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When Charlotte hosts the Republican National Convention (RNC) next August, North Carolina’s largest city will become the epicenter of not just a major political gathering, but monumental questions concerning civil liberties, free speech, policing, and public safety.

In 2009, North Carolina passed the Racial Justice Act (RJA), which allowed defendants to strike the death penalty from their cases if they could show that racial discrimination was a factor in their prosecution.

I am an undocumented immigrant who moved to North Carolina at 21-years-old. This is my story of fighting against House Bill 370. (English/Spanish)

After months of negotiation and pressure from the community, North Carolina prison officials moved Kanautica Zayre-Brown, a woman who is transgender, to a women’s facility. This is an important victory for Kanautica and for the community that rallied behind her.

I’ve spent the last three years fighting alongside LGBTQ North Carolinians and others to mitigate the harm caused by House Bill 2 and its discriminatory replacement law. Yesterday, we secured an important victory.

The General Assembly is about to approve a dangerous anti-immigrant bill that would force all North Carolina sheriffs to help Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detain and deport community members or face removal from office. We're urging Gov. Cooper to stop it.

If reparations are the right path for America, how do we get there? Join the ACLU for a tough but necessary conversation about racial justice.

The images of Oscar Alberto Martínez Ramírez and his daughter Valeria, who lost their lives trying to seek refuge in the U.S., have left us haunted. They serve as an important reminder of the urgency of the fight for immigrant justice and the need to stand up to the Trump administration's policies.