By Wade Henderson (Founding Board Member, Center for Responsible Lending) From attacks on voting rights to police killings of unarmed civilians and growing inequities in earnings and wealth, the civil rights gains of the past six decades are facing threat after threat. But one front in the fight for full equality— meaningful access to higher […]
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Give Communities of Color a Voice in Reshaping Education
By Wade Henderson President and CEO, The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights For the first time in our nation’s history, the majority of students in public schools are students of color. But in most places, communities of color still have little meaningful say in how their states manage and resource education. As a […]
Supreme Court Puts Reliable Government Jobs At-Risk
by Wade Henderson NNPA News Wire Guest Columnist Both of my parents worked in stable government jobs, so I had the privilege of growing up in a family that owned a home, a car, and set me on a path to college and even law school. Among members of the African-American middle class, my story […]
Commemorating the 50th Anniversary of Voting Rights Legislation
By Aubrey Koski March 20, 2015 Sunday marked the 50th anniversary of president Lyndon B. Johnson’s 1965 speech urging Congress to enact voting rights legislation. President Johnson’s speech, delivered before Congress on March 15, 1965, culminated in the Voting Rights Act of 1965, one of the nation’s hallmark Civil Rights legislative […]
Critics Say GOP Education Reform Would Hurt Poor and Black Students
By Freddie Allen, Senior NNPA Washington Correspondent March 6, 2015 Wade Henderson, president and CEO of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, said that a strong ESEA is vital to ensuring that states and school districts are living up to their obligation to provide a quality education for all. (Freddie Allen/NNPA/File Photo) […]
Blacks Underrepresented in STEM Classes
By Freddie Allen, NNPA Senior Washington Correspondent February 27, 2015 Wade Henderson, president and CEO of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights talks about the 2014 Voting Rights Amendment Act at a press conference on Capitol Hill. (Freddie Allen/NNPA) WASHINGTON, D.C. (NNPA) — Many young African Americans will be shut […]
Civil Rights Leaders Upset Over Non-Voting Rights Act Hearing
By James Wright February 13, 2015 President Lyndon Johnson (left), Martin Luther King (right) and Whitney Young in 1965 (AP Photo) Special to the NNPA from the Afro-American Newspaper Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.), chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, he sparked controversy on Jan. 14 saying that, “The Voting Rights Amendment Act” […]