Press Release

WASHINGTON — The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights’ Voting Record, which reflects the recorded votes taken by every senator and representative on the legislative priorities of The Leadership Conference and its coalition members, found that last year was one of the few first sessions of a Congress in recent history in which neither chamber passed meaningful civil rights legislation as scored by our Voting Record.

WASHINGTON — Maya Wiley, president and CEO of The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, released the following statement after the Senate confirmed Judge Melissa DuBose to the U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island:

WASHINGTON — Maya Wiley, president and CEO of The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, released the following statement after President Biden’s State of the Union address:

WASHINGTON — Leslie Proll, senior director of the voting rights program at The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, released the following statement celebrating the reintroduction of the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act in the Senate:

WASHINGTON — Leslie Proll, senior director of the voting rights program at The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, and Yterenickia 'YT' Bell, senior director of the And Still I Vote program, released the following statement celebrating the U.S. Department of Education’s toolkit for promoting civic engagement and voter registration activities for students.

WASHINGTON — The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, along with 91 national and local advocacy organizations, called on President Biden and congressional appropriators to double the funding for the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR). OCR cannot fulfill its responsibility to protect the civil rights of all students without adequate resources.

WASHINGTON — Lena Zwarensteyn, senior director of the fair courts program at The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, released the following statement after the Senate Judiciary Committee’s hearing on several judicial nominees, including the nomination of Amir Ali to the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia:

WASHINGTON – Following Robert F. Kennedy Jr. attempting to justify the illegal wiretaps of Martin Luther King Jr., and with a movement to release the tapes, Maya Wiley, President and CEO of The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, and Derrick Johnson, CEO of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People wrote an op-ed in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution saying that the illegally obtained surveillance must not be released.