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The Family Regulation System: Why Those Committed to Racial Justice Must Interrogate It

by Ava Cilia | Feb 17, 2021 | Amicus, Criminal Justice, Education & Youth, Policing and Law Enforcement, Poverty and Economic Justice, Racial Justice

Photo credit: The Imprint This past summer, the broadest protests in U.S. history erupted in response to the murders of Black people, like Tony McDade, George Floyd, and Breonna Taylor, at the hands of law enforcement. Calls to defund the police and reinvest those...

COVID-19 Brings School Funding Inequities and Litigation Front and Center

by Katharine Bohrs | Nov 5, 2020 | Amicus, Education & Youth

Last week, in a letter to Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi outlined priorities for negotiating COVID-related stimulus and programmatic plans. On her short list: funding for public K-12 schools. In the 2008 Recession, schools were hit...

Ending the 2020 Census Early is an Act of Violence Against Native Americans

by Annamarie Forestiere | Oct 21, 2020 | Amicus, Congress, Criminal Justice, Education & Youth, Executive Branch, Human Rights, Labor and Employment, Poverty and Economic Justice, Racial Justice

Photo by Enayet Raheem on Unsplash The Early Termination of the 2020 Census The Trump Administration has been pushing to end the 2020 Census early for months now. The Administration’s purported justification for its initial goal of a September 30th end date was that...

U.S. Department of Education Sends Mixed Messages on Bostock’s Application to Transgender Students Under Title IX

by Katharine Bohrs | Oct 16, 2020 | Amicus, Courts & Judicial Interpretation, Education & Youth, LGBTQ Rights, Sex Equality

In June of this year in its Bostock v. Clayton County decision, the Supreme Court held for the first time that Title VII’s prohibition on sex discrimination in employment also prohibits discrimination against an individual based on their sexual orientation or...

School Policing was Designed to Criminalize Black Students. We Must Follow Black Voices Calling for its Abolition.

by Patrick Cremin | Jul 8, 2020 | Amicus, Education & Youth, Policing and Law Enforcement, Racial Justice

Photo by Shopify Partners from Burst Amid mass mobilization to combat anti-Black racism, Black-led efforts to abolish police are gaining wider traction. These efforts require a radical reimagining of our institutions, including those that children interact with most...

Welcome to This Week in Civil Rights and Civil Liberties

by jacobcarrel | Apr 13, 2020 | Amicus, Criminal Justice, Education & Youth, Labor and Employment, Voting and Elections Rights, Weekly News Roundup

Welcome to This Week in Civil Rights and Civil Liberties. This week, the COVID-19 outbreak continued to disproportionately affect some groups of Americans more than others, jails continued to be a hotspot for COVID-19, Wisconsin Republican legislators forced an unsafe...