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RALEIGH – The American Civil Liberties Union of North Carolina is demanding that the state Department of Public Safety immediately lift its unconstitutional ban on Michelle Alexander’s The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness in North Carolina prisons.
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. – The University of North Carolina Board of Governors is expected to vote today on a new policy to regulate speech on the UNC system’s 17 campuses.
RALEIGH, N.C. - North Carolina’s practice of charging criminal defendants with an array of court fines and fees unjustly burdens low-income people and violates the state constitution, according to a motion filed today in Wake County Superior Court.
RALEIGH, N.C. – North Carolina farmworkers and a coalition of civil rights groups filed a federal lawsuit today challenging a state law that guts the ability of farmworkers to organize and make collective bargaining agreements with employers.
RALEIGH – The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of North Carolina is urging the Department of Homeland Security to reject an application from the Alamance County Sheriff’s Office (ACSO) to reenter a program that funds local law enforcement agencies to engage in federal immigration enforcement
RALEIGH – Transgender people in North Carolina will not be barred from using public restrooms and other facilities that match their gender identity under a consent decree proposed today by Governor Roy