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WILMINGTON, Del.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Today, Citizens for a Pro-Business Delaware (CPBD) released a new TV advertisement featuring legendary Civil Rights activist Rev. Al Sharpton demanding diverse courts to deliver justice for Delawares communities of color. Sharpton contrasts President Joe Bidens commitment to appointing people of color to the federal judiciary with the failure of Delawares leaders, including Governor John Carney, to prioritize diversity.

Said Reverend Al Sharpton, Weve been fighting for years to put Black people on Delawares courts, but the Chancery Court is still all white. I commend President Biden for putting court diversity front and center on the national stage, but his home state of Delaware continues to lag behind and its leaders - including its judicial diversity task force - have repeatedly refused to meet with me. Im proud to lend my voice to this crucial fight and activate Delaware residents to demand that their leaders act now to put Black people on the states top courts.

CPBD has placed an initial three-week, $550,000+ TV advertising buy to run the ad on broadcast and cable television throughout Delaware and in Washington, D.C.. Additional ad buys will follow.

The ad will complement $50,000+ print, digital, and social media buys targeting Delawareans to build awareness of the issue, and urge the states residents to make their voices heard by demanding Governor Carney prioritize judicial diversity. CPBD has already executed public awareness and door-knocking campaigns that have recruited thousands of Delaware residents to email their elected officials to appoint people of color to the courts.

Said Citizens for a Pro-Business Delaware Campaign Manager Chris Coffey, Reverend Al Sharpton is a towering figure in the American civil rights movement. Its an outrage that Delawares leaders have failed to meet with him and local activists like Pastor Blaine Hackett to hear their insights on making Delawares courts work for communities of color, while President Biden has repeatedly met with Sharpton and taken tangible steps to diversify the federal courts.

Were proud to amplify Reverend Sharptons voice as we continue this fight - and it is a fight. We have witnessed thousands of Delaware residents respond to our calls for action and demand real change - but the lack of concrete action from Delawares leaders has been disheartening. We wont stop until Delawares leaders heed the calls of the thousands of Delawareans who are demanding diverse courts now.

CPBD will once again offer a platform for Delaware residents to urge Governor Carney to commit to diversifying Delawares courts.

The full script of the ad, voiced by Reverend Sharpton, is below:

Look closely. Does anything jump out?

Weve been fighting for years - in the streets, in our communities - to put Black people on Delawares courts.

But the Chancery Court is still all white.

When I talked to President Biden, he told me he would put court diversity front and center on the national stage - and he has.

But in Bidens home state of Delaware, leaders talk about diversity, while nothing actually changes.

I've offered to meet with the government, and state leaders, over and over with no success.

Even the states judicial diversity taskforce refuses to meet with me.

Because in Delaware, who you know still matters more than what you bring to the table.

So Im bringing my message to you, the people: no more talking, we need action. We need diverse courts now.

Citizens for a Pro-Business Delaware is a group made up of more than 5,000 members including employees of the global translation services company TransPerfect, as well as concerned Delaware residents, business executives, and others. They formed in April of 2016 to focus on raising awareness with Delaware residents, elected officials, and other stakeholders about the unprecedented forced sale of TransPerfect. While their primary goal of saving the company has been accomplished, they continue their efforts to fight for more transparency in the Delaware Chancery Court. For more information on Citizens for a Pro-Business Delaware or to join the cause, visit DelawareForBusiness.org.

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Mr. Cuomo has also lost the support of nearly every major union in New York State: the unions representing hotel workers, teachers, building service workers, transit workers, retail workers and municipal employees, as well as the head of New Yorks umbrella labor organization, the AFL-CIO.

Laura Curran, whom Mr. Cuomo backed for Nassau County executive and whose swearing-in he memorialized on his website, has also called for him to resign. In an interview, she suggested that his defense on Tuesday was tone-deaf and fell flat in her suburban county, which backed him in the 2018 primary with nearly 78 percent of the vote.

