by Press | Jul 3, 2024 | Press Releases
JACKSON, Miss. — A federal court has ordered Mississippi to redraw its 2022 state legislative maps in several areas after concluding those maps unlawfully dilute the voting strength of Black Mississippians. Civil rights advocates challenged the maps and showed at...
by Press | May 24, 2024 | Press Releases
WASHINGTON–On Thursday, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a decision in Alexander v. South Carolina State Conference of the NAACP, reversing a federal court’s finding that ruled South Carolina’s redistricting of Congressional District 1...
by Press | Mar 10, 2022 | Press Releases
(Washington, DC) – The Census Bureau announced Thursday that the 2020 census significantly undercounted the country’s Black, Latino, and Indigenous communities. Non-white Hispanics were overcounted slightly. The 2020 census undercounted the country’s population...
by Press | Dec 30, 2021 | Press Releases
(Atlanta, GA) — The Georgia General Assembly approved redistricting maps for the state house, the state senate, and U.S. Congress that are based on the unconstitutional and impermissible use of race. These racially gerrymandered maps dilute the voting strength of...
by Press | Dec 17, 2021 | Press Releases
(Washington, D.C.) – Virginia must do more to protect fair representation for Black voters in their new statewide redistricting maps, according to a public comment submitted to the Supreme Court of Virginia on Friday by the Virginia State Conference of the...
