NEW YORK — The American Civil Liberties Union today announced Ria Tabacco Mar as the director of its Women’s Rights Project. Tabacco Mar replaces Lenora Lapidus, who passed away earlier this year.

Forty years ago, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) board of directors determined that women's rights should be the organization's highest priority. Then-executive director Aryeh Neier, created ...

On Jan. 12, 1920, social activist Roger Baldwin and his friends convened at a club on West 12th Street in lower Manhattan to reconfigure the National Civil Liberties Bureau. They had organized the ...

For the venerable American Civil Liberties Union, Donald Trump’s four years in the White House had the intensity of life during wartime. The group filed its first lawsuit against the Trump ...

Competitors in the womens 10,000-meter run during the Division I Men's and Women's Outdoor Track & Field Championships on June 10, 2021 in Eugene, Oregon. Andy Nelson / NCAA Photos / Getty Images ...