Wade Henderson is past president of The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights. He is a native Washingtonian and currently resides in Washington, D.C.
Wade Henderson argues that the denial of congressional representation to more than 700,000 Washington D.C. residents is a national civil rights issue, not a local one, and calls on Congress to pass D.C. statehood as part of the unfinished work of American democracy.
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