by Press | Mar 4, 2019 | Blog
Fifty-four years ago, hundreds of hopeful African Americans assembled at the foot of the Edmund Pettus bridge to begin a march that would result in transformation of American democracy. But first, before they could realize their dream of being able to register to...
by Press | Mar 1, 2019 | Blog
A widespread absentee ballot fraud scheme in Bladen County, North Carolina, caused the state’s Election Board to order a new election. Bladen County operative Leslie McCrae Dowless paid people to illegally collect absentee ballots from voters’ doorsteps, even having...
by Press | Feb 7, 2019 | Blog
Throughout all levels of government, we are witnessing an overall reversal of Obama-era positions on discrimination policies, and a reversal on civil rights in general. “Since the 1960s, when these major laws were first enacted, we’ve never seen an...
by Press | Jan 16, 2019 | Blog
Last week, Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam granted Cyntoia Brown clemency for a crime committed when she was sixteen years old. Convicted as an adult for murder and given a life sentence, she faced the prospect of living most or all of the rest of her life in...
by Press | Nov 4, 2018 | Blog
Court Orders Georgia Sec. of State Brian Kemp to Permit Voters Inaccurately Flagged by State’s Flaw System to Vote ATLANTA, GA – The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia ordered Secretary of State Brian Kemp to allow voters who have been flagged...
by Press | Oct 22, 2018 | Blog
The company ends a booking policy that increased the likelihood that hosts would discriminatorily deny lodging to people of color WASHINGTON, D.C. – Kristen Clarke, president and executive director of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, issued the...
