Friday, May 12, 2023 | news
CONTACT: Phoebe Plagens, Legal Defense Fund | 212-965-2200 | media@naacpldf.org Bernadine Stallings, NCNW | (313) 468-4099 | bstallings@ncnw.org Angelo Greco, NCBCP | (917) 499-2688 | angelo@trillmulticultural.com Niambé Tomlinson, National Urban League | (585) 576-4406 | ntomlinson@nul.org Lacy Crawford, Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law | (252)-292-6088 | lcrawford@lawyerscommittee.org Alicia Mercedes, NAACP | (631) 935-8727 […]
Monday, July 23, 2018 | news
The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights hosted a telephone press briefing with other civil rights leaders today to outline and emphasize Supreme Court Justice nominee Brett Kavanaugh’s threatening record to voting rights. The speakers underscored the dangerous implications of more restrictive voting rights for marginalized communities. A recording of the press briefing can […]
Wednesday, October 26, 2022 | news
WASHINGTON – The Leadership Conference Education Fund, Asian Americans Advancing Justice – AAJC, Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, and the Legal Defense Fund (LDF) held a press briefing today to discuss the threats to the longstanding precedent of affirmative action in higher education. On October 31, the Supreme Court will hear two challenges […]
Monday, July 27, 2020 | news
The leaders of the nation’s leading civil rights and racial justice organizations today issued a statement calling on the members of the U.S. Senate to condemn Sen. Tom Cotton’s remarks on slavery and issue a formal censure. These leaders and their organizations are: • Melanie L. Campbell, President and CEO of the National Coalition on […]
Monday, June 28, 2021 | news
We appreciate the efforts of lawmakers leading the negotiations around the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act. We were heartened to see the U.S. House of Representatives pass a strong version of the bill last year and again this year. Yet, more than a year after George Floyd was murdered and weeks after a draft […]
Friday, January 6, 2017 | news
Washington, DC — Today, civil rights leaders from The Leadership Conference, the National Action Network, the NAACP, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc., NCAPA, NCLR and MALDEF condemned the rushed hearing of Senator Jeff Sessions, an unfit nominee for Attorney General, and called on the Senate Judiciary Committee to oppose his nomination. As […]
Wednesday, February 24, 2021 | news
Today, civil rights leaders called on the U.S. House of Representatives to pass the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act – a critical step to holding law enforcement accountable for unconstitutional and unethical conduct. The 2020 killing of George Floyd sparked a year of national protests in all 50 states calling for an end to […]
Tuesday, June 6, 2017 | news
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE / LINK / TWEET THIS June 5, 2017 Contact: Shin Inouye, 202.869.0398, inouye@civilrights.org, The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights Maria Patrick, 202.588.5180, mpatrick@nwlc.org, National Women’s Law CenterEric Dyson, 202.419.1576, eadyson@transequality.org, National Center for Transgender EqualityMichele Aweeky, 646.616.1207, Maweeky@ncld.org, National Center for Learning DisabilitiesJames Santel, 202.216.5567, jsantel@naacpldf.org, NAACP Legal Defense and […]
Monday, June 1, 2020 | news
NEW YORK — The leaders of the nation’s leading civil rights and racial justice organizations have issued a joint statement in response to the unrest ravaging America’s cities. These leaders and their organizations are: Melanie L. Campbell, President and CEO of the National Coalition on Black Civic Participation Kristen Clarke, President and Executive Director, Lawyers […]
Thursday, August 16, 2018 | news
(WASHINGTON, D.C.) – Six prominent African-American civil rights leaders sent a letter today to Senate leaders to express their concern that the Senate is not meeting its responsibility to fully and impartially evaluate the fitness of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. The letter, addressed to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Senate Judiciary Chairman Charles […]
