RAINBOW PUSH COALITION

Members of the Rainbow PUSH Coalition gathered outside of Wolfie’s Restaurant to condemn the owners’ actions after he was accused of assaulting Black women at the restaurant.

The Texas Rainbow PUSH Coalition has organized an “Emergency Call to Action” press conference Tuesday in response to reports of children in the Department of Family and Protective Services’ care allegedly being sexually exploited and trafficked by employees in the foster care system.

The grandmother of an 11-year-old Aldine ISD wants the principal and three teacher aides at Marine Jones Middle School fired.

The advocacy organization released a report detailing voting access for jail inmates with Rainbow PUSH Coalition, a civil rights advocacy group formed by the Rev. The advocacy organization released a report detailing voting access for jail inmates with Rainbow PUSH Coalition, a civil rights advocacy group formed by the Rev. “The way to avoid that is to not get arrested or get sentenced to jail.”Efforts to increase voting access for incarcerated people aren't new. A 1974 U.S. Supreme Court decision upheld the voting rights of some incarcerated people without government interference, though some lower courts have allowed more restrictive absentee voting deadlines for detainees in some states. In March, the Cook County Jail in Chicago, Illinois became one of the first in the nation to operate as a jail polling station.