"Face the Truth: Racial Profiling Across America” is a powerful documentary produced by Breakthrough and the Rights Working Group featuring stories of individuals affected by racial profiling and educational interviews with notable law enforcement and civil society leaders. The video released alongside the Rights Working Group report “Faces of Racial Profiling: A Report from Communities Across America” underscores the need to stop racial profiling by federal, state and local law enforcement.
Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, addressed a crowd of about 500 at Howard University’s Rankin Chapel in Washington, D.C. on Thursday, as part of the Chapel’s series on connecting personal values and ethics with professional life.
Check our this new video from the Providence Youth Student Movement (PrYSM) and Next Generation Media on racial profiling in Rhode Island. A great collection of stories from community members advocating for the state's Comprehensive Racial profiling Prevention Act.
The Supreme Court has unanimously found that using a GPS tracking device on a suspect's car without a warrant is unconstitutional and violates the 4th Amendment, which protects against unreasonable search and seizure. In most cases, law enforcement must get a search warrant before using GPS tracking and surveillance on a car.
The dehumanization and depth of hatred that has become manifest in the HB56 struggle has clarified for organizers and activists that the immigrant rights struggle is truly a racial justice struggle.
On Thursday, Oct.
Saludos Presidente Obama,
Cuando fue Senador usted copatrocinó la ley “End Racial Profiling Act” (Ley Para Ponerle Fin al Perfil Racial). Como candidato presidencial, usted prometió que firmaría una ley para prohibir la discriminación racial. Como presidente, debe mostrar liderazgo y tomar medidas para ponerle fin al uso del perfil racial.
En concreto, estoy pidiendo a usted que:
Human rights, immigrants rights and civil liberties activists called on Washington, D.C. city council this week to pass an ordinance that would limit the involvement of city police, corrections officers and agencies in immigration enforcement collaboration with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
Tuesday, at a press conference on the steps of the John A. Wilson Building--where city council and the mayor’s offices are located--activists called on the city to continue its tradition of being a leading progressive city on immigration issues.
Law Will Lead to Extreme Racial Profiling, Place Communities of Color Under Siege, Impede Public Safety
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Keith Rushing, Rights Working Group, 202.591.3305, 202.557.4291 krushing@rightsworkinggroup.org
