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Deborah Archer

@deborahnarcher.bsky.social

Professor @NYU Law. President @aclu. Social and racial justice advocate. Author, Dividing Lines: How Transportation Infrastructure Reinforces Racial Inequality

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Deborah Archer@deborahnarcher.bsky.social · last mo.

I wrote a piece for MS NOW that is part of “America in the balance: The fight for our history and future,” a special series that explores where we are as a nation as we commemorate the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. www.ms.now/opinion/amer...

America’s 250th year was horrible for civil rights. But there’s a path forward.

The civil rights framework we built to enforce our founding document’s promise of liberty continues to fall short.

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Deborah Archer@deborahnarcher.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Juneteenth commemorates emancipation. But jubilee demands something more: a society where access, opportunity, and power are built to last — not declared and then dismantled. What would it mean to finally build that?

Just Security@justsecurity.org · 2mo ago

From ACLU President @deborahnarcher.bsky.social (Deborah Archer): "#Juneteenth commemorates emancipation. Jubilee demands that we build the architecture of belonging ... the interlocking and mutually reinforcing institutions necessary to make full freedom meaningful and durable."

Deborah Archer@deborahnarcher.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I’m so glad to see this out in print! As the infrastructure of civil rights is being destroyed, we have to be clear about what we are losing and what we will need to reimagine and rebuild.

Stanford Law Review@stanlrev.bsky.social · 2mo ago

In the first Essay, @deborahnarcher.bsky.social and Joseph R. Schottenfeld outline the rise and fall of civil rights administration, warning that as the infrastructure of civil rights administration crumbles, we risk losing the state's own capacity to recognize, respond to, and remedy inequality.

Deborah Archer@deborahnarcher.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Please join me and the amazing Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Mia Bay, and Rosemary Ndubuizu for a virtual discussion of our books and the fight to live and move freely. May 7th at as part of the Schomburg's Conversations in Black Freedom Studies series. www.eventbrite.com/e/unequal-ho...

Unequal Housing and Transportation: The Fight to Live and Move Freely

CBFS: Scholars investigate and discuss the relationship between race and mobility in America. This is an online event program.

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Deborah Archer@deborahnarcher.bsky.social · 4mo ago

In my new essay forthcoming in the Stanford Law Review, Joe Schottenfeld and I examine what civil rights administration actually does. Our argument: the collapse of administrative civil rights enforcement is not just political. It is a structural. Civil Rights Administration: lnkd.in/eZywc_xe

Civil Rights Administration

Civil rights enforcement is often imagined as the work of lawyers in court. But over the course of the twentieth century, the administrative state quietly emerg

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Deborah Archer@deborahnarcher.bsky.social · 5mo ago

The ways we apply and interpret civil rights laws rarely speak to community. When predatory infrastructure or decades of compounded neglect destroy a community of color, leaving people in a hollowed-out shell of what they built together, where is their collective remedy?

UChicago Law Review@uchilrev.bsky.social · 8mo ago

@deborahnarcher.bsky.social & Joseph R. Schottenfeld draw on public nuisance and common law torts to propose a community equity framework that recognizes the collective harms imposed on Black communities by inequitable public infrastructure and development.

Deborah Archer@deborahnarcher.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Excited to have this piece out and contributing to the conversation about how we build and defend happy, healthy, and equitable communities.

UChicago Law Review@uchilrev.bsky.social · 8mo ago

@deborahnarcher.bsky.social & Joseph R. Schottenfeld draw on public nuisance and common law torts to propose a community equity framework that recognizes the collective harms imposed on Black communities by inequitable public infrastructure and development.

ACLU@aclu.org · 11mo ago

Our government's response to Hurricane Katrina was a failure of civil rights and infrastructure policy as Black communities were left unprotected and forgotten. As extreme weather events get more common, elected officials must root out the racial justice failures that enabled Katrina’s destruction.

Deborah Archer@deborahnarcher.bsky.social · 11mo ago

20 years after Katrina, the message remains clear — infrastructure is a civil right. Katrina exposed a structural failure: the erosion of infrastructure in Black communities reflected a deeper neglect of Black lives. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

The Greatest Tragedy of Hurricane Katrina Was Man-Made

Hurricane Katrina reminds us how racial justice and infrastructure are intertwined, ACLU President Deborah N. Archer writes 20 years after the storm.

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Deborah Archer@deborahnarcher.bsky.social · last yr.

Chicago faces a $770 million transit budget shortfall, threatening severe cuts that would disproportionately impact low-income communities. These cuts could devastate mobility and economic prospects for folks who rely heavily on public transportation. apnews.com/article/chic...

Chicago risks severe cuts to transit. Its poorest suburbs could be hit even harder

The Chicago area is facing the prospect of bleak service cuts to public transit if Illinois legislators adjourn this weekend without plugging a $770 million hole in the transportation budget.

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