UN Racial Justice Review Gives Biden Opportunity to Center International Human Rights

The administration claimed significant progress in its report and presentation to the United Nations, but true progress has been sluggish.

Delegates, arrayed in an expanding circle of desks, attend the 50th session of the Human Rights Council, at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland.

Fifty-Seven Years After its Enactment, the Voting Rights Act is in Peril

On this anniversary of the VRA, the fight to secure the right to vote faces its greatest battles in over a generation.

An African-American woman dropping their ballot off during early voting in Athens, Ga.

Ivy MacDonald

Ivy is a Montana based filmmaker and enrolled member of the Blackfeet tribe of Browning Montana. She graduated from the University of Montana in 2017 with a BFA in Digital Filmmaking. Over the last five years she has produced and directed work for Showtime, ESPN, ACLU, and is currently working on her first feature length documentary titled When They Were Here. When They Were Here is a documentary that sheds light on the invisible crisis known as the Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women & Girls crisis. She was also a 4th World Media Lab Fellow for Tracy Rector's indigenous filmmakers program and an alumni of the Firelight Media Doc Lab fellowship.

Ivy MacDonald

John Isaiah Pepion

John Isaiah Pepion, is a Plains Indian graphic artist from the Piikani Band of the Blackfoot Confederacy. He is based out of the Blackfeet reservation in north-central Montana, where the Rocky Mountains meet the plains. He is best known for his ledger art, which is an art tradition that developed in Plains tribes.

John Ppepion

New Records Detail DHS Purchase and Use of Vast Quantities of Cell Phone Location Data

Thousands of previously unreleased records illustrate how government agencies sidestep our Fourth Amendment rights.

A photo of three cell phone towers in front of a sunset.

Town Hall: The Future of Abortion in Montana

Wondering what the U.S. Supreme Court decision means in Montana? Watch this virtual town hall event featuring comments from featuring comments from experts in the field.

Abortion

Supreme Court Ruling Flouts Tribal Sovereignty

Tribal sovereignty is at risk; the meaning of the Castro-Huerta decision.

By Keegan Medrano, Sharen Kickingwoman

Sovereignty is at Risk

A Radical Supreme Court Term in Review

A look back at wins and losses for civil rights and civil liberties during this transformative term.

A view front of the U.S. Supreme Court Building behind riot gates.

With Roe Overturned, What Comes Next for Abortion Rights?

The impact of the Supreme Court’s ruling overturning Roe v. Wade will be devastating. Here’s what comes next.

Pro-abortion signage in front of the Supreme Court.