Im hearing, you know, his tone of his own victimhood, and his tone of self-pity, was the wrong note to hit, she said. Thats what people found really off-putting. Along with, of course, the findings. But that on top of it that this was something that was being done to him is a turnoff to many people that Im speaking to.

Those who have not demanded the governors head some of them longtime allies who have business before the state are avoiding making public statements on his standing.

Mr. Gresham, the president of 1199 SEIU, a powerful health care union, declined multiple requests for comment. A spokesman for the New York State Public Employees Federation also said nothing. Gary LaBarbera, the president of the Building and Construction Trades Council of Greater New York, was similarly circumspect.

According to his spokesman, Jordan Isenstadt, the union is letting the process play out.

On Tuesday evening, the Rev. Al Sharpton, the civil rights activist, met with New York City leaders at the National Action Network, then had a Wednesday-morning call with leaders from upstate New York.

We have not come to a consensus, Mr. Sharpton said on Wednesday afternoon. But I can say it is leaning heavily toward calling for his resignation.

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State Rep. Ron Reynolds and U.S. Rep. Al Green were both arrested Tuesday at the U.S. Capitol while demonstrating for federal voting legislation.

The two Democratic lawmakers were at a rally organized by the National Clergy United for Justice that civil rights activists Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton also attended.

Green, a Houston Democrat, told The Texas Tribune that he and his colleagues moved to the street after praying in front of the Supreme Court when they were approached by Capitol police. He said protesters were told they would be arrested if they hadnt moved after three warnings.

According to Greens office, the lawmakers were arrested on charges of crowding, obstructing, or incommoding.

Reynolds, of Missouri City, is the first Texas House Democrat arrested during the groups decampment to Washington, D.C., to block a state voting restrictions bill. The state lawmakers have been out of Texas for more than three weeks. Theyve spent that time lobbying their federal counterparts to pass voting rights legislation like the For the People Act, which they believe could preempt the proposed voting restrictions back home.

The state has a long history of voter suppression, and the latest iteration of it involves denying people the right to vote in hours that are convenient to them when theyre getting off of work, Green said in reference to one aspect of the GOP-backed voter restrictions, which looks to ban 24-hour voting in the state.

Reynolds said in an interview that he remains confident in his partys efforts to stall the bills because the special session ends this week.

I think that our position is strong. Were essentially a few days away from killing all [Gov. Greg] Abbotts items that he put on call for the special session, he said.

Still, Abbott has vowed to continue calling special sessions until the Texas bill passes.

Tuesdays arrests come after U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Houston, was arrested last week as she demonstrated in support of federal voting legislation.

Efforts to pass federal voting legislation have remained futile, mainly because of a filibuster backed by the GOP and Democratic senators like Kyrsten Sinema and Joe Manchin that requires 60 senators to put a bill on the floor. If passed, the For the People Act would end partisan gerrymandering and create a nationwide automatic voter registration system.

We believe that this has been a very necessary trip where we have moved the needle. Now we havent gotten federal legislation passed, but were certainly right there a lot closer than we were when we came here to D.C. three weeks ago, Reynolds said.

In a video posted from Greens Twitter account Tuesday, he and Reynolds sang along to We Shall Overcome as Capitol police officers came over to handcuff them. The song was a frequent refrain during the civil rights movement of the 1960s.

The post was captioned with the hashtag #GoodTrouble a reference to the late congressman and civil rights leader John Lewis, who encouraged defying the law in pursuit of moral good.

Get in good trouble, necessary trouble, and help redeem the soul of America, Lewis said on the 55th anniversary of Bloody Sunday, when civil rights marchers were assaulted by state and local police at the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama.

Another one of the federal voting bills stalled in Congress is the John Lewis Voting Rights Act, which could bring back federal preclearance a policy that gives the federal government the authority to vet state voting laws for discrimination against voters of color.

For Green, the references to Lewis are personal.

