by Stanley Augustin | May 15, 2022 | Press Releases
WASHINGTON, DC–On Saturday, a white supremacist committed a senseless act of violence in Buffalo, N.Y., shooting and killing 10 people in what authorities called “racially motivated violent extremism.” The following is a statement from Damon Hewitt, president and...
by Stanley Augustin | Feb 28, 2022 | Press Releases
Bill brings the nation one step closer to adopting the first federal anti-lynching legislation (Washington, DC) – Today the U.S. House of Representatives passed the Emmett Till Antilynching Act in an overwhelming bipartisan vote (422-3), legislation which would...
by Stanley Augustin | Feb 28, 2022 | Press Releases
(Washington, D.C.) – Today, the U.S. Senate failed to advance the Women’s Health Protection Act (WHPA), a bill that would protect the right to abortion nationally, and block medically unnecessary restrictions and bans on abortion care. WHPA, which passed the U.S....
by Stanley Augustin | Feb 25, 2022 | Press Releases
(Washington, D.C.) — President Joseph R. Biden announced his first nominee to the Supreme Court on Friday, fulfilling a campaign promise to appoint the first Black woman to the high court. The nominee, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, has served on the U.S. Court of...
by Stanley Augustin | Nov 23, 2021 | Press Releases
(Austin, Texas) —Two prominent national civil rights legal groups on Tuesday denounced Texas politicians’ efforts to force schools to begin pulling books from their classrooms and libraries shelves under the guise of state law. The Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights...
