by Michael Lawson | Sep 17, 2021 | President Message, Politics
Today, September 17, 2021, is National Black Voter Registration Day. The Los Angeles Urban League and the National Urban League celebrate National Black Voter Registration Day in partnership with BET and more than 40 other social justice organizations. With the...
by Michael Lawson | Sep 3, 2021 | President Message, Politics
Since its inception in 1911, the California Recall system has been flawed. The system allows a small group of voters to initiate the recall of a sitting governor. In addition, the system enables an opposing candidate to be installed as governor even if the current...
by Michael Lawson | Aug 20, 2021 | President Message, Advocacy, Politics
Next month’s California recall election on September 14 is a result of direct democracy at work. Since 1911, our state has allowed for recall elections against current officeholders. Every Governor of California has faced a recall since 1960, but a recall effort...
by Michael Lawson | Aug 13, 2021 | President Message, Advocacy, Politics
August 6 marked 56 years since the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to enforce the Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, ratified 95 years earlier. The purpose of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 was to eliminate the tremendous obstacles that...
by Michael Lawson | Jul 16, 2021 | President Message, Advocacy, Politics
The act of participating in our democracy begins with the right to vote. In 2020, 73% of all voting-age US citizens were registered to vote, and 67% of all citizens age18 and older reported voting, an increase of 17 million more than voted in 2016. We should be proud...
by Michael Lawson | Apr 17, 2021 | President Message, Politics, Race
This week Maryland took a bold and essential step toward meaningful police reform. The Maryland legislature overrode the Republican governor’s veto and adopted landmark legislation that will set new rules regarding the use of force, establish new investigative...
