News & Commentary

Voter Registration Day provides an opportunity for Biden administration to expand access to the ballot box.

Access to abortion shouldn't depend on who you are, where you live, or how much money you make.

Investing in communities that have been historically under-resourced and over-criminalized is a long overdue and critical piece to achieving public safety.

By Tony Mason, President & CEO of the Indianapolis Urban League and Jane Henegar, Executive Director of the ACLU of Indiana

Guest Blog by Evren Elliott (they/he)

A year after the Supreme Court issued a landmark ruling prohibiting discrimination in the workplace on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity, LGBTQ+ Hoosiers finally feel a semblance of legal protection. But the fight for full equality is still far from over.

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.

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.

I spent most of my life wanting to be invisible, afraid to say who I am, afraid of the consequences of being me. At IU’s recent LGBTQ+ Health Conference I heard the inimitable Kate Bornstein say that for the first twenty or so years of her life, she had created herself, in her mind, as a gender girl. When she said that, and I thought, “Yeah…I know that…just for a lot longer than the first twenty or so years….” Living fully has brought me to a place I would have never expected – I have the opportunity