If what Nelson Mandela said is true—that “there can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul than the way in which it treats its children”—then America has some serious soul searching to do. In the United States, over 400,000 children have been removed from their parents and placed in state custody.

In 2023, Montana passed Senate Bill 458 (“SB 458”)—a law that unscientifically redefines sex as binary throughout the Montana Code. Bill sponsor Senator Carl Glimm advocated for SB 458, claiming that: “You may claim to be able to change your gender and to express your gender in a different way, but you can never change your biological sex. And that’s why Senate Bill 458 is necessary.”

The graduation on May 21, 1984, at Wake Forest University located in North Carolina. was truly a remarkable graduation.

Opened in the 19th and early 20th centuries, Texas’s youth prisons were once known as “reform schools. It was believed at that time that incarcerating delinquent youths in rural areas removed them from bad influences and ensured public safety. However, these isolated facilities quickly became notorious for abuse and brutality.

You wait to see a magistrate for your first bail hearing. When the time comes, the magistrate will pronounce the sum you will have to pay to go free.

Barbara McDowell met Justice O’Connor initially when she began clerking for Justice White in 1987. They shared somewhat common experiences.

Work permits can be a crucial solution to the housing crisis faced by recently arrived immigrants.

Over one year after Roe v. Wade's fall, women's reproductive rights are in jeopardy. Fourteen states have banned abortions, and some are targeting contraception.

The Supreme Court decided on June 15, 2023, in Haaland v. Brackkeen that the Indian Child Welfare Act ("ICWA") passed in 1978 was constitutional. The majority opinion by Justice Barrett did not decide the equal protection challenge to the Act and its concomitant implications.

Approximately 80,000 people in this country are held in solitary confinement while numerous challenges to solitary confinement in state and federal courts continue.

One public system designed to intervene when children and families are in crisis – the child welfare system -- is causing more harm than help.

For almost two decades, United States Customs and Immigration Enforcement has maintained a practice of confiscating passports, birth certificates, visas, and other essential documents from immigrants seeking to enter the United States resulting in a pattern of abuse.

Over the past two decades, debt buyers—companies that buy old debts for pennies on the dollar—have filed millions of debt collection lawsuits and obtained millions of default judgments, against low-income New Yorkers, mostly those in predominantly Black and brown neighborhoods.

The story of the movement for LGBTQ+ equality over the past half century has been one of remarkable progress punctuated by moments of anti-equality reaction.

Civil rights activists ask with much trepidation how much the decisions in this 2023 term will the conservative Supreme Court, with its 6 to 3 majority, damage the pursuit of social justice in the United States?

The five Supreme Court decisions affecting social justice issues in the Country this past term will have a profound effect on American lives for years to come.

Asylum Seeker Advocacy Project (ASAP), pursued legal action to safeguard the rights of asylum seekers and ensure they are able to work legally and obtain Social Security numbers. ASAP conducted an interview with Wendi, a single mother from Guatemala who played a central role in ASAP's grant-funded case.

Foundation President Jerry Hartman recounts his 1972 visit to Philadelphia, Mississippi, the site of the murders of three civil rights workers in June 1964.

In honor of the 50th anniversary of the expose of the abuse at the Willowbrook State School, Disability Rights New York examines the work that remains in overcoming substantial barriers for people living with disabilities.

The Foundation joins its voice to all of those who condemn the draft decision written by Justice Alito overruling Roe v. Wade and its implications for civil liberty in this Country.