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Systemic Equality plan also definitively targets America’s history of racism and oppression by way of working to strike down discriminatory laws that present barriers to the people they harm most. Coupled with advocacy efforts on the local level, Systemic Equality will also aim its efforts in dousing the still-warm embers of Jim Crow across the South with a focused core of strategists and long-term planning.
Launched this past Tuesday (Feb. 9), the ACLU has challenged the White House to sign an executive order that will empower the U.S. Justice Department to examine and monitor voting rights violations in every U.S. attorney office across the land. As evidenced by the last major election cycle, participation in the civic process was hindered by a number of unlawful restrictions at the state and local level.
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The ACLU of Massachusetts has been reimagining community safety in Massachusetts for decades through its campaigns to work for criminal law reforms to end our reliance on incarceration, eliminate racial disparities in the system, and reinvest in public health and human needs.
Rahsaan Hall, Director of the Racial Justice Program for the ACLU of Massachusetts, has been a major part of their work. Please join us as we discuss their efforts to make the criminal legal system more fair and just for all of Massachusetts.
Rahsaan Hall is the Director of the Racial Justice Program for the American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts. In this role Rahsaan helps develop the ACLU of Massachusetts’ integrated advocacy approach to address racial justice issues. Through legislative advocacy, litigation and community engagement, the program works on issues that deeply impact communities of color and historically disenfranchised communi
Reflections on Massachusetts historic police reform law
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The police reform bill started out simply enough: A bicameral effort to limit the use of force by police officers, limit or eliminate no-knock warrants and to make policing more equitable
It wound up an overarching bill encompassing training, use of force, oversight and much more. It s ultimate aim, according to key negotiator Sen. Cynthia Creem, D-Newton, is to address ingrained, systemic racial bias. Institutional racism has been around forever, she said. It s so ingrained for so many people, it s almost subconscious.
As a lead negotiator on Beacon Hill, Watertown Sen. William Brownsberger played an integral role in securing passage of the law in late December 2020.
ACLU, for first time in its 101-year history, elects an African American as its president By: CNN
By Leah Asmelash, CNN (CNN) Deborah Archer, a clinical law professor at New York University, has been elected as the new president of the American Civil Liberties Union the first Black person to hold the position.
The ACLU made the announcement Monday, calling Archer an established civil rights attorney, scholar, and teacher.
In addition to her professorship, Archer is the co-faculty director at NYU s Center on Race, Inequality, and the Law, and the director of the Civil Rights Clinic at NYU School of Law.
President Biden signed an executive order shortly after his inauguration on Wednesday that rescinded the Trump administration's controversial 1776 Commission.The order rescinding the commission comes just days after the Trump administration generated widespread backlash following its commission's release of the 1776 Report, which was written response to The New York Times's 1619 Project.The report, which was released on Martin Luther King Jr..