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Coming from a migrant, farmworker family meant, I spent half the year in Florida and half the year in Michigan.  We were nomads traveling in our wood-paneled station wagon up and down Interstate 75 in the late spring and mid fall every year from the time I was 4 years old until we settled in Michigan in the fall of 1987 when I was 15. 

In an effort to stop the unconscionable termination of water service to tens of thousands of Detroit’s poorest residents, the ACLU of Michigan has had the honor of working with a team of distinguished lawyers led by heroic civil rights attorney Alice Jennings. The legal team’s litigation, brought on behalf of a class of water customers who seek an injunction of shut-offs and a plan for water affordability was dealt a tremendous blow recently when the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed decisions by the Bankruptcy Court and the District Court to dismiss the lawsuit.

Cross-posted on ACLU National

The ACLU of Michigan sent a letter to Detroit City Clerk Janice Winfrey urging her to share correct information about Michigan's Voter ID law.

As the black body count continues to mount, there are incessant calls for a “conversation” about how to improve police/community relations. As a consequence, well-meaning representatives of the community and law-enforcement executives are convening in meeting rooms around the country.

The story behind the disability rights case being argued in the U.S. Supreme Court on Halloween is a story about the contrast between kindness and cruelty, a story about the right way and the wrong way to treat kids with disabilities.

The most recent numbers showing lead levels in the water of Flint’s public schools continue to hit with spine-chilling impact.Thirty months after an appointed emergency manager made the ill-fated decision to begin using the dangerously corrosive Flint River as the municipal water source for a city of nearly 1

A remarkable event quietly took place recently in Saugatuck. A panel of courageous women and men took the stage at the local arts center to share with area residents their experience as transgender people.

By Hannah Pollard-Garber, Guest Blogger