Social Movements & the Law

Research shows that neurodivergent employees display tendencies that can boost organizational performance—but too many organizations are not designed to incorporate their unique skill sets. meta property=

In the summer of 1887, eleven-year-old Hopi girl Polingaysi Qöyawayma watched from the mesa as government agents approached her village. Her mother quickly hid her beneath corn husks in their storage room, but the agents were thorough. When they found her, Polingaysi was loaded onto a wagon bound for Keams…

The National Indian Boarding School Digital Archive (NIBSDA) was conceptualized to serve as a national digital platform and digital repository for boarding school archival collections throughout the United States.

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Kimberly Panian and Hoi Yee Baxter have sued the Justice Department, claiming a

People in prison have a constitutional right of access to the courts to challenge their convictions, contest conditions of confinement, and otherwise protect their legal interests. Granting access to legal information and resources to incarcerated individuals also serves a broader public purpose, helping to expose wrongful convictions, identify unconstitutional conditions, and ensure that correctional institutions remain subject to legal oversight and accountability.

Hosted and reported by Rebecca Nagle and featuring leading Native historians, First America unveils how the founders’ treatment of Indigenous nations—and their resistance—shaped US democracy. The show does not simply add another blemish to the image of the founding fathers, it reveals the real story of why the colonists rebelled, what kind of government they created, and, crucially, how our current political moment was 250 years in the making.

Justice Brett Kavanaugh, who has long coached his daughters' and other girls' basketball teams at school, wrote the court's majority opinion.

Since 2010, the Red Dress movement, originated by Métis artist Jaime Black, has been both an artistic and educational call to action.

The Trump administration recently asked visitors to U.S. national parks to report displays or exhibits saying “negative” things about Americans and to restore sites as “uplifting public monuments."

Author: The team at Brooklyn Law School Library Each month, BLS librarians meet with Associate Dean Dominique Fowler and Brooklyn Law School (BLS) Communications staff to learn about upcoming cultu…

The Institute for Primary Facts has compiled more than 3.5 million pages of the Epstein files for public display at the newly opened Donald J. Trump and Jeffrey Epstein Memorial Reading Room.

It’s probably not an uncommon misconception to believe that archives are distant, hidden away and devoid of feeling. As a current graduate student pursuing a master’s in library and information science (MLIS), archival practice based on scientific principles, especially those framed in Anglo, Eurocentric ideologies can and do feel disconnected from capturing the vast tapestry of the human experience.

Navajo Nation Code (2009) & Uncodified Amendments Introduction Navajo Nation resolutions are passed by the 24-member Navajo Nation Council and its standing committees, then given to the Navajo Nation President for signature, upon which they become law. Permanent laws (enactments and amendments) are normally directed by the Council to be codified in the Navajo Nation […]

Dallas Goldtooth, an activist and actor famously known for his role on the television series “Reservation Dogs,” will address approximately 70 students and 600 guests expected to attend a University

Slow management in a fast world Meredith Farkas Portland Community College tinyurl.com/calmslow Photo by Tahir Osman: https://www.pexels.com/photo/blurred-people-on-railway-station-platform-17188893/

By Jacquelyn Francisco Published April 9, 2026. Tribal and Indigenous legal research requires something traditional legal training does not always emphasize: treating Indigenous Nations as sovereign governments with their own lawmaking authority, judicial systems, and legal traditions. [1] A

Skimming Google News for articles on AI and law libraries, I came across a white paper published last October: Building the Future of Law Libraries:

The Voting Rights Act over its six decades became one of the most consequential laws in the nation’s history, preventing discrimination against minorities at the ballot box and helping to elect thousands of Black and Hispanic representatives at all levels of government.

"Inside Out: Men Behind Bars," opening this week at The Invisible Theatre, brings the real stories of incarcerated men to the stage through research conducted inside Arizona's prison system.

Explore U.S. public belief in democracy with data from over 20,000 adults in the inaugural Kettering Foundation-Gallup study.

This post has been authored by members of DLF’s Digital Accessibility Working Group. As the April 2026, Title II compliance deadline approaches, members of the DLF Digital Accessibility Working Group began comparing notes on the misconceptions, half-truths, and “urban legends” circulating about ADA enforcement and digital accessibility requirements. What started as a lively discussion evolved into Read More