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Sep 13, 2023

How Our Affiliates are Fighting for Education Equity

Police Practices
ACLU affiliates are challenging discriminatory discipline policies, censorship efforts, and the use of force in schools across the country.
ACLU affiliates are challenging discriminatory discipline policies, censorship efforts, and the use of force in schools across the country.
Students raising their hands in a classroom.
Students raising their hands in a classroom.
Sep 6, 2023

Why Access to Education is Key to Systemic Equality

Education
Here’s how discrimination continues to impact access to safe, quality education today, and why we’re fighting to ensure all people have equal access.
Here’s how discrimination continues to impact access to safe, quality education today, and why we’re fighting to ensure all people have equal access.
A professor holding a lecture to a group of students.
A professor holding a lecture to a group of students.
Jul 12, 2023

Moving Beyond the Supreme Court’s Affirmative Action Rulings

Racial Justice
The work to ensure educational opportunities for people of color continues, despite the court’s decision.
The work to ensure educational opportunities for people of color continues, despite the court’s decision.
Protest sign that says "The root of bias in admissions is white supremacy, not affirmative action."
Protest sign that says "The root of bias in admissions is white supremacy, not affirmative action."
Jul 12, 2023

CCSD fights for students … not to see videos, public records surrounding violent arrest

Police Practices

The ACLU, which is representing the students, and Clark County School District, represented by at attorney with the private law firm Marquis Aurbach, faced off in Eighth Judicial District Court Tuesday over...

The ACLU, which is representing the students, and Clark County School District, represented by at attorney with the private law firm Marquis Aurbach, faced off in Eighth Judicial District Court Tuesday over...

Athar Haseebullah standing at a microphone speaking to the press while the 6 Emerging Leaders Board Members stand behind him in a line.
Athar Haseebullah standing at a microphone speaking to the press while the 6 Emerging Leaders Board Members stand behind him in a line.
Jun 28, 2023

ACLU of Nevada Launches program for Youth Interested in Civil Rights Leadership

Education

LAS VEGAS — The ACLU of Nevada is proud to announce the launch of the nonprofit’s Emerging Leaders program.

Emerging Leaders is an innovative, youth-driven program under the ACLU of Nevada that...

LAS VEGAS — The ACLU of Nevada is proud to announce the launch of the nonprofit’s Emerging Leaders program.

Emerging Leaders is an innovative, youth-driven program under the ACLU of Nevada that...

A group photo of our eight Emerging Leaders
A group photo of our eight Emerging Leaders
Jun 16, 2023

Lombardo signs bill to limit use of solitary confinement in Nevada prisons 

Prisoners' Rights

The ACLU of Nevada has been working on solitary confinement issues and fighting for reforms for more than 10 years, and this is not the first session in which Spearman sponsored legislation to reign in the...

By Ryan Vortisch

The ACLU of Nevada has been working on solitary confinement issues and fighting for reforms for more than 10 years, and this is not the first session in which Spearman sponsored legislation to reign in the...

By Ryan Vortisch
Prison chain Link Fence
Prison chain Link Fence