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WASHINGTON – Vanita Gupta, president and CEO of The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, issued the following statement after Judge Robert Michael Dow Jr. of the Northern District of Illinois approved the consent decree to enforce reforms to the Chicago Police Department:
WASHINGTON – The Leadership Conference Education Fund, with Ethnic Media Services, hosted a telephone press briefing today featuring the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials (NALEO) Educational Fund, Asian Americans Advancing Justice | AAJC, and the National Urban League to discuss the importance of the 2020 Census to communities of color and efforts to remove the citizenship question from the 2020 Census.
WASHINGTON –The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights and 44 national and local education and civil rights groups sent a letter today to Assistant Secretary Ken Marcus and the Department of Education responding to the Department’s Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) to amend rules implementing Title IX.
WASHINGTON – Vanita Gupta, president and CEO of The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, issued the following statement in support of the introduction of The Paycheck Fairness Act:
WASHINGTON – The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights and 44 national and local education and civil rights groups sent a letter today to Assistant Secretary Ken Marcus and the Department of Education responding to the Department’s Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) to amend rules implementing Title IX.
WASHINGTON – On Wednesday, January 30 at 2:00 p.m. ET, leading civil rights organizations and census experts will host a telephone press briefing to discuss the pending citizenship question lawsuits, including the New York federal court’s ruling to block the U.S. Department of Commerce’s attempt to add a citizenship question to the 2020 Census, and the role of Congress in making sure the count is accurate and fair.
WASHINGTON – Vanita Gupta, president and CEO of The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, will testify before the House Judiciary Committee today in its hearing on H.R. 1, the “For the People Act of 2019.”
WASHINGTON – Ahead of the Senate Judiciary Committee’s scheduled vote Tuesday, The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights and 78 civil rights, religious, and progressive groups sent a letter to the Senate opposing William Barr’s nomination to be U.S. Attorney General.
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