by Press | Apr 14, 2011 | Blog, Letters from the Executive Director
With the 2012 election less than two years away, voter suppression efforts are already in high gear across the nation. There is a persistent and well-coordinated effort in state legislatures to deter minority, low-income, elderly, disabled and student voters from...
by Press | Apr 5, 2011 | Blog, Letters from the Executive Director
As the nation marks the 43rd anniversary of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination, which occurred as a result of his intervention and support of the Memphis Sanitation Workers Strike, it is important for the American public to remember the historic and...
by Press | Feb 28, 2011 | Blog, Letters from the Executive Director
(Trice Edney News Wire, February 25, 2011) Those Who Don’t Learn from History are Destined to Repeat It Our unique heritage as a free society is being threatened by a terrible proposal to delete a fundamental Constitutional protection from the 14th Amendment of...
by Press | Jan 18, 2011 | Blog, Letters from the Executive Director
The Lawyers’ Committee, with the Mississippi Center for Justice (MCJ), scored a major victory for low-income, largely African-American residents of the Gulf Coast region when the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) approved on November 8, 2010 a...
by Press | Dec 2, 2010 | Blog, Letters from the Executive Director
As the year draws to a close, our mission of promoting racial equality and equal opportunity in our nation is paradoxically both threatened and strengthened on many fronts in an ever evolving and changing political and economic climate. We have witnessed a tremendous...
by Press | Sep 24, 2010 | Blog, Letters from the Executive Director
In 2008, most Americans, regardless of race, were proud that in our country Barack Obama could win election to the highest office in the land. His election as President represented a historic milestone in the struggle for racial equality in America. Indeed, there were...
