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Professor @NYU Law. President @aclu. Social and racial justice advocate. Author, Dividing Lines: How Transportation Infrastructure Reinforces Racial Inequality

Deborah Archer

Juneteenth commemorates emancipation. But jubilee demands something more: a society where access, opportunity, and power are built to last — not declared and then dismantled. What would it mean to finally build that?

In my new essay forthcoming in the Stanford Law Review, Joe Schottenfeld and I examine what civil rights administration actually does. Our argument: the collapse of administrative civil rights enforcement is not just political. It is a structural. Civil Rights Administration: lnkd.in/eZywc_xe

I write something for Time magazine about how the attempt to dismantle birthright citizenship would hurt all of us.

I’m so glad to see this out in print! As the infrastructure of civil rights is being destroyed, we have to be clear about what we are losing and what we will need to reimagine and rebuild.

This country’s deep retreat away from a multiracial democracy continues. Another hard day for voting rights and our democracy, but the fight continues.

The language of the 14th Amendment is clear. If you are born on this soil, you are a citizen. The Trump administration’s attack on birthright citizenship is an unconstitutional attack on who gets to belong in America. That question has never been neutral. @aclu.org youtu.be/SL7f_iLvia4?...

Please join me and the amazing Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Mia Bay, and Rosemary Ndubuizu for a virtual discussion of our books and the fight to live and move freely. May 7th at as part of the Schomburg's Conversations in Black Freedom Studies series. www.eventbrite.com/e/unequal-ho...

I am so proud of the advocacy and public education work the ACLU is doing to protect birthright citizenship. m.youtube.com/watch?v=aNe4...

I have spent March at @rockefellerfdn.bsky.social ‘s amazing facility in Italy thinking about how to shift civil rights law & advocacy to better address the structural and generational injustices experienced by communities of color, as communities, and better address and prevent the collective harm.

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Deborah Archer

From ACLU President @deborahnarcher.bsky.social (Deborah Archer): "#Juneteenth commemorates emancipation. Jubilee demands that we build the architecture of belonging ... the interlocking and mutually reinforcing institutions necessary to make full freedom meaningful and durable."

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Juneteenth commemorates emancipation. But jubilee demands a society where access, opportunity, and power are secure, not contingent.

Jubilee Deferred: What Juneteenth Demands of America at 250