Voter Empowerment and Education Newsletter

After hosting our Voter Protection and Mobilization Summit at the beginning of this month, EJS is proud to continue the conversation with a curated bi-monthly newsletter. Here’s the election and voter protection news that has been front and center for us: WI 2020 Primary Election | NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund https://bit.ly/3emTazZWertheimer's Political Report:ContinueContinue reading “Voter Empowerment and Education Newsletter”

This Week in White Supremacy #119: California’s health directors say they have zero data on POC who are infected with or dying from COVID-19

Colorlines – Black and Brown people in large cities are being hit hard by the COVID-19 crisis—WBEZ in Chicago confirmed that as of March 4, 70 percent of Cook County’s deaths were Black; in cities like New Orleans, Detroit and Milwaukee, Black people are dying at astronomical rates—and Los Angeles’ public health director Barbara FerrerContinueContinue reading “This Week in White Supremacy #119: California’s health directors say they have zero data on POC who are infected with or dying from COVID-19”

This Week in White Supremacy, Week #118: White supremacists discussed using coronavirus as a bioweapon

Yahoo News – White supremacists discussed plans to weaponize coronavirus via “saliva,” a “spray bottle” or “laced items,” according to a weekly intelligence brief distributed by a federal law enforcement division on Feb. 17. https://yhoo.it/2ygLYVL THE GOOD NEWS FIRST: Janai Nelson on Twitter: “Today, March 20, 2020, the NAACP Legal Defense Fund turns 80 yearsContinueContinue reading “This Week in White Supremacy, Week #118: White supremacists discussed using coronavirus as a bioweapon”