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From the Boston Tea Party to the Montgomery bus boycott to the boycott of apartheid South Africa, politically motivated consumer boycotts have long been part and parcel of American politics. But are they protected by the First Amendment? For 40 years, the answer has been an unequivocal “yes.” But in a recent case from Arkansas, a federal court of appeals ruled otherwise. If the right to boycott is to be preserved, the Supreme Court must step in...

https://www.aclu.org/news/free-speech/its-time-to-reaffirm-our-first-amendment-right-to-boycott

This article was published online on February 11, 2021.

I. To My Mother

you were born on July 9, 1964, in Greenwood, Mississippi, delivered into the cradle of white supremacy. Listening to the stories of terror and hope woven into the story of your birth used to frighten me. The year before you entered the world, white supremacists were blocking food aid to Greenwood, trying to starve Black sharecroppers who were demanding their civil rights. You were carried home in the middle of Freedom Summer, right down the street from where Fannie Lou Hamer led a movement that included your neighbors and cousins to demand self-determination. You suckled and wailed, oblivious to your membership in the final group of Black babies born under Jim Crow. There were many such children, born just on the wrong edge of the fight for freedom. But only one of them was my mama...

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/03/voting-rights-act-democracy/617792/

Today we are #celebrating and #honoring, Bryan Stevenson, who is the founder and Executive Director of the #Equal Justice Initiative, a human #rights organization in Montgomery, Alabama

#NHHSCelebratesBHM #BHM #NewHaven #HealthyStart #EqualRightsJustice

To learn more about Mr. Stevenson: http://bit.ly/2OCYVhE

Today we are #celebrating and #honoring, Michelle Alexander, who is a highly acclaimed civil rights lawyer, advocate, legal scholar and author of The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

#NHHSCelebratesBHM #BHM #NewHaven #HealthyStart #CivilRights

Learn more about Michelle: http://bit.ly/2SpYW9X

Watch her Ted talk on the future of race in America: http://bit.ly/2UxYTeR