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Project 2025 Promises to Harm Our Communities and Turn Presidents Into Kings. We Won’t Stand for It.
Anyone who cares about the people, should also care about the dire impact that the Trump-backed Project 2025 will have on our civil liberties and civil rights.
By Mike Zamore
Project 2025 Promises to Harm Our Communities and Turn Presidents Into Kings. We Won’t Stand for It.Podcast
At Liberty Live with W. Kamau Bell: Know Your Rights Bus Tour Philly
You may recognize W. Kamau Bell from his multi-Emmy award-winning docuseries United Shades of America, from his Substack Who’s With Me, or from his commercials for the ACLU. Bell has worked with...
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Since the start of COVID-19, we’ve filed more than 100 legal actions. Visit our tracker to learn more.
The Drag Queens Helping You Vote
On tour with the ACLU’s Know Your Rights bus tour, drag queens and other artists from Philadelphia and Detroit helped audiences test their knowledge of democracy.
By Hanna Stolzer
The Drag Queens Helping You VoteKnow Your Rights Game Show: Home Edition!
How well do you know your rights? Test your knowledge when you play the online version of our Bus Tour’s Know Your Rights Game Show quiz.
By ACLU
Know Your Rights Game Show: Home Edition!The Supreme Court Case on Trans Health Care, Explained.
The court will soon hear a landmark legal challenge brought by the ACLU against a ban on hormone therapies for transgender youth.
By Gillian Branstetter
The Supreme Court Case on Trans Health Care, Explained.Podcast
At Liberty Live with W. Kamau Bell: Know Your Rights Bus Tour Philly
You may recognize W. Kamau Bell from his multi-Emmy award-winning docuseries United Shades of America, from his Substack Who’s With Me, or from his commercials for the ACLU. Bell has worked with...
Latest on COVID-19
Since the start of COVID-19, we’ve filed more than 100 legal actions. Visit our tracker to learn more.
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All the President's Subpoenas
President Trump’s financial records and tax returns have been a recurring focal point since his election. Both the Manhattan District Attorney and various House Committees are asking to see these records in order to conduct their investigations into potentially unlawful behavior. But the...
President Trump’s financial records and tax returns have been a recurring focal point since his election. Both the Manhattan District Attorney and various House Committees are asking to see these records in order to conduct their investigations into potentially unlawful behavior. But the...
Body Cameras and the George Floyd Protests
If reform advocates want police in their communities to wear body cameras, they should demand strong policies and institutional practices to make...
By Jay Stanley
If reform advocates want police in their communities to wear body cameras, they should demand strong policies and institutional practices to make...
By Jay Stanley
Protests, Aerial Surveillance, and Police Defunding
Given the role that aerial surveillance has played in the George Floyd and other protests, communities should take a hard look at the benefits and...
By Jay Stanley
Given the role that aerial surveillance has played in the George Floyd and other protests, communities should take a hard look at the benefits and...
By Jay Stanley
Wrongfully Arrested Because Face Recognition Can’t Tell Black People Apart
It is now more urgent than ever for our lawmakers to stop law enforcement use of face recognition technology.
By Victoria Burton-Harris, Philip Mayor
It is now more urgent than ever for our lawmakers to stop law enforcement use of face recognition technology.
By Victoria Burton-Harris, Philip Mayor
The Untold Number of People Implicated in Crimes They Didn’t Commit Because of Face Recognition
The sheer scope of police face recognition use in this country means that people have almost certainly been — and will continue to be —...
By Clare Garvie
The sheer scope of police face recognition use in this country means that people have almost certainly been — and will continue to be —...
By Clare Garvie
COVID-19 Deaths in Nursing Homes are Not Unavoidable — They are the Result of Deadly Discrimination
We as a society must reckon with our relentless marginalization and de-prioritization of people with disabilities and the people who support them.
By Susan Mizner
We as a society must reckon with our relentless marginalization and de-prioritization of people with disabilities and the people who support them.
By Susan Mizner
"All Hell Broke Loose."
Four protesters and a journalist from across the country share their stories of being targeted with “less-lethal” weapons by police during the...
By Ashoka Mukpo
Four protesters and a journalist from across the country share their stories of being targeted with “less-lethal” weapons by police during the...
By Ashoka Mukpo
'Black Lives Matter' is About More than the Police
Black life must be valued at every stage and in every facet of society. We won't rest until it is.
By Patrisse Cullors
Black life must be valued at every stage and in every facet of society. We won't rest until it is.
By Patrisse Cullors
Black Communities Cannot Wait Any Longer. The Time to Divest Is Now.
For years, Black activists and organizations like the Movement for Black Lives have been calling for the reckoning we now see in the streets, and...
By Gillian Ganesan
For years, Black activists and organizations like the Movement for Black Lives have been calling for the reckoning we now see in the streets, and...
By Gillian Ganesan
A Trans Organizer on the Movement to Decriminalize Sex Work
Public opinion and the law of the land aligned this week to affirm trans equality in America: Thousands of people took to the streets of New York City over the weekend to remind their community and the nation: Black trans lives matter. Then on Monday, the Supreme Court handed down a landmark...
Public opinion and the law of the land aligned this week to affirm trans equality in America: Thousands of people took to the streets of New York City over the weekend to remind their community and the nation: Black trans lives matter. Then on Monday, the Supreme Court handed down a landmark...