Maya Wiley: Southern Poverty Law Center Indictment Is Part of Trump’s Broader Attack on Civil Rights

Attorney and civil rights activist Maya Wiley responds to the Justice Department’s fraud case against the Southern Poverty Law Center, which centers on the group’s history of paying individuals to infiltrate white supremacist groups in order to monitor their activities. The SPLC has rejected the charges as politically motivated, saying its informant program was used to monitor threats of violence and that the information gathered was routinely shared with local and federal law enforcement. “It’s political persecution,” says Wiley, head of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, a civil rights coalition that includes the SPLC. “There’s a pattern in the development of tyranny in countries across the globe where the person who wants to have that power finds ways to discredit the lawful advocacy of organizations that are fighting to ensure that democracy survives,” she says.

Supreme Court Guts Voting Rights Act in “Devastating Blow” to Democracy & Civil Rights: Maya Wiley

The U.S. Supreme Court has effectively gutted Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, the last remaining major provision of the landmark 1965 law that was a crowning achievement of the civil rights movement. In a 6-3 decision along partisan lines, a majority of justices ruled Wednesday that Louisiana must redraw a congressional map that was designed to create a second majority-Black district in the state, where African Americans have long faced racial segregation and barriers to voting. They said the electoral map “relied too heavily on race,” an interpretation that is set to usher in another wave of redistricting across the South to help Republicans win more seats in Congress. “This is central to whether or not we maintain a multiracial democracy in this country,” says lawyer and civil rights activist Maya Wiley, head of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights. She calls Wednesday’s ruling “a free pass to discriminate.”

David Banks, New York City’s Schools Chancellor, to Resign

The resignation of Mr. Banks, planned for the end of the year, comes amid a flurry of federal investigations into Mayor Eric Adams and his administration.

‘It is a train that is never late’: Trump, GOP escalate racist and predictable attacks on VP Harris

Erin Haines, Editor at Large for The 19th, Maya Wiley, former Assistant U.S. Attorney and Eddie Glaude, Princeton University Professor join Nicolle Wallace on Deadline White House with reaction to the predictable but still racist attacks against VP Kamala Harris from the Trump campaign and GOP as her candidacy continues to rise. 

‘It is a train that is never late’: Trump, GOP escalate racist and predictable attacks on VP Harris

Erin Haines, Editor at Large for The 19th, Maya Wiley, former Assistant U.S. Attorney and Eddie Glaude, Princeton University Professor join Nicolle Wallace on Deadline White House with reaction to the predictable but still racist attacks against VP Kamala Harris from the Trump campaign and GOP as her candidacy continues to rise. 

Florida New College Students Plan Alternative Graduation Against Trump Pandemic Adviser

Civil rights leader and CEO of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights Maya Wiley will be the keynote speaker at the alternative graduation event on Thursday, May 18. SARASOTA — Student…

'Bye-bye, baby': Experts affirmatively conclude 'yes, it's happening' — Trump is getting indicted