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"Supreme Court ends affirmative action in admissions. Colleges will be whiter for it."

06/29/2023

USA Today

Author: Deborah Archer

"Is this the end of the road for affirmative action?"

05/12/2023

Financial Times

Expert: Deborah Archer

"Reckoning with America's Racial Residential Segregation"

03/02/2023

ACLU's "At Liberty" podcast

Expert: Deborah Archer

"The city of Burlington holding a remembrance for Martin Luther King Jr."

01/16/2023

NBC5-WPTZ

Featuring Prof. Deborah Archer

"Conversations about civil rights at annual MLK ceremony in Burlington"

01/15/2023

WCAX

Featuring Prof. Deborah Archer

'Crime-free' housing law settlement with U.S. Justice Dept puts cities on notice

12/19/2022

Reuters

Expert: Deborah Archer

"New Suit Uses Data to Back Racial Bias Claims Against State Farm"

12/14/2022

The New York Times

Expert: Deborah Archer

"Supreme Court set to start new term with more opportunities to overturn precedent"

09/23/2022

Courthouse News

Expert: Deborah Archer

"Deborah Archer Shares 5 Lessons For Black Women Persevering To Become The 'First'"

03/23/2022

Forbes

Expert: Deborah Archer

"The future–and discriminatory past–of Flint’s I-475"

03/20/2022

Flint Beat

Expert: Deborah Archer

"Who’s ‘qualified’ to sit on the Supreme Court?"

02/01/2022

Politico

Expert: Deborah Archer

"How Manchin and Sinema Completed a Conservative Vision"

01/17/2022

The Atlantic

Expert: Deborah Archer

"Tampa police called for hundreds to be evicted. Entire families lost their homes."

09/15/2021

Tampa Bay Times

Expert: Deborah Archer

"It’s Time to Dismantle America’s Residential Caste System"

09/12/2021

Politico

Expert: Deborah Archer

"Black people are about to be swept aside for a South Carolina freeway - again"

09/08/2021

Philadelphia Tribune

Expert: Deborah Archer

"Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude...shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction."

08/04/2021

New York Times

Author: Deborah Archer

"Addressing The Racial Inequities Of The Interstate Highway System"

06/22/2021

WBUR

Expert: Deborah Archer

"14 Excerpts from Commencement Speeches Without the Word C*vid"

05/29/2021

New York Times

Featured: Deborah Archer

"The Highway That Sparked the Demise of an Iconic Black Street in New Orleans"

05/28/2021

Smithsonian Magazine

Expert: Deborah Archer

"How infrastructure has historically promoted inequality"

04/23/2021

PBS NewsHour

Expert: Deborah Archer

"‘More work to be done’: Derek Chauvin murder conviction brings relief, resolve to keep fighting for justice in George Floyd's name"

04/21/2021

USA Today

Expert: Deborah Archer

"A Brief History Of How Racism Shaped Interstate Highways"

04/07/2021

NPR

Expert: Deborah Archer

"Biden Seeks to Use Infrastructure Plan to Address Racial Inequities"

04/01/2021

New York Times

Expert: Deborah Archer

"The 2021 Above & Beyond"

03/30/2021

City & State

Featured: Deborah Archer

"'I was afraid to walk the streets of our community': ACLU President Deborah Archer shares how discrimination fueled her career"

03/29/2021

Yahoo News

Featured: Deborah Archer

"As the trial for the killing of George Floyd begins, ACLU president warns America still has long road of reckoning ahead"

03/29/2021

MSNBC (video)

Expert: Deborah Archer

"100 Women of Color Remember Their First Encounter With Racism—And How They Overcame It"

03/25/2021

Oprah Magazine

Expert: Deborah Archer

"Why people are getting evicted for calling 911"

03/15/2021

Vox

Expert: Deborah Archer

"Cities Should Repeal 'Crime-Free' Housing Laws"

03/08/2021

The Appeal

Expert: Deborah Archer

"Update On A Movement: How 'Defunding Police' Is Playing Out In Austin, Texas"

02/22/2021

NPR

Expert: Deborah Archer

"Texas’s power grid failing shows why Biden needs to go big on infrastructure"

02/17/2021

Washington Post

Expert: Deborah Archer

"New ACLU President On The Fight For Racial Justice"

02/15/2021

NPR

Expert: Deborah Archer

"ACLU elects Deborah Archer as first Black president in its 101-year history"

02/01/2021

The Guardian

Featured: Deborah Archer

"ACLU, for first time, elects Black person as its president"

02/01/2021

ABC News

Featured: Deborah Archer

"The Beat with Ari Melber, 1/22/21"

01/24/2021

MSNBC

Expert: Deborah Archer

"Virginia Judge Won’t Try Black Man in Courtroom Lined With White Portraits"

01/01/2021

New York Times

Expert: Deborah Archer

"How some California housing policies hurt Black people, Latinos"

11/19/2020

Los Angeles Times

Expert: Deborah Archer

"NYC high school admissions rules violate Civil Rights Act: federal complaint"

11/16/2020

New York Daily News

Expert: Deborah Archer

"Legislating Racial Equity Impact Studies in Transportation and Infrastructure Policy"

10/30/2020

Just Security

Author: Deborah Archer

"Pivotal Harvard race discrimination case to be weighed by U.S. appeals court"

09/16/2020

NBC News

Expert: Deborah Archer

"Jail Support: What Is It and How Does It Support Social Movements?"

06/15/2020

Teen Vogue

Expert: Deborah Archer

"What's Next - George Floyd and the Future of Policing in NYC"

06/04/2020

NBC New York (video)

Expert: Deborah Archer

"When the Police Call Your Landlord"

03/13/2020

The Atlantic

Expert: Deborah Archer

"Could a Bloomberg Presidency Really Reduce the Nation's Prison Population by 900,000 People?"

12/06/2019

Newsweek

Expert: Deborah Archer

"Why Trump probably won’t be able to add the citizenship question to the census using executive action"

07/11/2019

CNBC

Expert: Deborah Archer