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Arrested at Gunpoint for not Speaking English?
Daljeet Singh and Mohammed Chotri were on a Greyhound bus headed from Phoenix to Indianapolis. The two were arrested at gunpoint outside Amarillo, Texas, and held for thirty hours because a fellow passenger thought they were speaking Arabic.
CBP Called Her “A whore”: How Border Officers Violate Rights and Strip People of Dignity at Ports of Entry
“You’re a whore.”
By Cynthia Pompa
Will we be checking everyone’s genitals at the bathroom door?
Attorney General Loretta Lynch took to the podium on Monday to announce the Justice Department’s lawsuit against North Carolina over HB2, the state’s transphobic bathroom law. It could have been a forgettable speech, dry and boring, thick with legalese, though perhaps just a little combative.
By Terri Burke
Reproductive Freedom in Action
Walking into the UNT Law School conference room for the ACLU of Texas’s first Reproductive Freedom in Action conference, I was excited and almost in disbelief that such an event was taking place in my home city. And when I moved back to Dallas two years ago to start at UTSouthwestern Medical School, I certainly would never have dreamed that I would be involved in the conceptualization and organization of such an event.
By Leslie Johnson
Watching Out
“Look, but do not stare,” I tell myself, as our group was walked into a circle of hell.
Victoria answers the questions you've been Googling about transgender people
Ever wonder why someone is trans? You are not alone: It’s one of the most googled questions about transgender people.
By Dione Friends
Civil gang injunctions: What you need to know
Update: On June 6, Harris County Attorney Vince Ryan and District Attorney Devon Anderson agreed to drop the gang injunction lawsuit. "The lawsuit is being dismissed to allow time to develop and implement programs that create job-training and educational opportunities," they said in a statement.
By Satinder Singh
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