Press Releases
about Racial Justice
Oct 29, 2019
Nov. 2: National African American Reparations Commission and ACLU to Host Forum on Reparations
Leading Civil Liberties Groups Reaffirm Support for H.R. 40 and Put Weight Behind Series of Forums, Starting in South Carolina
Issue Areas:
Racial Justice
Oct 22, 2019
ACLU Statement on President Trump and Senator Lindsey Graham’s Lynching Comments
NEW YORK — President Donald Trump and Senator Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) today compared the ongoing presidential impeachment inquiry to “a lynching.” Jeffery Robinson, director ...
Issue Areas:
Racial Justice
Oct 01, 2019
ACLU Statement on Groundbreaking Harvard Admissions Case
BOSTON — Following today’s decision in a challenge to Harvard’s practices on admissions, ReNika Moore, Director of the American Civil Liberties Union’s Racial J...
Issue Areas:
Racial Justice
Jun 17, 2019
National African American Reparations Commission, ACLU to Host Forum on Reparations
Forum to Follow Congressional Hearing on Bill to Form a Commission to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals
Issue Areas:
Racial Justice
Jun 04, 2019
ACLU Sues to Challenge Discriminatory Housing Policy at Virginia Apartment Complex
CHESTERFIELD, Va. — The American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU of Virginia, along with Relman, Dane & Colfax, PLLC, a Washington, D.C.-based civil rights law firm, filed...
Issue Areas:
Racial Justice
Mar 21, 2019
ACLU and Center for Media Justice Sue FBI for Records on Surveillance of Black Activists
NEW YORK — The American Civil Liberties Union and Center for Media Justice today sued the FBI and Department of Justice for records related to the surveillance of Black people an...
Issue Areas:
Racial Justice
Privacy & Technology
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