If COVID-19 Doesn’t Discriminate, Then Why Are Black People Dying at Higher Rates?

ReNika Moore, Director, ACLU's Racial Justice Program

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Customers in masks line up outside a grocery store in Brooklyn, NY, waiting to enter after other shoppers have left, because of social distancing efforts during the coronavirus outbreak.

“They Don’t Care if You Die”: Immigrants in ICE Detention Fear the Spread of COVID-19

Ashoka Mukpo, Staff Reporter, ACLU

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Two children wear masks and hold signs that read "I want my dad free and healthy" and "I want my dad alive not dead!!" as part of a protest calling for the release of detained immigrants in front of the GEO Detention Center in Aurora, Colorado.

Police are Enforcing Public Health Orders, but that Doesn’t Make them Public Health Experts

Carl Takei, Former Senior Staff Attorney, ACLU’s Trone Center for Justice and Equality

Two Seattle police officers wearing N95 masks.

Everyone Must be Counted in the 2020 Census

Ebony Miranda, Board Chair, Black Lives Matter Seattle-King County

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A demonstrator holding a sign with the text "It's in the Constitution: everyone counts" outside the Supreme Court.

The Added Importance of the Census, in Light of COVID-19

Steven K. Choi, Executive Director, New York Immigration Coalition

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Two envelopes containing 2020 U.S. Census forms.

The Transgender Community Needs More than Visibility

Aimee Stephens

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Aimee Stephens speaks with reporters outside the Supreme Court.

Executive Action Requested With Regard to COVID-19 and Oklahoma Prisons, Jails

ACLU of Oklahoma and partners submit a draft executive order addressing the most urgent next steps in addressing COVID-19 in our prisons and jails before it becomes a crisis that overwhelms not only custodial care providers but the Oklahoma medical system at large.

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Freedom Oklahoma and the ACLU of Oklahoma Urge State, Local Leadership to Take Further Steps to Protect Resident

Freedom Oklahoma and the ACLU of Oklahoma released recommendations that the Oklahoma City government, State officials, and policymakers across Oklahoma must consider to achieve a fair and effective response to COVID-19.

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COVID-19 Oklahoma City Municipal Judicial Order

Thank you to the Oklahoma City Municipal Judicial leadership for an urgent response to COVID-19 that centers the public health of everyone who is a part of the legal system, especially those currently detained. We hope this will serve as a model to other Oklahoma municipalities and jurisdictions during this pandemic.  

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