News Releases
Advancement Project Co-Director, Penda Hair Explores White Activists and the Racial Justice Movement
Tuesday, August 31, 2010Press Release
Advancement Project, Co-Director, Penda Hair is featured in Fire in the Heart: How White Activists Embrace Racial Justice, a book by leading sociologist, Mark Warner. Fire in the Heart uncovers the dynamic processes through which some white Americans become activists for racial justice. The book details powerful accounts of the development of racial awareness drawn from in-depth interviews with fifty white activists in the fields of community organizing, education, and criminal justice reform.
Read moreOut of Sight, Out of Mind
Monday, August 30, 2010Press Release
It has been five years since Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast, and more than four months since the BP oil rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico. Responsible parties would like us to believe that these crises are over, but Out of Sight, Out of Mind tells a different story. Through personal accounts, we hear harrowing accounts of the truth: The decisions of public and private actors following these disasters have caused displacement and long-term devastating affects on individuals and communities.
Read moreVictory for Workers Rights in Prince George’s County
Tuesday, July 13, 2010Press Release
From Advancement Project Regarding CB-36-2010
Read morePrince George’s County Taxicab Drivers Hopeful that Justice is on the Horizon
Tuesday, July 6, 2010Press Release
After more than three years of struggle, the taxicab industry in Prince George’s County might finally be getting a much needed overhaul. Proposed legislation from the more than 500 members of the Prince George’s County Taxi Workers Alliance (CB-36-2010) was voted out of the Council’s Transportation, Housing and Environment Committee on June 10th and was introduced on June 15th to the City Council. The bill is scheduled for a public hearing on Tuesday July 13th with a final vote immediately following.
Read morePartisan Games Means Continue Barriers to the Ballot Box for Ohio Voters
Friday, June 11, 2010Press Release
(Columbus, Ohio)—Today, Advancement Project, a leading voter protection advocacy organization, released an issue brief examining the ramifications if Ohio lawmakers fail to enact comprehensive election reform to correct provisions of the election code that impede the ability of voters to participate in elections.
Read moreDue to Legislative Inaction Florida Voters May Experience Barriers to Ballot Box
Tuesday, June 1, 2010Press Release
(Miami, Florida)—Today, Advancement Project, a leading voter protection advocacy organization, released an issue brief examining the ramifications of the Florida legislature’s failure to enact comprehensive election reform to correct provisions of the election code that impede the ability of voters to participate in elections.
Read moreWe Call These Projects Home: Solving the Housing Crisis from the Ground Up
Tuesday, May 18, 2010Press Release
Advancement Project is proud to release the report We Call These Projects Home: Solving the Housing Crisis from the Ground Up in partnership with the Right to the City Alliance (RTTC) and the Urban Justice Center’s Community Development Project. The report was unveiled this morning at a legislative briefing co-sponsored by Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) and Rep. Nydia Velazquez (D-NY).
Read moreVoting Rights Groups Declare “Mission Accomplished” at the Close of the Legislative Session
Friday, May 14, 2010Press Release
(May, 14, 2010, Jefferson City, MO)—Advancement Project and its allies have successfully defeated repressive voting proposals. Last week, the Senate Financial, Governmental Organizations & Elections Committee voted to bring wrongheaded voting reform legislation to the full Senate, including onerous voter ID requirements and restrictive advance voting provisions that had the potential to disenfranchise more than 200,000 Missouri voters and constitutionally lock the state into an undesirable and unworkable advance voting structure.
Read moreAFFORDABLE HOUSING IN NEW ORLEANS IS IN JEOPARDY
Tuesday, March 9, 2010Press Release
(March 9, 2010, New Orleans, Louisiana) —Last week, Advancement Project, a national civil rights organization, and the law firm of Jenner & Block filed a report in U.S. District Court exposing the incompetence of the Housing Authority of New Orleans (HANO). In a recent report written by U.S.
Read moreSIGNIFICANT RACIAL DISPARITIES IN DISBURSEMENT OF STIMULUS FUNDING
Wednesday, February 17, 2010Press Release
Today marks one year since the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) was signed into law. An analysis by Advancement Project, a national civil rights organization, of state ARRA fund allocations in 2009 and their diversity levels reveals states with greater racial and ethnic diversity received less funds in 2009. The range for ARRA spending per state resident starts at a low of $491 in Florida and goes to a high of $2289 in Alaska.
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