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Fundraiser for Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law by Angela Chien and Anne Harper Charity Hudley ·

Money talks, and I want my money to say that Black Lives Matter.
Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law was established in the 1960's and is fighting the good fight all day, every day. They are suing federal officials for the illegal use of tear gas and rubber bullets against BLM protesters in DC. They are fighting battles in multiple states to eliminate voter suppression. They are doing the work.
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After the immediate crisis is over and all the protesters have been bailed out, we need to find a way to make this country the kind of place where anyone can go for a run, or watch birds, or just live life, without fear, even if (especially if) they are not white. There are a lot of great orgs to choose from, and I want to focus on orgs with longer range plans to work towards social justice.

With that in mind, I asked a college friend and choirmate, Anne Harper Charity Hudley (who is a tenured UC professor in the Linguistics of African America, and who also spends a lot of her free time and energy showing and telling the rest of us about what it means to be living while Black in America) to pick a single social justice org that I should support.

Anne picked Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law -- it is led by Kristen Clarke, a Black woman who was two years ahead of me at Harvard, and three years ahead of me at Columbia Law School. After reading about their past work and ongoing focus, I believe in their mission and expertise, and I believe that in their hands, our donations will be used to help shift Black Lives Matter from movement to reality.

In their own words: "The Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization, formed at the request of President John F. Kennedy in 1963. Today, we are one of America's finest civil rights legal organizations. We work inside and outside the courtroom for a just America, fighting voter suppression, ensuring equal access to the ballot box, combating the racial disparities that infect our criminal justice system, addressing economic inequality, advocating for fair housing, promoting equal educational opportunity, confronting the rise in hate crimes, and more. For more than 56 years strong, we have been fighting to secure equal justice for all through the rule of law, targeting in particular the inequities confronting African Americans and other racial and ethnic minorities."