2018 is fast approaching, and we’re looking back on some of our most important reports from 2017.
2018 is fast approaching, and we’re looking back on some of our most important reports from 2017.
It’s a great day for Alabama.
On each anniversary of Bloody Sunday, people from across the country and the world make a pilgrimage to Selma, Alabama, to listen to civil rights luminaries, walk across the Edmund Pettus Bridge, and recommit themselves to the fight for equal justice.
We commend the members of the Florida Senate Criminal Justice Committee for their passage of four bills today that could finally put this state on the path toward meaningful criminal justice reform.
Three and a half years before Rosa Parks sat down, Pfc. Sarah Keys refused to get up.
°Ä²Ê¿ª½± President Richard Cohen testified today before the U.S. House Committee on Homeland Security about the need to focus on domestic terrorism from the radical right.
As we feared, the FBI’s for 2016 shows a second straight year of increases – the first time that’s happened in a decade. It means that in the last two years, the number of reported hate crimes has risen by nearly 12 percent.
is bad policy that would violate the Constitution, waste taxpayer money, make our communities less safe, and expose local law enforcement to costly civil rights lawsuits.
A diverse coalition of groups that oppose the law enforcement practice of seizing property from citizens without first obtaining a criminal conviction held an educational forum today, arguing that the Alabama State Legislature should outlaw the practice.
In the aftermath of the deadly white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, and an outbreak of bias incidents across the country, the °Ä²Ê¿ª½± has published a guide to help college students and others safely and effectively take action when they witness acts of public intimidation and hate crime.
Now, more than ever, we must work together to protect the values that ensure a fair and inclusive future for all.