by Press | Jun 4, 2019 | Newsclips
Tequila Johnson lists off laundromats, nightclubs and churches. Those are the places her team of 150 volunteers visited during the midterm elections last year, registering black voters across Tennessee. In the end, she estimates The Equity Alliance, where she is...
by Press | Jun 4, 2019 | Press Releases
Washington, D.C. – Today, as the United States recognizes the historic anniversary commemorating the passage of the 19th Amendment which secured the right to vote for women, Kristen Clarke, president and executive director of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights...
by Press | Jun 3, 2019 | Newsclips
A rural, majority African American county in Georgia that backed off a contentious plan to close most of its voting locations before last year’s election is now evaluating the costs of repairing its precincts. The revived review of voting locations raised...
by Press | May 31, 2019 | Press Releases
Despite abandoning plans to close all but two of nine polling sites in 2018 in the wake of local and national backlash, voting rights advocates condemn the decision of Randolph County election officials to renew consideration of polling site closures in this...
by Press | May 8, 2019 | Press Releases
Washington, D.C. – Today, the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law condemns the Florida legislature for passing SB 7066, legislation that undermines the will of the people who passed Amendment 4 to the Florida Constitution. Amendment 4 would restore voting...
