ACLU of Arkansas Executive Director Holly Dickson chats about her favorite part of the job and more as the organization celebrates 55 years of fighting for Arkansans’ rights.
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ACLU sues over rule preventing nonbinary and trans Arkansans from using correct gender markers on state ID
A new rule that requires Arkansans to use gender identifiers that match their birth certificates and takes the gender-neutral “X” off the table as an option on driver’s licenses is being challenged in court.
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Arkansas plaintiffs ask 8th Circuit to rehear voting rights case with national consequences
Plaintiffs are asking the full 8th Circuit Court of Appeals to reconsider a decision that advocates say dramatically undermines the Voting Rights Act.
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Black history on the chopping block, Arkansas civil rights leaders say at MLK event
The 60 years since Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s March on Washington have delivered progress, but not nearly enough.
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Arkansas plaintiffs say U.S. Supreme Court ruling affirms individual right to sue under Voting Rights Act
A group of plaintiffs challenging Arkansas’s state legislative district lines now may be looking at a stronger case thanks to yesterday’s surprise ruling from the U.S. Supreme Court on a Voting Rights Act case out of Alabama.
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The organized push for legislative hate
Here’s the ‘why’ behind our Republican supermajority’s self-serving obsession with hurting Arkansans.
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Slideshow: ‘Boycott’ screening at CALS Ron Robinson
Last night at Central Arkansas Library System’s Ron Robinson Theater, a full house was in attendance for a special screening of “Boycott,” an acclaimed documentary detailing legislative efforts in Arkansas and 33 other states to block individuals and companies who refuse to sign pledges not to boycott Israel from receiving state employment or state business.
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Conservative lawmakers plunge ahead with school bathroom bill targeting trans kids
Rep. Mary Bentley (R-Perryville) is a one-hit wonder with her fixation on transgender children that spans the years and the legislative sessions, but her fellow Arkansas lawmakers seem happy to stay stuck in the time warp with her. On Wednesday, Bentley sold her shoddy bathroom bill to the Senate Education Committee, moving it another step closer to becoming law and getting the state sued again for violating transgender children’s civil and constitutional rights.
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No longer specifically anti-drag but still a drag, SB43 now targets ‘seminude’ displays
“Yesterday’s amendment to the bill no longer explicitly targets LGBTQ people. However, it does apply to every person in Arkansas in overly broad ways that clearly violate the First Amendment,” the ACLU says of Senate Bill 43.
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Lawmakers go after drag shows as Arkansas’s culture war rages on
Members of the Arkansas Senate’s City, County & Local Affairs Committee faced off Thursday with an eclectic crowd of people who listed reasons cultural, spiritual, religious and constitutional for why Senate Bill 43 has it wrong. The committee passed the bill anyway.