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Mar 26, 2021

What Happened to "Innocent Until Proven Guilty"? House Bill 46 Would Take a First Step Toward Ending Louisiana’s Pretrial Incarceration Crisis

Right now if you are arrested in Louisiana, you can sit in jail for months before a prosecutor even looks at evidence, speaks to witnesses, or reviews police reports. You can legally spend weeks away from...

Feb 18, 2021

Oppression and Resistance: Black History Month in the Era of Reckoning

During Black History Month the ACLU of Louisiana is celebrating and lifting up the contributions and resilience of the Black Louisianans of every generation who have demanded justice, confronted white...

NAACP protest at Liberty Monument, New Orleans 1974

Feb 10, 2021

What the Black Panther Party Can Teach Us About the Fight for Racial Justice Today

When people around the world rose and demanded racial justice in 2020, they stood on the shoulders of generations of activists and organizers who had marched, fought, and died for the cause of Black lives...

By Alanah Odoms

Alanah Odoms interviews Ronald Ailsworth and Betty Toussaint Ailsworth

Feb 4, 2021

What the Lafayette Public Library Board Doesn't Want You to Hear

It is an undisputed fact that our country systematically denied Black people the right to vote for hundreds of years. Unfortunately, it's a fact that the Lafayette Library Board does not want its community...

Historian Martha Jones is pictured next to her book: Vanguard

Jan 21, 2021

The Equitable Future We Are Building in 2021

We have an ambitious, multi-pronged agenda fueled by our deep commitment to empower communities of color and dismantle racial injustice, which will need every ounce of your heart’s support.

By Alanah Odoms

We have an ambitious, multi-pronged agenda fueled by our deep commitment to empower communities of color and dismantle racial injustice, which will need every ounce of your heart’s support.

By Alanah Odoms

The exterior of BMike's Studio Be, with a mural of a young Black girl with her arms outstretched

Jan 14, 2021

Trump Has Been Impeached Again. Now the Work of Dismantling White Supremacy Must Continue

What happened on January 6th lends new urgency to our work to dismantle white supremacy and confront racial injustice.

By Alanah Odoms

What happened on January 6th lends new urgency to our work to dismantle white supremacy and confront racial injustice.

By Alanah Odoms

Image of white nationalists storming the U.S. Capitol