The ACLU-sponsored gathering includes Dr. Ron Daniels, convener of National African American Reparations Commission, Kamm Howard, a co-chairperson of NCOBRA, Danny Glover and more. 

The ACLU and the Leadership Conference Education Fund urge the Office of Personnel Management to remove job application questions that they say would negatively impact people with arrest records.

Those who spoke out were allegedly threatened with solitary confinement.

The court ruling expands the terms of a class action lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union last year.

Lawyers also asked a United States district court judge to reunite all separated minors with their parents.

They hope to prevent government officials from forcing asylum seekers to wait in Mexico until their cases can be heard in the United States.

Vanita Gupta, president and CEO of The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights: “This bipartisan bill offers some important improvements to the current federal system, but it falls short of providing the meaningful change that is required.”

President Donald Trump will nominate Barr to run the Department of Justice. His track record proves he will be bad for people of color.

Court sets deadline for government to provide information on parents of some 700 children who remain separated.  

Dozens of asylum-seekers held at a federal prison in Sheridan, Oregon, say authorities are denying them time and space to freely practice their faith.

A court filing by the civil rights group calls for temporary deportation stay for immigrant parents, as deadline looms to reunify families separated at border.

The measure would permit police officers to open fire only when there is no other alternative to prevent injury or death.

The temporary injunction also prevents the government from barring access to medical appointments.

Judge Evelyn Baker, who sentenced Black teenager Bobby Bostic back in 1997: “I deeply regret what I did.”

The three short films will examine mass incarceration and cash bail through the eyes of the formerly incarcerated.

ACLU: “We won’t let this distract us from the real issue here, which is that there are many more young women like Jane Doe out there who are still unable to get the care they need because of the Trump administration’s unconstitutional policies.”

“I made my decision, and that is between me and God. Through all of this, I have never changed my mind.”

“We must take actions at every level to end Missouri’s school-to-prison pipeline.”

The group is worried about law enforcement racial profiling.

“President Trump intends to build task forces to investigate and stop national trends that don’t exist.… He persists in ignoring the all-too-real deaths of Black and Brown people at the hands of law enforcement.”