David Peery is launching a new Florida organization aimed at advocacy and legal challenges to repressive state and federal laws
The new budget includes penalties for masking while committing certain crimes
CoMo Mobile Aid Collective provides food, access to doctors appointments and medication, and other services to locals experiencing homelessness
The Biden administration sued Tennessee over targeting people living with HIV, most of whom were Black, but Trump has canceled potential future efforts in other states
Beginning in early May, a number of bills with one very particular aim have flooded local and state legislatures, and even the halls of Congress. In these divisive times, they have surprisingly bipartisan and multiracial support, with powerful Democratic politicians lining up next to their Republican counterparts and NAACP chapters
“I had now seen at close quarters the haughty white men who made the laws; I had seen how they acted, how they regarded black people, how they regarded me; and I no longer felt bound by the laws which white and black were supposed to obey in common. I
A climate protester named Mama Julz spent February 1 locked to a grounded helicopter, the kind usually used to transport construction workers to remote portions of the Mountain Valley Pipeline, the rushed and ecologically destructive pet project of West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin. After a few hours, police arrested Mama
Civilian oversight boards act as third-party oversight agencies for police departments
The city has long been a testing ground for surveillance tools as a mechanism for social control
Advocates say that post-Roe, anti-abortion centers form a key part of the abortion surveillance state
Resources for incarcerated people with severe brain injuries offer help with the criminal legal system—but could they keep people out of prisons altogether?
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