NEW YORK and WASHINGTON, D.C. – The nation’s leading civil rights organizations, state and federal legislators, and other advocates and officials will hold a virtual media briefing on Thursday, April 30, at 11am Eastern Time, to discuss a path forward following the U.S. Supreme Court’s devastating blow to the Voting Rights Act with its decision in in Louisiana v. Callais.

The ruling threatens to invite a new wave of discriminatory redistricting across the country and to roll back decades of hard‑fought progress that brought the nation closer to a democracy where every voice matters equally. 

Participants include:

 Marc H. Morial, President and CEO, National Urban League

Janai Nelson, President and Director-Counsel, LDF

Rev. Al Sharpton, Founder and President, National Action Network

Melanie Campbell, President and CEO, National Coalition on Black Civic Participation

Damon Hewitt, President and Executive Director, Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law

Rev. Shavon Arline-Bradley, President and CEO, NCNW

Maya Wiley, President and CEO, Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights 

John C. Yang, President and Executive Director, Asian Americans Advancing Justice | AAJC  

Janet Murguía, President and CEO, UnidosUS

Juan Proaño, CEO, LULAC

Kristen Clarke, General Counsel, NAACP

Nick Brown, Attorney General of Washington State 

U.S. Representative Troy Carter (D-LA) 

State Representative Harold Love, Jr. (D-TN), President, National Black Caucus of State Legislators