Angola prison is home to horrific constitutional violations that threaten the health and welfare of people incarcerated in the facility. In November 2012, Shannon Hurd, who was serving a life [...]
Almost a decade after his death sentence, the state agreed Lam Luong could not be executed and joined the defense in asking to change the sentence. This week, in one [...]
Activist Edward Blum has been trying to destroy race-conscious college admissions for a long time. In a federal lawsuit that went to trial this week, the organization Students for Fair [...]
The Trump administration released a report from federal privacy watchdog after the ACLU filed a Freedom of Information Act request. On Tuesday, in response to Freedom of Information Act requests, [...]
Defamation is hard to prove in the United States — and that’s a good thing for political debate. On Monday, a federal judge dismissed a lawsuit brought by Stephanie Clifford, [...]
Georgia’s signature-match laws deprive voters of due process. We’re suing. Early voting in Georgia for the 2018 general election just kicked off on Monday, but already the state has rejected [...]
A portrait of Robert E. Lee on display in a Virginia court where a Black man faces the death penalty reveals an abhorrent racial injustice. In Louisa County, Virginia, a [...]
#MeToo exposed the widespread silencing and dismissal of survivors and the need for our institutions to do better. Before there was Christine Blasey Ford, there was Recy Taylor, an African-American [...]
Tommie Smith and John Carlos staged a stunning protest at the ’68 Summer Olympics. Fifty years later, rampant racial discrimination remains. In 1968, rage over the United States’ treatment of [...]
Police reform legislation will go into effect this week in New York City, but the law depends on the NYPD acting in good faith. In December 2017, the New York [...]
