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Actor Jussie Smollett did not deserve the mistreatment he said he experienced in Chicago in January, nor should anyone face mortal threat for living on their own terms.

These ordinances make it illegal for the homeless to do what is necessary to survive and are unconstitutional.

This week, amid a partial government shutdown, senators tried to sneak through a bill that would encourage states to suppress constitutionally protected political boycotts of Israel.

If the Department of Labor issues a final rule that encourages states to drug test the unemployed, states should know better. We successfully challenged Florida’s mandatory drug testing for those seeking Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF).

Politicians and high-profile gun groups like the NRA routinely rally to support gun owners and the Second Amendment. But does this include all gun owners? The silence is deafening when it comes to people of color and their gun rights.

Voters chose to expand voting rights in several states during the 2018 midterm elections. Many lawmakers in those states, including here in Florida, are now working to curtail the wishes of voters.

Peter Sean Brown is a U.S. citizen who lives in the Florida Keys. He was born in Philadelphia and has lived in Florida for 10 years. Before this year, he had never heard of Immigrations and Customs Enforcement, or ICE.

Six-year-olds never seem to run out of questions, and my son is no exception. But in August, CJ asked me a question that was harder than the rest: He wanted to know if there was something wrong with his hair.

Florida voters passed Amendment 4, a constitutional amendment that restores the voting rights to most people convicted of felonies after they complete the full terms of their sentences. It is the single biggest expansion of voting rights since the passage of the 26th Amendment in 1971.