Civil Rights & Social Justice

Dream Defenders’ upcoming Class Ruins Everything Around Me campaign is naming names and building the power to radically create a more just and equitable world.

The Supreme Court will give voting rights opponents a second chance to undermine Black political power in 'Louisiana v. Callais.' 

Senate Bill 12 bans DEI programs in Texas public schools, as well as after-school clubs centered around sexuality, such as the Gay-Straight Alliance. 

The Republican attack on Black political participation pre-dates Trump and requires our full attention and collective effort.

Under the new law, Illinois law enforcement agencies must review and share an officer’s full job history, including any misconduct, when they apply for a new role.

After sunset, Black people had to be out of these hostile sundown towns. It was a matter of life and death in some instances.

Xavier Davis is suing Jefferson Lines after a white bus driver made Black men sit in the back of the bus headed to Minnesota.

This year’s Juneteenth celebrations take place against the backdrop of a federal government covered in fascism and hostile toward these core tenets of a free society. 

So, what do we do? We organize.  We show up at ICE protests so the system doesn’t get to isolate people in silence. 

America has made significant progress since the era of segregation, but the Trump administration may be putting that progress at risk.

Consent decrees, which have often been used to spur police reform in cities where misconduct, bias, and poor policing are endemic, are under attack from the Trump Administration.

Michael Brown’s family deserves justice, and the Black community deserves better from a justice system that works as a protector to some communities and a predator to others.