The Legacy of Derrick Bell
The following is an excerpt from a longer article appearing on ACSblog: Professor Derrick Bell, who passed away on Wednesday, was a racial justice pioneer and teacher who enlightened many. His actions spoke as loudly as his words and influence the w...
Categories: Derrick Bell, discrimination, racism, segregation Tags:
Ohio Mother Granted Clemency after Being Prosecuted for Sending Her Child to the Wrong School
In January, we wrote about the particularly disturbing case of Kelley Williams-Bolar, an African-American single mother convicted of two felonies and facing prison time because she used her father's address on a school enrollment form so that her da...
Categories: access to education, discrimination, racial justice Tags:
Ohio Mother Granted Clemency after Being Prosecuted for Sending Her Child to the Wrong School
In January, we wrote about the particularly disturbing case of Kelley Williams-Bolar, an African-American single mother convicted of two felonies and facing prison time because she used her father's address on a school enrollment form so that her da...
Categories: access to education, discrimination, racial justice Tags:
The Courage to Be Safe and Free
Once the shock subsided, we set out to determine what new powers the government would seek in response to the 9/11 terrorist attacks. The smoke billowing from the Pentagon was visible over Washington as I met with several ACLU colleagues from aroun...
Categories: 9-11 blog series, discrimination, LAPD, muslim, NYPD, racial justice, racial mapping, racial profiling, terrorism Tags:
Tenth Anniversary of Worldwide War; A Time to Reassess Who We Are
While the country focuses on the upcoming tenth anniversary of 9/11, there is another tenth anniversary that is coming up next week that triggered sweeping changes around the world. Just a few days after 9/11, Congress passed the Authorization for U...
Categories: 9-11 blog series, AUMF, detention, discrimination, guantanamo, muslim, racial profiling, spying, surveillance, terrorism, Torture, warrantless wiretapping Tags:
The Legacy of 9/11: Endless War Without Oversight
Almost ten years after 9/11, in May of this year, a majority of the US House of Representatives voted to give President Obama — and all future presidents — more war authority than Congress gave to President Bush two days after the 9/11 atta...
Categories: 9-11 blog series, detention, discrimination, guantanamo, muslim, racial profiling, spying, surveillance, terrorism, Torture, warrantless wiretapping Tags:
Prosecutors Delay Historic Racial Justice Act Hearing
More than two years after the North Carolina Legislature enacted an historic law barring race discrimination in death penalty cases, Marcus Robinson and his lawyers were in Cumberland County Superior Court earlier this week to argue his claim under ...
Categories: capital punishment, death penalty, discrimination, racial justice Tags:
Ten Years Later
On September 4, 2001, my first official day on the job at the ACLU, our agenda was already full as we embarked on a new decade of defending civil liberties. Just one week later, our nation’s future—and the ACLU’s — was fundam...
Categories: 9/11 blog series, detention, discrimination, guantanamo, muslim, racial profiling, spying, surveillance, terrorism, Torture, warrantless wiretapping Tags:
Ten Years Later
On September 4, 2001, my first official day on the job at the ACLU, our agenda was already full as we embarked on a new decade of defending civil liberties. Just one week later, our nation’s future—and the ACLU’s — was fundam...
Categories: 9/11 blog series, detention, discrimination, guantanamo, muslim, racial profiling, spying, surveillance, terrorism, Torture, warrantless wiretapping Tags:
President Obama: Restore Civil Rights Protections!
Seventy years ago this week, President Franklin D. Roosevelt ordered all federal agencies to "include in all defense contracts hereafter negotiated by them a provision obligating the contractor not to discriminate against any worker because of ...
Categories: discrimination, employment, government contracts, hiring, Religion Tags: