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April 7, 2022
鈥淪exual Justice鈥� Doesn鈥檛 Have to Mean Criminal Justice
April marks Sexual Assault Awareness Month and with that, we are bringing you a conversation today about Title IX. One of the protections against sexual assault within our education system and in our workplaces. In May of 2020, then Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos gutted Title IX protections for schools,...
鈥淪exual Justice鈥� Doesn鈥檛 Have to Mean Criminal Justice April 7, 2022
鈥淪exual Justice鈥� Doesn鈥檛 Have to Mean Criminal Justice
鈥淪exual Justice鈥� Doesn鈥檛 Have to Mean Criminal JusticeApril marks Sexual Assault Awareness Month and with that, we are bringing you a conversation today about Title IX. One of the protections against sexual assault within our education system and in our workplaces. In...
February 10, 2022
The Insidious Practice of Racial Gerrymandering
It鈥檚 election season again and, in America, sadly, that means it is voter suppression season. Starting in 2020, 49 states proposed over 440 bills to make it harder for Americans to vote, and many of them have passed. In 2021, state lawmakers started using the newly released census data to...
The Insidious Practice of Racial Gerrymandering February 10, 2022
The Insidious Practice of Racial Gerrymandering
The Insidious Practice of Racial GerrymanderingIt鈥檚 election season again and, in America, sadly, that means it is voter suppression season. Starting in 2020, 49 states proposed over 440 bills to make it harder for Americans to vote, and many of...
February 3, 2022
The Movement to Erase Black History and Culture
February marks Black History Month, a time to recognize the significant achievements and culture of Black Americans鈥揻rom bell hooks to Beyonce鈥揳nd also to honor an accurate history about them, a history that we know is rife with discrimination and abuse -- think: slavery, Jim Crow, and the structural racism we鈥檙e...
The Movement to Erase Black History and Culture February 3, 2022
The Movement to Erase Black History and Culture
The Movement to Erase Black History and CultureFebruary marks Black History Month, a time to recognize the significant achievements and culture of Black Americans鈥揻rom bell hooks to Beyonce鈥揳nd also to honor an accurate history about them, a history that we know is...
January 20, 2022
Will This Be Roe鈥檚 Last Anniversary?
January 22nd, marks the 49th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the landmark Supreme Court case granting the right to an abortion 鈥渨ithout excessive government restriction.鈥� Year after year, Roe has weathered legal attacks, but this year, due to the conservative majority on the bench, the threat to Roe v. Wade...
Will This Be Roe鈥檚 Last Anniversary? January 22nd, marks the 49th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the landmark Supreme Court case granting the right to an abortion 鈥渨ithout excessive government restriction.鈥� Year after year, Roe has weathered legal attacks, but this...
January 13, 2022
How to Win an Election From Jail
Joel Cast贸n was incarcerated when he was 18 years old. He鈥檚 now 45 and in November of last year, just two months ago, Joel was released after serving over 26 years. While incarcerated, he received a degree through the Georgetown Prison Scholars Program and started a mentorship initiative called Young...
How to Win an Election From Jail Joel Cast贸n was incarcerated when he was 18 years old. He鈥檚 now 45 and in November of last year, just two months ago, Joel was released after serving over 26 years. While incarcerated, he received...
August 19, 2021
Ashley C. Ford on Growing Up With an Incarcerated Parent
One in 12 American children, more than 5.7 million kids, have experienced parental incarceration at some point during their lives. Black Americans are 50 percent more likely than white Americans to have a family member who is formerly or currently incarcerated. At the ACLU, we are working to reform the...
Ashley C. Ford on Growing Up With an Incarcerated Parent August 19, 2021
Ashley C. Ford on Growing Up With an Incarcerated Parent
Ashley C. Ford on Growing Up With an Incarcerated ParentOne in 12 American children, more than 5.7 million kids, have experienced parental incarceration at some point during their lives. Black Americans are 50 percent more likely than white Americans to have a family member...
May 13, 2021
How to Save Lives in Jail During the Opioid Crisis
Three million Americans currently suffer from Opioid Use Disorder, or an addiction to opioids. Today, adults between the ages of 25 and 44 are more than twice as likely to die from opioid overdose than from COVID-19, yet this epidemic isn鈥檛 making the same headlines. When we zoom in on...
How to Save Lives in Jail During the Opioid Crisis May 13, 2021
How to Save Lives in Jail During the Opioid Crisis
How to Save Lives in Jail During the Opioid CrisisThree million Americans currently suffer from Opioid Use Disorder, or an addiction to opioids. Today, adults between the ages of 25 and 44 are more than twice as likely to die from opioid overdose than...
September 17, 2020
The Psychology of Social Isolation
As many Americans stare down the end of their sixth month of social distancing, we are re-running a conversation we recorded back in April, that still has relevance to our lives today.聽
The Psychology of Social Isolation As many Americans stare down the end of their sixth month of social distancing, we are re-running a conversation we recorded back in April, that still has relevance to our lives today.聽
May 7, 2020
Poetry, Prison, and the Pandemic
Our guest today is Reginald Dwayne Betts, a poet, memoirist, and legal scholar. Loyal listeners will remember our conversation from March of 2019. The episode was called 鈥淎 Poet Gives a 360 Degree View of The Criminal Legal System,鈥� and we talked about Dwayne鈥檚 journey from a teenage defendant sentenced...
Poetry, Prison, and the Pandemic Our guest today is Reginald Dwayne Betts, a poet, memoirist, and legal scholar. Loyal listeners will remember our conversation from March of 2019. The episode was called 鈥淎 Poet Gives a 360 Degree View of...
April 8, 2020
Isolation, Before and During a Pandemic
As many Americans stare down the end of their first month of social distancing, it鈥檚 clear that the toll of 鈥渟tay at home鈥� orders during the COVID-19 pandemic is much more than economic. The anxiety and fear that wash over us each day that we spend alone, away from friends,...
Isolation, Before and During a Pandemic As many Americans stare down the end of their first month of social distancing, it鈥檚 clear that the toll of 鈥渟tay at home鈥� orders during the COVID-19 pandemic is much more than economic. The anxiety...