Federal Court Rejects Government’s Attempt to Use Immigration Law Provisions to Block Mahmoud Khalil’s Habeas Challenge April 29, 2025, Newark, N.J. – The U.S. District Court for the District of New...
Amoretta Morris is the president of Borealis Philanthropy. For the last 30 years, Amoretta has worked to build power, equity, and justice by supporting community-led change. As president, she brings...
Lumumba Akinwole-Bandele is an organizer and educator based in central Brooklyn. He is the former National Strategies and Partnerships Director at The Movement for Black Lives. From 2011 to 2020, he...
Jumana Musa, Takoma Park, MD, is a human rights attorney and racial justice activist. She is currently the Director of the Fourth Amendment Center at the National Association of Criminal Defense...
Download this Executive Summary as a PDF . Learn more about the case, SMUG v. Lively. In March 2012, Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG) filed a lawsuit against Scott Lively, a U.S.-based anti-gay...
In early 2016, Indigenous activists on the Standing Rock Indian Reservation in so-called North Dakota began protesting construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL), a 1,172-mile-long oil...
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Legal updates in our family separation lawsuit against ICE In 2018, we filed an emergency case to reunite a father whose then 19-month-old son was forcibly taken from him at the Southern border where...
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Today’s historic International Court of Justice ruling against Israel comes out hours before federal case is heard January 26, 2024, Oakland, CA – A federal court heard arguments in the case Defense...
