Civil Rights

President Donald Trump said that Alligator Alcatraz will house “some of the most vicious people on the planet”. However, reports have shown the opposite.

One major complaint regarding The Immigration Detention Center has been attorney’s being unable to contact their defendants once they have been brought to the facility.

Collier County showed up to take part in a Good Trouble Lives On demonstration to oppose the loss of civil and human rights

Bacardi Jackson took over the role of Executive Director of the ACLU of Florida in May of 2024. Prior to joining the 60-year-old organization, Jackson was deputy legal director of the Southern Poverty Law Center’s “Democracy: Education and Youth” advocacy and litigation team, where she led efforts to stop the school-to-prison pipeline and to ensure equitable access to mental health services and high-quality public education in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana and Mississippi. We talk about the work the ACLU of Florida is focusing on now, as the executives, both here in Florida and at the federal level, are exerting their executive power beyond the bounds of what we’re accustomed to.

In cities big and small, the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was celebrated Monday. Southwest Florida streets were packed with signs, slogans and sanguinity.

Students, faculty and staff celebrated the start of Black History Month recently on the Campus of Florida Gulf Coast University.

Fort Myers honored Martin Luther King Jr. with a vibrant celebration, fostering unity and equality through engaging community events.

The Song of the Day is paying tribute to the singers, songwriters and musicians who died in 2023. Harry Belafonte died April 25, 2023 in New York City of congestive heart failure. He was 96. "Day-O" was chosen as The Song of the Day tribute because it was Belafonte's signature song.

MLK Day celebration in Fort Myers

The agency surveilled Franklin and those around her to gauge how deeply she was involved in organizations tied to Communism, the civil rights movement and the Black Power movement.