity, with repeated disconnections and reconnections.
• Black residents are disproportionately affected: from January 2017 to July 2018, 95% of water shutoffs occurred in Census tracts with a majority-Black population, and only 5% occurred in tracts that had a population that was less than 50% Black. Water shutoff data reviewed for the period between January 2019 and January 2020 showed the same level of disparities.
• The COVID-19 health crisis has devastated Detroit’s Black community. Data compiled by the City of Detroit shows that Black people account for 81.3% of deaths in the city.

• demand justice in cases of police killings of innocent African Americans;
• lift and amplify the voice of communities beset by police violence;
• compel Department of Justice action designed to change police conduct and culture and challenging systemic unconstitutional policing;
• litigate where possible to challenge illegal policing practices on behalf of the communities we serve.

• Establish a national police misconduct registry, so officers fired for misconduct cannot be hired by police departments in other communities.
• End qualified immunity, which has been interpreted by courts so expansively that it now provides near-impunity for police officers who engage in unconstitutional acts of violence.
• End no-knock warrants, like the one that resulted in Breonna Taylor’s killing.
• Outlaw choke holds AND racial profiling.
• Ban the transfer of military weapons to police departments. This bill only limits those transfers. It should go further.

• In Louisiana and Alabama, LDF used our voice and legal prowess to ensure that students continue to have access to school meals and proper instruction without obstacle during this crisis.
• We convened over 50 education stakeholders and advocates to jointly provide recommendations to states, school districts, and administrators around providing equal educational opportunities and combating discrimination while schools remain closed for COVID-19.
• We’re working together with Harvard University to preserve its race-conscious affirmative action policies, and also continuing to lead nearly 100 desegregation cases that remain open on federal court dockets.
• We’re fighting against hair discrimination in all forms and standing up on behalf of students who are unfairly singled out or threatened with extreme disciplinary measures—including banishment from graduation—for refusing to cut their locs, an integral part of their identity and heritage.
• Our essential scholarship programs are investing in the future leaders of the civil rights struggle and encouraging the civil rights attorneys who will argue the crucial cases of tomorrow.

Discussing Police Reform on Face the Nation

Discussing Voting Rights on 60 Minutes

• Demanding that Congress take sweeping action for police reform like ending qualified immunity.
• Fighting for voting rights, through increased in-person protections and absentee balloting, in courts across the country in the midst of a pandemic.
• Ending the segregation that continues to plague our schools.
• Confronting the economic injustice that impacts too many Black Americans in the workplace and beyond.

• Polling place changes in some cities and parishes with late or no notification.
• Absentee ballots that did not arrive before Election Day.
• Lack of hand sanitizer in polling places.
• Several instances of inaccessible polling places.
• The refusal of many poll workers to wear masks and mocking voters who raised concerns about the lack of masks.

• demand justice in cases of police killings of innocent African Americans;
• lift and amplify the voice of communities beset by police violence;
• compel Department of Justice action designed to change police conduct and culture and challenging systemic unconstitutional policing;
• litigate where possible to challenge illegal policing practices on behalf of the communities we serve.

• Secure free lunches for Alabama children. When officials in Leeds City, Alabama, shut down its free lunch program during the pandemic, LDF took the county to court and won.
• Mandate free meals and distance learning for Louisiana students. We worked closely with the governor of Louisiana in the lead-up to his issuing of this mandate.
• Gain permission to intervene on behalf of Black students in a lawsuit challenging efforts to end discrimination in admissions for New York City’s specialized high schools.
• Convene over 50 education stakeholders and advocates to jointly provide recommendations to states, school districts, and administrators around providing equal educational opportunities and combating discrimination as schools remain closed for COVID-19.