WASHINGTON — Maya Wiley, president and CEO of The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, issued the following statement upon the passing of former AFSCME President Gerald “Jerry” McEntee, who The Leadership Conference honored in 2004 with the Hubert H. Humphrey Civil and Human Rights Award:
WASHINGTON — Maya Wiley, president and CEO of The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, issued the following statement upon the retirement of Associate Justice Stephen Breyer and the swearing in of Ketanji Brown Jackson as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court:
WASHINGTON — Jesselyn McCurdy, executive vice president of government affairs at The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, issued the following statement on passage of the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act
WASHINGTON — Maya Wiley, president and CEO of The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, released the following statement after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization to end the constitutional right to abortion:
WASHINGTON – Meeta Anand, senior director of the census and data equity program at The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, released the following statement after the House passed H.R. 4176, the LGBTQI+ Data Inclusion Act:
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 hearing on the nominations of Rachel Bloomekatz to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit and Judge Elizabeth Hanes to the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia:
WASHINGTON – The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, joined by 150 national civil and human rights organizations, condemned discriminatory legislation that would harm both cisgender and transgender girls and women. Citing the unprecedented wave of proposed and enacted laws across the country that aim to make participating in school intolerable for LGBTQI+ students, and especially transgender students, the open letter calls for policymakers to reject attacks on transgender youth and commit to the full inclusion of transgender students in educational opportunities.
WASHINGTON – As the nation marks the first anniversary of the Juneteenth National Independence Day Act, The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, along with 30 organizations, called on President Biden to advance economic justice policies that will benefit Black communities and continue to build upon his administration’s efforts to confront discrimination and racial disparities.