From the civil rights movement of the 50’s and 60’s to modern day issues of racial profiling and wealth concentration, African American activists have a proud tradition of fighting for social change.
June 27, 2012
"A woman's health decisions are a private matter between her priest and her husband." - Stephen Colbert
Stephen Colbert's quip may be funny, but the furor surrounding the access to contraception is no laughing matter.
May 10, 2012
During the 2008 presidential elections, many African-American churches took advantage of early voting to promote 'take your souls to the polls' - programs that encouraged voting by taking church members directly from Sunday services to the polls.
March 6, 2012
Mike Brickner, Director of Communications & Public Policy for the ACLU of Ohio, talks about private prisons with Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez of Democracy Now!
February 17, 2012Contains documents from Our Work is More than Our Job: Taking Advocacy Out of the Office and Into the Community
Presented at the National Association of Social Workers – Ohio Chapter 2011 Membership Conference, held on December 2, 2011.
Gordon Beggs was interviewed on September 27, 2011 in Cleveland, Ohio by Colleen Benoit as a part of our Oral History Project. Gordon served as ACLU Cleveland chapter executive director from 1973 to 1976 and then as ACLU of Ohio staff counsel for the Project on the Rights of the Institutionalize
September 27, 2011