Black women call for more action to stop the attack on voting rights.
For Immediate Release
May 15, 2017
Contact: Amy Lebowitz, Camino PR
amy@caminopr.com / 212-255-2575
Statement from In Our Own Voice
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, the U.S. Supreme Court let stand the decision of lower court in the North Carolina voting rights case, which ruled that the 2013 voting law discriminated against African Americans “with almost surgical precision.” Marcela Howell, founder and executive director of In Our Own Voice: National Black Women’s Reproductive Justice Agenda, issued the following statement in response:
“The Supreme Court’s refusal to hear the North Carolina voting rights case is a small step in the right direction for civil rights. Efforts to suppress Black voters have ramped up across the country and must be stopped.