The Trump Administration is Banning Talk about Race and Gender

The administration is barring federal agencies and contractors from providing employees with critical training on race and sex discrimination.

President Donald Trump speaks about podium with presidential seal during an event in the Rose Garden of the White House.

Safe at Home: Fighting Against Sexual Harassment in Housing

Landlords lag far behind employers, schools, and other institutions in addressing sexual harassment.

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We Are Not Okay

The following was adapted from a message to ACLU staff from Chief Equity and Inclusion Officer Amber Hikes.

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Punished for Reporting Sexual Harassment: How One Law School Almost Got a Student Survivor Banned From the Bar

Policies and practices like GW’s serve a retaliatory function that flies in the face of the purpose of Title IX — a law meant to ensure students’ equal access to education, regardless of their sex.

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Immigration Detention and Coerced Sterilization: History Tragically Repeats Itself

The ICE detention story reflects a long pattern in the United States of the coerced sterilization of marginalized populations, particularly of Black, Latinx, and Indigenous peoples.

A migrant detainee stands facing away from bunks.

True Justice for Breonna Taylor Won’t Come From Criminal Charges Alone

People are rightfully losing faith in the law’s ability to deliver justice. Here’s what prosecutors could do to fix that.

People gather in Jefferson Square in Louisville, awaiting word on charges against police officers in the death of Breonna Taylor.

How Ruth Bader Ginsburg Got Her Start at the ACLU

Before she became a Supreme Court Justice, Ruth was a mother, a law professor, and the founder of the ACLU's Women's Rights Project.

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Reproductive Abuse is Rampant in the Immigration Detention System

Immigrants are routinely abused, silenced, traumatized, and even killed by the U.S. immigration detention system. It has to stop.

A detainee sits on a bunk in a women's area at an immigration detention center.

For Justice Ginsburg, Abortion Was About Equality

With Justice Ginsburg’s death, the fight to protect reproductive freedom is more urgent than ever, as is the need not to settle for what we have now. But she taught us how to carry on from here.

Pro-abortion activist holds ACLU placard that reads "Abortion is healthcare. Abortion is a right." during a rally at the Supreme Court