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The Eviction Crisis FOR PASSIONATE GUARDIANS OF CIVIL LIBERTIES Decades of housing discrimination led to mass evictions in a pandemic. ACLU client-activists are fighting back. THE EVICTION CRISIS WINTER 2021 | ACLU.ORG IN THIS ISSUE 02 In Brief Executive Director Anthony D. Romero looks ahead for civil liberties. 03 Letters to the Editor Readers from around the country respond to articles in the magazine. FRONT LINE 04 Priorities The ACLU challenges the new administration to confront racism. 06 Case Study A federal weapons program and its enabling of police brutality must end. 07 Know Your Rights Here’s what you need to know about 16 your rights while protesting. 08 National Report CONTRIBUTORS Decriminalizing sex work has gained popular and political support. 10 09 Friend of the Court Drawing the Line ACLU Legal Director David Cole With the 2020 census complete, it’s time to answers your most urgent questions. redraw state political lines. The ACLU is ready to thwart racial gerrymandering. VOICES By Michael Hardy 30 Run the Jewels Clio Chang is The hip-hop duo performed virtually to a freelance writer get out the vote last fall. based in Brooklyn covering politics, In Good Company culture, and media. 32 16 Stamped: A Remix helps teens identify Her work has Housing Insecure appeared in The New and stamp out racist thoughts. York Times Magazine, Discriminatory housing practices have The New Republic, always impacted Black women most— 33 Free Forum Vice, and more. during the COVID-19 crisis, the effects could Artist Derek Abella illustrates what healing looks like in 2021. be staggering. By Tasbeeh Herwees 34 Activist Spotlight An ACLU People Power advocate in I support Fairfax, Virginia, is taking on ICE. 35 My Stand 24 We Testify founder Renee Bracey Sherman talks reproductive justice. Preston Gannaway The Road to Reform our freedoms. is a Pulitzer Prize– The ACLU is facing the racist War on Drugs 36 ACLU Moment winning documentary head-on and pushing for real justice in photographer and The promise of Brown v. Board of Ed I receive secure, fixed payments for life—regardless of the economy—through artist. Published marijuana reform. remains elusive. in The New Yorker, By Jay A. Fernandez my Charitable Gift Annuity with the ACLU Foundation. With my gift, I am supporting California Sunday, Mother Jones, and 30 the work of free speech, equal access to voting, and the right to protest. others, her work focuses on gender identity, class, and our relationship With rates as high as 8.6%, learn more by returning the enclosed reply envelope II JEFFREYS VICTOR SWALL; J WEE; LEXEY JUSTIN GANNAWAY; PRESTON BY LEFT) TOP FROM (CLOCKWISE PHOTOGRAPHS GANNAWAY. PRESTON BY PHOTOGRAPH COVER: to the landscape. On the cover: Diane Charity, co-founder of KC Tenants to receive your no-obligation illustration or visit www.aclu.org/annuity. IN BRIEF LETTERS TO THE EDITOR ith this issue of ACLU Women Voters, successfully challeng- Nationwide turnout also enabled pos- Magazine, we’re turn- ing the president’s brazen attempt to itive momentum for criminal justice ing the page. For four disenfranchise Black voters. reform, including huge wins for pro- 125 Broad Street, 18th Floor years, we’ve weathered Our response was years in the making. reform prosecutors in Los Angeles, Chi- New York, NY 10004 212-549-2500 an assault on our rights In Georgia, 1 million more votes were cago, Orlando, and the Detroit suburbs, aclu.org/contact-us Wby an administration that has sowed cast in 2020 over 2018, in part as a signaling real change to address some Editorial Director division and injustice. Last fall, the peo- result of the ACLU and our partners’ of the worst racial disparities in tough- Marie-Adele Moniot ple said, enough. Our country’s electoral efforts to combat voter suppression on-crime strongholds. Managing Director system sustained record voter turnout and expand absentee voting, includ- As you’ll read in this issue, achieving Genie Cortez Associate Editor and an avalanche of mail-in ballots—and ing a lawsuit that challenged the lasting racial and economic justice Tom Vellner democracy prevailed. state’s poll tax on mailed ballots. In requires facing an ugly history: one Editorial Adviser The struggle to ensure that every vote Michigan, an ACLU-backed ballot ini- where people of color have been sys- William Eisenman was counted was hard fought: Before tiative in 2018 and our voter mobiliza- tematically disenfranchised and denied Creative Direction and Design Pentagram Election Day, the ACLU won more than tion efforts in communities of color set their right to thrive. In “Drawing the Production and Printing two dozen lawsuits in 20 states to safe- the stage for a surge in voting in 2020. Line” (p. 10), the ACLU’s analytics team MSP-C, a division of guard the rights of millions of voters. In uses sophisticated software to thwart MSP Communications The Summer Re: “Why Voting by Mail Is me who cannot throw myself on 2020 issue of the uncertain, anxious days following racial gerrymandering and voter sup- ACLU Magazine (ISSN 2640-3560) is a publication Essential” the front lines. 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Send editorial correspondence bail system. of America is a lived specific to the publication to ACLU Magazine, ACLU, vania, the ACLU responded in turn on eviction crisis—laid bare by the pan- 125 Broad Street, 18th Floor, New York, NY 10004, in Oregon where we have always Alan King or email to [email protected]. This is not behalf of the NAACP and the League of reality for all.” demic and disproportionately impact- a subscription publication, and we do not accept voted by mail—and it works! Yorktown Heights, NY unsolicited manuscripts or advertisements. ©2021 Ron Coleman ing Black women—and a federal ACLU American Civil Liberties Union Foundation. All rights reserved. Contents may not be reproduced without Culpeper, VA Re: “Transgender Youth lawsuit on behalf of tenants in Kansas the express written consent of the ACLU. Requests City, Missouri. And in “The Road to for reprints should be directed to permissions@ Speak Out” aclu.org. 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