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Twenty-Four Years of Love

Twenty-Four Years of Love

05/12/2014 – We're like a lot of couples out there. We met in college. We've stuck by each other's side through the ups and downs. And we're involved in our local North Carolina community. The only ...

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Private Prisons Eat Our Humanity

Private Prisons Eat Our Humanity

05/12/2014 – Somebody figured out, once again, how to build a machine that can quantify the life of an African-American man and make money off him. They figured out how to use the value of his body ...

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Transgender Military Ban Takes Center Stage

Transgender Military Ban Takes Center Stage

05/12/2014 – In an interview with Martha Raddatz on ABC's This Week on Sunday, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said that he believes current military regulations that prohibit transgender individuals ...

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NSA Reform Takes Its First Steps

NSA Reform Takes Its First Steps

05/09/2014 – Congress finally had enough.

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Mary Frances Berry: 60 Years After Brown, "The students didn't fail us; we failed the students."

Mary Frances Berry: 60 Years After Brown, "The students didn't fail us; we failed the students."

05/09/2014 – Within a minute or two of speaking with Mary Frances Berry, you first hear the crackle of enthusiasm and then you notice the matter-of-fact way she can describe something awful, like ...

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ACLU Features ››

Brown v. Board of Education
Brown v. Board of Education

The changes in educational opportunities in the 60 years since Brown v. Board of Education was decided ...

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Border Communities Under Siege
Border Communities Under Siege

The U.S.-Mexico border has been turned into a militarized zone, all in the name of "border security."

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Time to Rein in the Surveillance State
Time to Rein in the Surveillance State

The government is using provisions of the Patriot Act and the FISA Amendments Act to regularly track ...

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A Living Death
A Living Death

For 3,278 people, it was nonviolent offenses like stealing a $159 jacket or serving as a middleman in ...

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