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Mar 14, 2023

Spotlight on Women’s History Month: A Q&A with Deputy Legal Director Bonsitu Kitaba

As part of our Women’s History Month celebration, we asked Bonsitu about her role in last year’s history-making effort to protect abortion in Michigan, the pressures involved in fighting for an issue that...

Feb 3, 2023

Spotlight on Black History Month: A Conversation With Legal Fellow Dayja Tillman

While in her third year at the UC Davis School of Law, Dayja Tillman applied for a job with the ACLU of Michigan. In a letter that accompanied her stellar resume, Ms. Tillman, who has lived many places but...

Jan 19, 2023

Protecting LGBTQ+ Rights and the Work Ahead

The decades-long effort to pass a law explicitly stating that ELCRA’s protections include sexual orientation, gender identity, and gender expression could finally become a reality.

By Jay Kaplan

The decades-long effort to pass a law explicitly stating that ELCRA’s protections include sexual orientation, gender identity, and gender expression could finally become a reality.

By Jay Kaplan

Jan 12, 2023

The year ahead

Following a year that marked unprecedented success in the areas of reproductive freedom, voting rights, reform of the criminal legal system, and LGBTQ+ equity, the ACLU of Michigan is looking forward as...

By Loren Khogali

Jan 10, 2023

Shunning those with criminal convictions hurts us all

As representatives of organizations dedicated to equal justice under the law, we are troubled that a member of any court in our state, let alone its highest court, would object to talented, qualified people...

By Loren Khogali

Jan 6, 2023

2022 Year in Review

In 2022, the ACLU of Michigan brought the formidable power of its legal, political, and organizing efforts to protect the fundamental constitutional rights of every person in Michigan.