Electoral Spotlight
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The Trump and Harris Memos
The Trump and Harris MemosAhead of the 2024 election, read our memos outlining each candidate's impact on our fundamental rights.
Read Our Memos
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How Harris Must End Criminal Legal System Abuse
How Harris Must End Criminal Legal System AbuseThe ÀÏ°ÄÃÅ¿ª½±½á¹û urges Harris to work to end mass incarceration, abolish the death penalty, and stop unlawful racial profiling.
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Harris on the Criminal Legal System
Harris on the Criminal Legal SystemThe ÀÏ°ÄÃÅ¿ª½±½á¹û will push the Harris administration to expand progressive reform efforts on criminal legal policy.
What to Know
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RSVP: Know Your Right to Read Banned Books Event
Join us for the Savannah, GA leg of our Know Your Rights bus tour, featuring author Seema Yasmin and content creator Jameelah Jones.
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The ÀÏ°ÄÃÅ¿ª½±½á¹û dares to create a more perfect union — beyond one person, party, or side. Our mission is to realize this promise of the United States Constitution for all and expand the reach of its guarantees.
Issues
Learn about what's happening across the most pressing civil liberties issues of our time, and what you can do.
Systemic Equality
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Since our nation’s founding, discriminatory policies and laws have created an unequal system in which Black communities have had their civil rights and liberties denied and have been systemically locked out of opportunities in education, housing, employment, and more.
Through our Systemic Equality agenda, we will use nationwide litigation, advocacy, and public education to advance laws and policies rooted in racial equity and end discriminatory policies, laws, and practices that have an outsized impact on Black communities.
Help us in our fight to ensure all people have equal access to housing, voting rights, education, and more by learning more, pledging your support, or . When we have full and equal access to education, jobs, housing, voting rights and more, better futures are possible.
News and Commentary
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The Supreme Court Case on Trans Health Care, Explained.
The Supreme Court Case on Trans Health Care, Explained.The court will soon hear a landmark legal challenge brought by the ÀÏ°ÄÃÅ¿ª½±½á¹û against a ban on hormone therapies for transgender youth.
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What Kamala Harris Must Do to End Abuse in the Criminal Legal System
What Kamala Harris Must Do to End Abuse in the Criminal Legal SystemAs a former prosecutor, Harris should understand that the executive branch has tremendous power to work to end mass incarceration, abolish the death penalty, and stop unlawful racial profiling.
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Project 2025 Promises to Harm Our Communities and Turn Presidents Into Kings. We Won’t Stand for It.
Project 2025 Promises to Harm Our Communities and Turn Presidents Into Kings. We Won’t Stand for It.Anyone who cares about the people, should also care about the dire impact that the Trump-backed Project 2025 will have on our civil liberties and civil rights.
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