Missouri’s Execution of Marcellus Williams: A Grievous Act of State-Sanctioned Murder
On Sept. 24, Missouri committed an irreversible and grievous act: it executed Marcellus Williams, a Black man who maintained his innocence until his last breath.
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Commentary & Blog
Outrage Into Action: My Experience Working with the ACLU
In June 2022, a couple of months before I joined the American Civil Liberties Union, I found myself on the steps of the Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., rallying and screaming in outrage at the Court’s...
ACLU of Arkansas Condemns Governor’s Suppression of Free Speech Voter Engagement Efforts
On Thursday, during a community event hosted by the Martin Luther King Jr. Commission in Little Rock, alarming reports emerged of Little Rock Police Department officers threatening to arrest volunteers...
Press Releases & News
Civil Rights Groups Tell Federal Appeals Court that Protections for Pregnant Workers Cover Abortion Care
On Friday, a broad coalition of labor, workers’ rights, and gender justice organizations filed an amicus brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit in support of the Equal Employment...
ACLU Urges Eighth Circuit to Protect Students' Right to Learn about Race in School
The American Civil Liberties Union, ACLU affiliates within the Eighth Circuit, and PEN America filed a friend-of-the-court brief today in Walls v. Sanders, a First Amendment challenge to Arkansas’s ban on “...
Arkansas Supreme Court Reinstates Emergency Rule on Gender Markers
Today, the Arkansas Supreme Court paused a circuit judge’s previous order blocking the state’s emergency rule regarding gender markers on Arkansas driver’s licenses and IDs. The court did not provide any...
