We have worked together on anti-lynching laws, school desegregation, voting rights legislation, hate crime laws and criminal-justice reform. Either organization simply could stand on its legacy, especially on a day set aside to remember a hero of the civil rights battles of the past. We will debunk phantom claims of voter fraud and fiercely meet any effort to suppress voting rights or relax Justice Department enforcement of the Voting Rights Act. These are the values that will guide this “coalition of now” as we stand — and fight — together today. We are as one, bound by the common cause of civil rights, justice and fair treatment for all Americans.

Source: Washington Post January 16, 2017 15:44 UTC