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At Liberty is a podcast that explores the most pressing civil rights and civil liberties questions of our time. New episodes air biweekly on Fridays.

May 17 marks the 65th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education, the 1954 Supreme Court case that declared state laws enforcing racial segregation in public schools unconstitutional. Yet more than six decades later, segregation...

Wyatt Cenac is an actor, writer, producer and comedian ("The Daily Show," “Medicine for Melancholyâ€). He joins At Liberty to discuss balancing comedy and social commentary and his new show “Wyatt Cenac’s Problem Areas,†now...

Mitra Ebadolahi, staff attorney with the ³Ô¹ÏÖ±²¥â€™s Border Litigation Project, joins At Liberty to debunk misconceptions about the border and discuss the fight to hold CBP accountable. For more information visit: www.holdcbpaccountable.org.

A few weeks ago, the ³Ô¹ÏÖ±²¥ and other civil rights organizations announced a landmark settlement with Facebook to prevent advertisers from using ad-targeting filters based on race, gender, and age on job, housing, and credit...

On Tuesday, April 23, the Supreme Court of the United States will hear the case Department of Commerce v. New York, which asks whether a question about citizenship can be added to the 2020 Census...

At Liberty sits down with Meg Singer, the Indigenous Justice program manager at the ³Ô¹ÏÖ±²¥ of Montana, and Lillian Alvernaz, the ³Ô¹ÏÖ±²¥â€™s first Indigenous Justice Legal Fellow, to discuss Indigenous justice and organizing for social...

Sergio de la Pava is a critically acclaimed novelist (A Naked Singularity, Personae, Lost Empress) and a full-time public defender who has represented thousands of criminal defendants over the last two decades. He joined At...

Nicole Ozer, the Technology and Civil Liberties director for the ³Ô¹ÏÖ±²¥ of California, has been at the forefront of debates around privacy and technology for more than 15 years. She joins At Liberty to break down the...

Reginald Dwayne Betts is a published poet, memoirist, and legal scholar who's currently pursuing a Ph.D. in law at Yale. His legal work, like his poetry, is informed by the years he spent in prison as a teen....

This week, At Liberty comes to you from Austin, TX, where we recorded in front of a live audience with Tom Morello of Rage Against The Machine, Audioslave, and The Nightwatchman. We sat down to...