Following a year of high-profile police killings of Black people and ensuing historic protests against racism and police brutality, a disturbing number of schools are suppressing the First Amendment rights of students speaking out against racial injustice.
The American Civil Liberties Union of Indiana today filed a lawsuit against the Monroe Central School Corp, after a student was suspended, in violation of her First Amendment rights, for a video she shared on TikTok.
After a year of national crises including the COVID pandemic, voting hurdles in one of the most critical elections in our Nation’s history, and highly visible cases of police brutality followed by mass protests, many Indiana legislators came in to session ready to strip Hoosiers of their rights.
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The Systemic Equality agenda is a multi-year racial justice initiative that seeks to address America’s legacy of racism and systemic discrimination.