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November 2, 2021
The Sentencing Project notes that Wisconsin is followed by Oklahoma, Idaho and Montana, all states with low Black populations.
October 29, 2021
Payments to compensate families separated at the southern U.S.-Mexico border are reportedly under consideration by the Biden administration.
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October 21, 2021
The ACLU of Hawaii is calling on local officials to make policy changes after a 10-year-old Black girl was arrested…
October 20, 2021
The suit was filed in federal court against the Oklahoma State Board of Education, its Regents for Higher Education and…
September 9, 2021
"Social media accounts" was added to LAPD officers' field interview cards, for both suspects and those not arrested, in 2015.
July 21, 2021
A police department in Prince George's County, is paying a group of Black and Latino officers $2.3 million to settle…
July 12, 2021
Bail for Hervis Rogers was set at $100,000 for two counts of illegal voting, which could mean a prison sentence…
June 3, 2021
Sen. Cory Booker leads the push to get Google and its parent company to probe how they or their products…
LASD Los Angeles Sheriff's deputies thegrio.com
May 5, 2021
A report claims that Los Angeles sheriff deputies have a history of harassing the families of people who they have…
April 14, 2021
Facial recognition systems misidentify Asian and Black people up to 100 times more than white men. It remains in use,…
March 9, 2021
They "very likely seek affiliation with military and law enforcement entities in furtherance of" their radical agendas, FBI officials say.
February 11, 2021
The ACLU's fight to protect the constitutional rights of all Americans embarks on a strategy to address the country's systemic…
migrant thegrio.com
October 21, 2020
The Trump administration's "zero-tolerance" policy separated thousands of children from their immigrating families until it was ended in 2018.
Florida baggy pants ban unconstitutional thegrio.com
September 15, 2020
After 13 years, a Florida city repeals the ban on men and women wearing sagging pants that reveal undergarments.
September 11, 2020
The ACLU, one of the groups that challenged Trump's memo, called the census ruling a 'huge victory for voting rights…
August 19, 2020
Fatal police shootings have not stopped or slowed down amid COVID-19 and social distancing mandates across the nation.
Kerry Washington thegrio.com
July 24, 2020
Check out theGrio's exclusive interview with Kerry Washinton as she dicusses her documentary, 'The Fight,' chronicling the ACLU's fight for…
Portland theGrio.com
July 23, 2020
The American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Oregon filed a lawsuit against the Department of Homeland Security and U.S. Marshals…
July 21, 2020
Federal officers’ actions at protests in Portland, hailed by Trump but done without local consent, are raising the prospect of…
Kerry Washington thegrio.com
July 10, 2020
Kerry Washington will release her electrifying documentary 'The Fight' focusing on four ACLU cases against the Trump Administration on July…