Publication
Feb 22, 2019
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  • Free Speech and Expression

Know Your Rights: The Pledge of Allegiance and the National Anthem

Commemorating the anniversary of a landmark case for free speech and expression in schools.
Publication
Feb 22, 2019
Yellow background and faded black gavel under text "Thousands of drug charges dismissed."

Thousands of people were wrongfully convicted. We’re letting them know.

We are spreading the word that wrongfully convicted people have a path to justice—and an opportunity to more easily rebuild their lives.
Publication
Feb 15, 2019
Trump Declaring National Emergency
  • Immigrants' Rights

There is no ‘national emergency’ at the border, and Trump’s declaration is illegal

President Donald Trump admits he’s making his move because he didn’t get his way with Congress, and in the process, he hurts American communities.
Publication
Feb 14, 2019
Lucimar de Souza and her son
  • Immigrants' Rights

Love, freedom

In the nearly 100 years of our existence, the ACLU has always fought for the right to live and love freely.
Publication
Jan 30, 2019
Oumou Kanoute
  • Racial Justice

Smith College overhauls policing practices after Black student racially profiled

After a Smith College employee called the cops on a Black student as she ate lunch, Smith will take up the ACLU’s recommendations for police reforms.
Publication
Jan 25, 2019
Person's eye with bars around it to represent face surveillance
  • Privacy and Surveillance

Amazon, Google, and Microsoft are at odds on the dangers of face recognition. One of them is on the right path.

There’s a clear rift among the tech giants over how to protect Americans from unchecked face surveillance.
Publication
Jan 23, 2019
1964 photo of Martin Luther King Jr. leaning on a lectern
  • Racial Justice|
  • +1 Issue

Martin Luther King Jr. offers a lesson on why we should be worried about Amazon and the FBI

Imagine if the FBI’s surveillance of the civil rights leader had used today’s technology.
Publication
Jan 22, 2019
Protester holding "I Love Repro Rights" sign
  • Reproductive Freedom

46 years after Roe v. Wade, the future of reproductive freedom is still undecided.

On its 46th anniversary, Roe v. Wade is in danger like never before.
Publication
Jan 11, 2019
Protestor stands with "stop the shutdown" sign
  • Free Speech and Expression

What are federal employees’ rights to protest the government shutdown?

People don’t lose their First Amendment rights if they work for the government.