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As Mississippians return to work and children return to school this Monday, they endeavor to keep New Year’s resolutions which include losing weight, reading more, saving money, etc. While all these resolutions are good and if kept are likely to put the person in a better circumstance regarding their health, intellect, and financial stance – I would like to add one more to your list which will make Mississippi a better place for all. This year resolve to treat every person you encounter with the same dignity and respect with which you want to be treated.

Rap superstar Macklemore is urging his fans to get the card "that lets my gay friends marry the hell out of each other." That's the ACLU's legendary membership card. "If you like being free like me, get the ACLU card today," the award-winning rapper advises in a video he launched today. "There is no other organization that I believe in more.The tireless work of the ACLU to preserve the freedoms of all

MYTH: Republicans and conservatives don't belong to the ACLU.FACT: The good work of the ACLU to enforce limits on government power attracts principled constitutionalists across political parties. The ACLU is nonpartisan and does not endorse political candidates.

ACLU TO PROTEST SAGGY PANTS BAN- the headlines proclaimed! When the Hinds County Board of Supervisors considered banning saggy pants in public, the ACLU-MS opposed the ban and organized a protest. Our members and supporters called and emailed asking, "What's the Problem?"

Let me explain. I’m a graduate of Wesson Attendance Center Class of 2010. I loved my high school. I had great friends, I got good grades, I played soccer and was in the band, and I got along well with my teachers. I stayed out of trouble. My high school experience was pretty unremarkable, actually, until it came time for senior year portraits.

By Nsombi Lambright, ACLU of Mississippi Executive Director

Posted by Alexa Kolbi-Molinas, Reproductive Freedom Project

By Nancy Kohsin-Kintigh

That’s basically what a high school principal told Ceara Sturgis at the start of her senior year — you’ve got to wear a “drape,” or scoop-necked covering that looks like the top of a dress, in the yearbook photo. Ceara isn’t comfortable in such revealing clothing, and had spent her entire high school career wearing more masculine attire. The photographer took Ceara’s picture in a tuxedo instead of the drape, as she requested, but the principal jettisoned that photo and printed the yearbook without either her photo or her name appearing in the senior portrait section.