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 […]
Sunday, August 26, 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 […]
Saturday, July 23, 2022 | news
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Mattie Goldman, The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, goldman@civilrights.org Lacy Crawford, Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, lcrawford@lawyerscommittee.org Chris Ford, The Legal Defense Fund (LDF), media@naacpldf.org Rotimi Adeoye, American Civil Liberties Union, radeoye@aclu.org Michelle Boykins, Asian Americans Advancing Justice – AAJC, Mboykins@advancingjustice-aajc.org Mauda Moran, The Native American Rights […]
Monday, January 31, 2022 | news
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE / LINK / TWEET THIS January 31, 2022 Contact: Kiren Marshall, The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, marshall@civilrights.org Angelo Greco, The National Coalition on Black Civic Participation/Black Women’s Roundtable, 917-499-2688, angelo@trillmulticultural.com Lacy Crawford, Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, 202-558-7900, lcrawford@lawyerscommittee.org Juan Martinez, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, […]
Thursday, March 14, 2024 | news
(New York City, NY) – Today, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF), advocacy organizations, and a number of New York City elected officials sent a letter to New York State Governor Kathy Hochul, condemning her five-point plan that includes the deployment of National Guard and state law enforcement personnel to conduct searches in New York City […]
Thursday, May 19, 2011 | news
The State of New York filed a very perfunctory rebuttal to the Senate GOP’s legal challenge to “prison gerrymandering,” and now a group of outside organizations — including the NAACP, Common Cause and VOCAL-NY — wants to intervene on the state’s behalf. From a court filing yesterday: “The proposed intervenors are voters and organizations […]
