Providing voters more easily accessible, secure options to return their absentee ballots is a common-sense solution to ensuring everyone can cast their ballots safely and securely in the 2020 General Election.

The virtual happy hour will help attendees better understand absentee voting and the rights guaranteed to LGBTQ+ and Two Spirit South Dakota voters.

Libby Skarin, the campaigns director for the ACLU of South Dakota, will be speaking about the annual fight for transgender rights at the South Dakota legislature during the 2020 Lavender Law Conference & Career Fair Aug. 12-14.

Each year, the Advocate‘s ‘Champions of Pride’ issue profiles LGBTQ+ activists, artists, politicians and others from each state who are changing the world for the better. Each Champion is an example of how LGBTQ+ people can make a difference in local communities and beyond.

Mass incarceration was a major public health crisis before the outbreak of COVID-19, but this pandemic has pushed it past the breaking point. As cases of COVID-19 surge, jails and prisons remain a breeding ground for the disease.

The right to join with fellow citizens in protest or peaceful assembly is critical to a functioning democracy and at the core of the First Amendment. Unfortunately, law enforcement officials sometime violate this right through means intended to thwart free public expression.

Several state legislators sign onto brief asking the court to rule it is legal for taxpayer-funded foster care agencies to discriminate.

The frustration and anger seen pouring out in the streets is the result of past promises for reform unfulfilled coupled with the tragic ever-growing list of names of people of color who have been killed by police.

Tribal sovereignty allows the tribes to operate these checkpoints within their land. Undermining that tribal sovereignty, that authority for the tribes to govern themselves, goes against the treaties the tribes have with the United States government.