66% of voters say that rehabilitation should be prioritized over incarceration.

How Programs like HEART Fund Care, Not Criminalization

This week (May 5-8) is ACLU Community Safety Week on Capitol Hill. We’re joining the ACLU in DC to demand Congress invests in prevention, not punishment.

Illegal gerrymandering, voter suppression, and now rigging the courts

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Illegal gerrymandering, voter suppression, and now rigging the courts

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Yes, you have the right to #TakeAKnee. No, schools cannot force you to stand.

Protest is all-American. Take a knee.

Rowan County Commissioners Vote to Appeal Coercive Prayer Case to the U.S. Supreme Court

Rowan County commissioners voted unanimously to ask the U.S. Supreme Court to review a federal appeals court ruling that found that the commissioners violated the Constitution when they opened public meetings by coercing public participation in prayers that overwhelmingly advanced one religion.

By Mike Meno

Rowan County, prayer, ACLU

Trump Administration Will End Protections for Tens of Thousands of North Carolina Dreamers

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Voter suppression is white supremacy

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We Must Remove Shrines to White Supremacy

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Do you Dare to Dissent?

Dare To Dissent mural in downtown Raleigh featuring iconic protests

North Carolina’s Rewrite of HB2 Is Nothing More Than a Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing

HB 142 still enshrines discrimination against trans people into state law.

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A major victory for religious liberty in Rowan County and beyond

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit ruled with a decisive majority that Rowan County’s commissioners violated the Constitution when they routinely opened public meetings by coercing public participation in prayers that overwhelmingly advanced beliefs specific to one religion.

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