Organizers with the NC Coalition for Alternatives to the Death Penalty (NCADP) say this will be the state’s largest anti-death penalty gathering in more than a decade.
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Released Inmates at Durham’s COVID Motel Say It’s Just Another Prison
Leaving isn’t allowed without permission from the inmate’s parole officer, so fearing further punishment, the majority of men have followed the rules and stayed put.
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A Few Floors in a New York Building Face the Federal Government in “The Fight”
The new documentary about the ACLU centers on four high-profile legal battles fought by the tenacious nonprofit.
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Graham’s Anti-Protest Ordinance Temporarily Suspended after Civil Rights Groups File Lawsuit
The lawsuit claimed that Graham’s requirement for protesters to obtain permits in advance was unconstitutional.
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Settlement Bars North Carolina From Blocking Trans People’s Access to Public Facilities
“This is a tremendous victory but not a complete one.”
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ACLU: NC’s “Ballooning” Court Costs Criminalize Poverty, Cost Counties
Judges “routinely order low-income North Carolinians—a disproportionate number of them people of color—to pay fines and fees that they cannot afford.”
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Five Words with Jazz Alchemist Rafiq Bhatia
Bhatia returns to his home state on Friday to perform at Ponysaurus’s Don’t Be Mean to People benefit for the ACLU.
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Ponysaurus Presents Another ACLU Benefit with Rafiq Bhatia, Wye Oak, Body Games, and More
In the spring 2016, Durham’s Ponysaurus Brewing released its Don’t Be Mean to People saison as a way to push back against HB 2. The brewery hosted a day-long concert to benefit last spring, and these days, Don’t Be Mean to People is a staple This fall, the beer’s mission gets re-energized with two days […]
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Triangle People Power Hosting Bail Reform Discussion, Film Screening
Triangle People Power, a youth-run activist organization, is hosting a screening of the film The Bail Trap: American Ransom on August 3.The event will take place at Immaculate Conception Catholic Church from six to nine p.m. The event will include a showing of the film, a panel session discussing cash bail reform, and a food […]
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Civil Rights Groups Sue DMV for Revoking Licenses Over Unpaid Fines
In a federal lawsuit, civil rights groups say the North Carolina Division of Motor Vehicles’ practice of revoking the driver’s licenses of people who cannot pay for traffic tickets is unconstitutional. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), the ACLU of North Carolina, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), and the Southern Coalition for Social Justice […]