by Michael Lawson | Apr 22, 2022 | President Message, Politics
Historic voter turnout in the 2020 election sparked the beginning of one of the most dangerous partisan attacks on voting rights in American history. Fueled by the “Big Lie” and a record number of voters from communities of color using mail-in ballots and...
by Michael Lawson | Mar 5, 2022 | President Message, Advocacy, Politics
On February 25, President Joe Biden announced the nomination of Ketanji Brown Jackson as the 116th Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. If confirmed, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson will be the first Black woman to sit on the highest court in the...
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...
