by Press | Nov 23, 2021 | Press Releases
(Washington, D.C.) –Jurors awarded more than $25 million in damages to plaintiffs in Sines v. Kessler, a suit seeking to hold the organizers of the 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville accountable for violence that left numerous people injured and one person...
by Press | Nov 19, 2021 | Press Releases
(Washington, D.C.) – Following a tense trial, a Wisconsin jury found Kyle Rittenhouse not guilty of all charges on Friday. Rittenhouse, now 18, killed two men and wounded a third during a night of racial justice demonstrations in the summer of 2020 in Kenosha,...
by Press | Nov 15, 2021 | Press Releases
Washington, D.C.- The United States Supreme Court plays an essential role in upholding and protecting the constitutional and civil rights of Black Americans and other people of color. However, in recent years, the public has begun to lose faith in the Court’s...
by Press | Nov 5, 2021 | Press Releases
(Washington, D.C.) — The U.S. Senate held a procedural vote on Wednesday to consider the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act. Although all 50 Democrats in the Senate voted in favor, joined by Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski, Republican Senate Leadership...
by Press | Oct 28, 2021 | Press Releases
WASHINGTON, D.C. (October 28, 2021) — The leaders of the nation’s top historic civil rights organizations released the following joint readout on their meeting today with Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia: “Citing the deteriorating crisis of democracy that...
