Social Movements & the Law

"The labor conditions of incarcerated workers in many US prisons violate the most fundamental human rights to life and dignity," says Claudia Flores.

GOP Sens. Susan Collins of Maine, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Mitt Romney of Utah joined every Democrat in voting for her confirmation to the court.

Education Week summarizes where state policymakers are attempting to censor the way teachers talk about racism and gender.

Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin has asked the state Court of Appeals to overturn his conviction for the 2020 murder of George Floyd, according to an appeal filed Monday.

Findings from the Minnesota Department of Human Rights April 27, 2022

A conservative campaign to ban certain books from schools is prompting other parents to push back. The issue is often framed as the latest "culture war" battle, but some see democracy itself at stake.

Celebrate Arab American Heritage Month April is Arab American Heritage Month and all of last month we have been highlighting resources to learn more about Arab American issues. Below we recap those resources. National Arab American Heritage Month (NAAHM) celebrates the heritage, culture, and contributions of Arab Americans. Immigrants with origins from the Arab world

The ABA Journal is read by half of the nation's 1 million lawyers every month. It covers the trends, people and finances of the legal profession from Wall Street to Main Street to Pennsylvania Avenue.

A unified voice for home broadband access, public broadband access, personal devices, and local technology training and support programs. A community of digital inclusion practitioners and advocates.

As efforts to control books continue, Nashville Public Library hopes to reach thousands of readers with its "I read banned books" card.

NPR's annual Books We Love project rounded up hundreds of books that scratch whatever your reading itch might be. Today, we're going to talk about some of the nonfiction we loved.

The latest edition of NPR's Books We Love project rounded up hundreds of book recommendations from critics, writers and NPR journalists to try to give you just the read you're looking for. Today, we're giving recommendations for our favorite books about identity and culture.

These nonfiction books about censorship offer different perspectives in various formats to show how censorship and book banning persists.

This week marks the second anniversary of the police murder of George Floyd. We speak with Washington Post reporters Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa, wh...

Text for H.R.55 - 117th Congress (2021-2022): Emmett Till Antilynching Act

By Hannah Plotkin and Francesco Fasano The rate of housing loss is unfortunately increasing throughout Arizona. Rising rents, stagnant wages and job insecurity are driving a looming crisis. Exacerb…

Ahead of the 2022 Frontiers of Social Innovation conference, “Power at Play in Social Change,” a collection of articles exploring shifts in philanthropy, place-based social change, public interest technology, and more.

Breonna Taylor's mother, Tamika Palmer, met with officials from the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division on Monday to ask them to investigate the fatal shooting of her daughter during a botched police raid in 2020 -- and ultimately to bring federal charges against the officers involved.

By Jenny Silbiger The Americans and the Holocaust (AATH) traveling exhibit arrived to our island home of Oʻahu on January 28, 2022, and left a couple of days ago, on March 9th.  The traveling …

Virtually all the experiences in your daily life are affected by laws enacted by state legislatures--from roads and local services to criminal justice, women's autonomy, individual privacy, funding...

The U.S. Senate still must pass the CROWN Act before it can be approved by President Biden.

A lawsuit filed be a former Google employee on Friday alleged that the company engaged in systemic bias against Black employees and maintains a corporate culture that favors white males. The s…

Lawsuit accuses company of ‘racially biased corporate culture’ in which Black people comprise just 4.4% of employees

By Lynie Awywen Recently I have been job-hunting (yes – it is still as awful as you remember) and I have noticed a recurring pattern which prompted me to think about the ways in which ‘whiten…

Patients without any insurance will now start to see some of those free Covid testing options disappear as further Covid relief funding remains stalled in Congress.

As a Black woman who has spent thousands of hours as a career coach for women of color, I’m not surprised to see her unfair treatment.

‎Show The JustPod, Ep Introducing the Legal Education Police Practices Consortium - Sep 15, 2021

NCSL's policing legislation database provides you with legislation introduced in all 50 states on law enforcement oversight, data, policing alternatives and collaboration, technology including body cameras, training, standards and certification, use of force standards and other issues.