Celebrities for Justice: Time to End Mandatory Minimums
The piece originally appeared in the American Constitution Society blog. by Nkechi Taifa, Esq. Celebrities have a major impact on causes they embrace. I first witnessed this while working in the Free South Africa movement during the early 1980s, when tennis giant Arthur Ashe and legendary singer Harry Belafonte led a successful cultural boycott of South
166 Groups Urge President Obama to Preserve Funding for Syringe Exchange
The House is threatening to restore the ban on using federal funds for syringe programs at a time when 12% of all new HIV infections in the US occur among injection drug users.
Congress: Pass the End Racial Profiling Act of 2011
OSPC and various civil and human rights organizations ask U.S. senators to pass the End Racial Profiling Act and establish a prohibition on racial profiling.