Two signs are held up during the May Day March In Manhattan, New York on May 1, 2025. The largest of the signs is in the foreground and reads"We Are a Nation of Immigrants," while the smaller in the background reads, " WE ARE ALL (EXCEPT NATIVE...

Help Wanted: Oklahoma’s Immigration Crisis and the Urgent Need For Habeas Counsel

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NextGen Meeting: Find your voice. Create change.

The goal of this program is to provide students with a place to meet other young advocates, connect with community leaders, and learn new skills and information that will allow them to be better advocates in their schools and communities.

The purpose of this first meeting is for students to get to know each other and meet community organizing leaders in OKC. Students will also have a chance to brainstorm ideas on how to approach pressing issues in their communities.

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The ‘ICE Kids’

For years, ICE has been holding teenagers in indefinite detention thousands of miles away from their families. And it won’t tell anyone why.

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Patient Privacy Is Not Just About Medical Ethics — It’s Vital to Racial Equity and Disability Rights

We should empower patients to seek care by maintaining the strongest possible medical confidentiality rules instead of watering down critical patient privacy protections.

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Canceling Student Debt Can Help Build Black Women’s Futures

We don’t need more shallow praise for “saving” the nation — we need Biden to cancel our student debt.

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Mass ICE Detention is Unnecessary — and We Have Proof

Immigration detention was cruel, abusive, and degrading before the pandemic hit — but as in so many other places, COVID-19 made the system's brutality impossible to ignore.

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Resilience, Liberation, and the Interconnectedness of Pride

If Marsha and Sylvia taught us anything, it’s that if Pride doesn’t include all of us, it doesn’t hold meaning for any of us.

On June 8, 2019, over 70 groups participated in the 23rd Brooklyn Pride Parade. A few thousand onlookers gathered along the parade route on 5th Avenue from Lincoln Place to 9th Street in Park Slope, Brooklyn

Supreme Court Ruling is a Win for Investigative Journalists and Civil Rights Researchers

This ruling is critically important to hold powerful online platforms accountable against discrimination.

The Supreme Court Building in Washington, D.C..

Defending Speech We Hate

The record demonstrates the ACLU’s unwavering commitment to First Amendment rights for all.

A sign reading FREE SPEECH is held aloft by person protesting immigration laws banning some Muslims at Battery Park in Manhattan in 2017 in New York City

How the Police Lobby Impedes Public Safety

To create and foster the genuine public safety BIPOC communities are demanding, we must address the lobbying power of police.

Three police officers in uniform, with "Police" written on the back of their vests.

A New Consensus Around Transparency and National Security Surveillance

Among the intelligence community elite, there seems to be a new recognition that excessive secrecy can be costly — and not just to democracy but to national security.

Outside of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) located in Washington, DC