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Sep 10, 2020

The Trump Administration’s Attack on Abortion Access Disproportionately Harms Communities of Color Already Devastated by COVID-19

Even before the pandemic, people of color faced severe barriers to accessing essential reproductive health care as a result of interrelated factors such as structural racism, gendered oppression, and...

Sep 9, 2020

ACLU Calls On Tech Companies to End Their Alliance with ICE and CBP

Though they claim to “advance human welfare” and help their customers “move society forward” by providing the necessary knowledge, information, and analytical tools for researchers, lawyers, and government...

Sep 3, 2020

For Black Immigrants, Police and ICE Are Two Sides of the Same Coin

For Black immigrants, life in the U.S. often means being encircled by the same systems of criminalization, profiling, and over-policing as Black Americans.

A close up of a police officer wears a "Police" label beside a U.S. ICE (standing for Immigration and Customs Enforcement) badge on his vest.

Sep 3, 2020

My Brother’s Not Afraid of Much. With COVID-19 in Prison, He’s Scared Out of His Mind.

New Jersey has a shameful distinction when it comes to COVID-19: Despite success in containing the virus in other ways, the death rates in our prisons are the worst in the country.

Sep 3, 2020

Why Evicting Millions During a Pandemic is Bad For Our Democracy

As the COVID-19 pandemic stretches on, people across the country face the economic devastation left in its wake. Along with staggering unemployment numbers, millions of renters now...

Protesters demonstrating with signs calling for rent relief and an end to evictions.

Aug 27, 2020

4 Quotes from Gavin Grimm’s Latest Victory

The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals yesterday ruled in favor of American Civil Liberties Union client Gavin Grimm, deciding that restroom policies segregating transgender students from their peers and...