The Civil Rights Center

04/13/2020

This event will focus on the importance of the right to vote in the 2020 election season. Speakers will address COVID's impact on the election, ongoing voter suppression efforts, barriers faced by college students, the power of the Black vote, building diverse coalitions this election cycle and more...

04/03/2020

At a time when many law enforcement officials across the country have reduced arrests, police are conducting business as usual in New Orleans and some other cities.

03/07/2020

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/07/us/politics/erik-prince-project-veritas.html?smtyp=cur&smid=fb-nytimes&fbclid=IwAR3D5IpCyDMYKijAb2rfMJKeUbpwUffR50RLYkOmg2yzWofBszETIg8NF2c

02/20/2020

A classified briefing to lawmakers angered the president, who complained that Democrats would “weaponize” the disclosure.

02/20/2020

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/02/hes-going-cheat/606643/?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=the-atlantic&utm_term=2020-02-18T11:00:38&utm_source=facebook&utm_content=edit-promo&fbclid=IwAR0TlKpP9gJ0IrJHrFbMEtvlMAsJUjIAY95bBWOdqO2eg1hOkvt_ViVJdQM

How should Democrats fight against a president who has no moral or legal compass?

02/13/2020

https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2016/11/10/trump-election-autocracy-rules-for-survival/

In the face of the impulse to normalize, it is essential to maintain one’s capacity for shock. This will lead people to call you unreasonable and hysterical, and to accuse you of overreacting. It is no fun to be the only hysterical person in the room. Prepare yourself.

02/13/2020

http://inthesetimes.com/article/19658/20-lessons-from-the-20th-century-on-how-to-survive-in-trumps-america

A history professor looks to the past to remind us to do what we can in the face of the unthinkable.

02/11/2020

Every year, thousands of children are removed from their homes by officials who fear for their safety—only to be returned within days. It “felt like being kidnapped,” one said.

01/10/2020

A recent federal appeals court ruling is an egregious example of the problem.

01/02/2020

Now Chrystul Kizer, who was 16 when she met Randy Volar, is accused of murdering her alleged s*x trafficker. She faces life in prison.

12/23/2019

A total of 15 suicides have occurred in Alabama's prisons since December 2017. On Saturday, U.S. District Judge Myron Thompson ruled today that the Alabama prison system fails to adequately prevent inmate suicides.