I was arrested twice with John Lewis, and we were taken to jail, Green said. And we were detained and jailed for some time he and I were cellmates.

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The Rev. Al Sharpton and civil rights attorney Ben Crump are shifting their focus to a white teenager who was killed by police in Arkansas, after advocacy efforts that largely focused on Black individuals who have died during police encounters.

Sharpton and Crump were two of the mostprominent figuresfollowing themurder of George Floyd, a Black man who died in May 2020 after a white Minneapolis police officer knelt on his neck for more than nine minutes.

Crump, who represented Floyds family after the incident,has also represented the families of Breonna Taylor and Michael Brown, both of whom were fatally shot by police.

Sharpton and Crump are now drawing attention tothe death of 17-year-old Hunter Brittain, who was fatally shot during a traffic stop on June 23.

An officer wasrelieved of his dutiesearlier this monthafter failing to turn on his body camera during his alleged involvement in Brittains death.

Crump told The Washington Post in an interview that Brittains death will help muster greater interracial support amid a push to pass the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act in Congress because his blood is now on this legislation, just as Floyds and Breonna Taylors blood is.

The lawyer said the picture of an unarmed white teenager being fatally shot by police will start to change the narrative and perception of the problem of police violence as the country sees that children of all races and ethnicities can be victims.

It is closer to home now, for people who probably could not comprehend when it was happening to Black teenagers, he told the Post.

Crump, who has been called Black Americas attorney general by Sharpton, emphasized that his mission has always been to make sure that all our children can get home safely and not be killed by the police who are supposed to protect and defend them."

We have always said its about trying to make sure that all our children can get home safely and not be killed by the people who are supposed to protect and defend them Crump told the newspaper.

Before Brittains memorial service last week, Sharpton told reporters:Hunter did nothing wrong, just like we felt George Floyd did nothing wrong. But if we segregate how we react, then were wrong.

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Al Sharpton went on MSNBC on Thursday to gush over Joe Biden, praising the president for his speech on voting rights in Philadelphia the day before.

Sharpton went so far as to say that Bidens speech in which helikened recent GOP-led voting integrity laws to Jim Crow laws was monumental.

I think he made a monumental speech, Sharpton declared. For a president to stand there in the shadows of where they signed the Declaration of Independence and attack Jim Crow 21st century was something that I was not expecting.

And I also thought the fact that he did not, in any way, shape or form, duck the racial aspect of what were seeing in terms of the pushback by many states in coming with new restrictions, he said. That is where we are, but now what are we going to do about where we are?

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During this same appearance on Morning Joe, Sharpton doubled down on calling for a workaround for the filibuster to enact voting rights legislation.

And I think that what he has got to do is, in a firm way, figure out how to work around the filibuster, if they will not end the filibuster, he said.

The question, the dilemma that he has, and the White House has, is do they have the votes to end the filibuster if they came out and joined us, and I certainly want to see it ended, but you need the votes in the Senate to even end it. So, can you do a workaround like you do on economic or fiscal policies? he continued. And I think thats where he, being someone thats been in the Senate for so long, can use his personal relationships.

Sharpton had slammed the filibuster days before.

I certainly support, and have been saying this for some time, that we must have a way that we raise the issue of voting around the filibuster, Sharpton said. Filibuster should not stand in the way of democracy, should not stand in the way of our constitutional rights.

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I said to the president, along with my seven colleagues that lead national civil rights organizations, that he ought to take that position, he continued. I do not know what he will say today, but we certainly encourage him to speak forcefully.

If he talks history, if he talks about, weve been here before, and what we had to do to get past that, I think thats a good thing, Sharpton said. If he also deals with the fact that we need to have a workaround a filibuster, I think that will be a great thing. I intend to be there to hear what he has to say. Im glad hes speaking up, though.

This piece was written by James Samson on July 16, 2021. It originally appeared in LifeZette and is used by permission.

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