RALEIGH, N.C. - In an important win for police transparency and accountability, the ACLU of North Carolina, the Charlotte Chapter of the NAACP, the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, and several Charlotte-based civil rights attorneys reached an agreement with the City
RALEIGH, N.C. - Earlier today, Governor Cooper vetoed HB 453, legislation that would have banned abortions based on the reasons informing a person’s decision to terminate pregnancy.
RALEIGH, N.C. - In a victory for people seeking abortion care, the U.S. Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a lower court’s decision to strike down an abortion ban. The law banned abortion after 20 weeks of pregnancy, except in narrowly defined instances of medical emergency.
“HB 453 flies in the face of racial justice and disability rights and casts a person’s reproductive decisions as discrimination to stigmatize abortion. This legislation presents an unconstitutional ban on abortions before viability and limits people’s access to care based on the government’s...
“The decision not to bring charges against those who killed Andrew Brown Jr. is a sign that the system is working as it was designed to. These cases of state-sanctioned murder are not anomalies. They are business as usual. Until we have radically changed the many ways the criminal legal system...
“Slavery and its legacy of oppression are parts of North Carolina’s history that Black people are still facing today. The recent protests and calls for racial justice demonstrate that people across North Carolina fully acknowledge the realities of systemic racism and sexism are still alive...