News & Commentary

The Metropolitan Wilmington Urban League Young Professionals and the Delaware Human Relations Commission sponsored a forum on voting rights in celebration of Black History Month.

Wilmington parents and students are learning strategies to respond to overly harsh discipline policies, avoid suspensions and expulsions, and increase the odds of graduation from high school as a result of the new ACLU of Delaware Stay in School Project.

At 10am on January 1 2012, Delaware's law adopting same-sex civil unions took effect. Later that afternoon, former ACLU-DE executive director, Drewry Fennell and her partner, Lisa B. Goodman, president of Equality Delaware, became the first couple in Delaware to be joined in a same-sex, civil-union.

Delaware Governor Jack Markell made history today when he announced that he would commute the death sentence of Robert Gattis to life in prison. Two days ago, the Delaware Board of Pardons for the first time in its history recommended that the death sentence be commuted. Gov. Markell cited that “unusual and perhaps historic” recommendation when he made the announcement.

Issues of clemency for Robert Gattis and the overturn of a 20 year old death sentence have put Delaware’s death penalty in the spotlight. This is an important moment for those who support repeal of the death penalty and an opportunity for you to get involved.

The ACLU of Delaware is working to end school push out, or one of the causes of the school to prison pipeline. Stay tuned for programming updates .

2011 has come and gone. The ACLU of Delaware has made great progress, but we are still focused on the future. Thank you for your support this year.

World AIDS Day, observed each year on December 1, redirects our attention away from the statistics and reminds us of the people behind those numbers.

On Monday, November 28th, members of the ACLU Club of Widener Law School and ACLU-DE Stay In School Coordinator, Alexandria Nedd, volunteered at the H. Fletcher Brown Boys and Girls Club in Wilmington.