Advancement Project has an inspired team of organizers, lawyers, dreamers and thinkers fighting for racial justice. One of our many contributors to the Movement is the Chairperson of our Board of Directors, Bill Lann Lee, who has had a distinguished legal career as a civil rights lawyer and advocate. Have you ever wanted to know […]
By Jennifer Lai-Peterson, Power and Democracy Senior Attorney In early 2005, I moved to New Orleans to work alongside former members of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). While supporting their campaign, I found myself re-reading U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Marshall Harlan’s renowned dissent in Plessy v. Ferguson, the infamous 1896 decision legalizing racial […]
The state’s primary was a nightmare and the perfect example of how not to run an election.
Coalition files complaint to block implementation of SB 202 in Georgia
WASHINGTON, DC — In response to the mass shooting at The Covenant School in Nashville, Tennessee, the National Campaign for Police Free Schools released these statements from Advancement Project and Alliance for Educational Justice, co-conveners of the campaign: “Once again we are mourning alongside a grieving community. We are devastated by the tragic murders of […]
Groups Support NDORH with Prayer Vigil and Tele Town Hall
"Compelling players to stand for the national anthem... tells the world that the NFL does not care about racial justice."
WASHINGTON, DC — The Denver Public School Board has suspended its policy prohibiting police in schools through the end of June. This sudden decision came about in response to a school shooting at East High School in Denver, the third shooting at that high school this year. It is the latest in a nationwide trend […]
The following is a history of key litigation of criminal disenfranchisement across 50 states, Puerto Rico, and the District of Columbia. It identifies the racist history of criminal disenfranchisement laws and the disparate impact of these laws today on Black and Latinx communities. This was one of the materials presented at our Rights Restoration Convening […]