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The Andrew Goodman Foundation to Honor Five “Hidden Heroes” for Their Commitment to Protecting and Expanding Democracy in Their Communities
The 2019 Hidden Hero Awards will honor Jacqueline Beveridge, alumna of Georgetown University; Yark Beyan, alumna of Stony Brook University; Rebecca Diaz, alumna of Miami Dade College; Ava Mazzye, alumna of Bard College; and Zoe Williamson, alumna of Louisiana State University.
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Oxford Girl Scout Presents Her Mural Honoring Three Slain Civil Rights Workers of 1964 Freedom Summer
Cope, a rising senior at Talawanda High School, received a $1,000 grant from the E. W. Smith Family Charitable Trust to create the mural as a project for her Gold award from the Girl Scouts of America. The mural honors three civil rights volunteers who trained in Oxford during the Freedom Summer of 1964 and were murdered in Mississippi by members of the Ku Klux Klan a few weeks later as they tried to register voters there.
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Register to Vote at Suffolk County Community College
Suffolk County Community College's Center for Social Justice and Understanding partnered with The Andrew Goodman Foundation to walk students through the process of voter registration.
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Michigan’s voting rights initiative highlights a push to engage campuses
A briefing on how student-led lawsuits and policy initiatives are transforming campus civic engagement. - Education Dive
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The Andrew Goodman Foundation to Host Fifth Annual National Civic Leadership Training Summit at Montclair State University
This year is particularly meaningful because it marks the 55th anniversary of the brutal murder of our namesake, Andrew Goodman, who lost his life, as a 20-year-old college student, in service of advancing equality and voting rights. In honor of this anniversary, the 2019 Summit will focus on empowering student participants by providing them with the tools to leverage Andrew Goodman’s legacy to promote long-term voting engagement on their campuses.
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NJ Non-Profit to Host National Civic Leadership Summit for College Students at MSU
The annual Summit brings together student leaders from across the country who are part of the organization’s Vote Everywhere and Puffin Democracy Fellows programs. It provides them with training, strategies, and tools needed to advance youth leadership, civic engagement, and voter participation on their college campuses. -InsiderNJ
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How a large-scale effort to register black voters led to a crackdown in Tennessee
The Andrew Goodman Foundation's Managing Director Maxim Thorne weighs in on Tennessee's new voter suppression law in an article for the Washington Post.
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The Consequences of Gerrymandering on the Student Vote
As the Supreme Court of the United States prepares to rule on its constitutionality, The AGF's David Rudenstine Postgraduate Public Service Legal Fellow breaks down gerrymandering and its impact on student voting.
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The Andrew Goodman Foundation Takes Further Legal Action Against Tennessee for Its Voter Suppression Law
The Andrew Goodman Foundation and other voting rights organizations took further legal action against Tennessee's new restrictive voting law by filing a "Notice of Noncompliance."
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Voting Advocates Sue Tennessee Over Tougher New Law
The Andrew Goodman Foundation's Managing Director Maxim Thorne discusses the Foundation's reason behind joining a lawsuit against Tennessee's restrictive new voting law with Diverse Issues Inside Higher Education.
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