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Crossing the Bridge Together: The Fight for Voting Rights Marches On
Ensuring access to the ballot for Black voters is a community-led, daily pursuit.
The Most Racist Supreme Court Cases You’ve Probably Never Heard Of
Why does the Biden administration's Department of Justice continue to rely on cases that presume people in the territories are “alien races” composing “savage tribes”?
ACLU of Alabama Statement on the Atlanta Shooting
Last week, eight people were murdered, six of whom were Asian women. We grieve for the victims, their families and communities, and to all who are impacted by this horrific attack, especially Georgia’s Asian American community and our own.
Breaking Down Systemic Racism Through Collective Action in the South
As part of our Systemic Equality campaign, over the next two years the ACLU will be investing directly in Southern states and our Southern affiliates to further our commitment to racial justice work.
By JaTaune Bosby Gilchrist
Beyond Pride: Black Trans Lives Matter
Since 1970, the LGBTQ community and our allies have marked June as LGBTQ Pride Month, in honor of the uprising at the Stonewall Inn in 1969. 51 years after Stonewall, a protest that was begun by Black and Brown transgender women like Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera, the community returned to its roots for this Pride month. LGBTQ people across this nation have risked their own personal health to take to the streets in support of the Black Lives Matter movement. We have joined with individuals of all backgrounds to demand an end to systemic racism, white supremacy, and police brutality.
By Carmarion D. Anderson, Alabama State Director, Human Rights Campaign (HRC)'s Project One America
Alabama Law Enforcement, Like All Government, Must Be Open and Accountable to the People
After the tragic death of E.J. Bradford, Jr., the ACLU of Alabama sought ways to help our community process its grief for E.J. and channel legitimate concerns that government officials might not learn from the tragedy.
By Kira Fonteneau, ACLU of Alabama Board President
What Does Alabama’s Attorney General Have to Hide in the Police Killing of EJ Bradford?
A family is still grieving after local police killed their son on Thanksgiving night after a gunman opened fire at a mall. But several months after the incident, the Alabama attorney general is still keeping the Bradfords, and the region’s Black community, in the dark about critical details.
By Dillon Nettles, Carl Takei
We Need to Address Police Brutality in Alabama
E.J. Bradford. Chikesia Clemons. Ulysses Wilkerson. Sureshbhai Patel. Greg Gunn. These are only a few of the names of those who have been in headlines after being brutalized or killed at the hands of law enforcement in the state of Alabama in recent years.
By Dillon Nettles
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