August - 2021

WCP Story of the Week

Greyston CEO Awarded Health Champion Award

YONKERS, N.Y. – Joe Kenner, President and CEO of the Greyston Foundation, has been awarded the Jerry Noyce Executive Health Champion...

Twin Lawyers Team Up on a New Kind of Case

Nyack, NY— August 24, 2021 — Identical twin lawyers, turn sauce-entrepreneurs, Alice and Alicia Crowe, proud Howard University School of...

NUL Partners with Rev. Sharpton, MLK, III, to Demand Free and Fair Access to the Ballot for Every Am

At the time of the 1963 March on Washington, where 23-year-old John Lewis was the youngest speaker, fewer than 20 percent of the Black...

2020 Census Update – The Lines, They Are A-Changin’

New York’s Independent Redistricting Commission completed its statewide listening tour on Sunday, August 15, 2021. During each leg of...

Twenty Years after 9/11, Taliban Retakes Afghanistan

Even as President Joe Biden announced earlier this year that the United States would entirely withdraw from Afghanistan, Taliban fighters...

Reps. Mondaire Jones & Ruben Gallego’s Inclusive Elections Act Included in John Lewis Voting Rights

WASHINGTON, DC — Today, H.R. 4, the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act, was introduced in the House with key provisions of...

Updated Voting Rights Bill Set for Late August House Floor Vote

As hundreds of civil rights advocates complete plans for a series of events across the country to heighten the need for new and stronger...

Miles to Go Before We Rest

For members of Texas Legislature and those who work in its orbit, the days since the 87th Regular Session ended on Memorial Day have been...