by Press | Dec 9, 2016 | Blog
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/hate-filled-incidents-stand-as-dark-cloud-over-our_us_584878f8e4b08f092ddd98d1 Co-authored by Kristen Clarke & Richard Cohen On Monday, December 5th, a Muslim New York City police officer was shoved down the stairs at a subway...
by Press | Nov 1, 2016 | Blog
Updated 1:23 PM ET, Tue November 1, 2016 Early voting has allowed many Americans to post their “I Voted” stickers on social media. Story highlights Kristen Clarke: High court ruling on Voting Rights Act has harsh repercussions for 2016 Voting rights...
by Press | Aug 9, 2016 | Blog
Activism creates economic, political or social change. It comes in all forms, from litigating and lobbying to strikes and sit-ins. Fifty years ago, during the American Civil Rights Movement, a few good men led the fight for many who were suffering from economic and...
by Press | Aug 6, 2016 | Blog
In 1964, at the height of the Civil Rights Movement, President Lyndon B. Johnson recognized the shortcomings of the Civil Rights Act and instructed Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach to draft “the goddamndest, toughest voting rights act that you can.” One year...
by Press | Aug 5, 2016 | Blog
Beginning in 2005, many states began passing overly restrictive voter identification laws; laws that limit the types of identification that that voters could use when voting in person. When the United States Supreme Court upheld Indiana’s law against a facial...
by Press | Aug 4, 2016 | Blog
Today marks the 52nd anniversary of the Mississippi Summer Project. During the summer of 1964, a coalition of civil rights organizations, led by the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and Congress on Racial Equality (CORE), organized a movement geared...
