Civil Rights
NYU law prof Deborah Archer is ACLU’s new board president; fight for racial justice expected to be a priority
Deborah Archer. Photo by Philip Greenberg.
A professor at the New York University School of Law with expertise in civil rights has been elected as the national board president of the American Civil Liberties Union.
The new leader is Deborah Archer, the ACLU’s eighth president over the group’s 101-year existence and the first Black person in the position, the Associated Press reports.
The fight against racial injustice is expected to be a top priority under Archer’s leadership, Anthony Romero, the ACLU’s executive director, told the AP.
ACLU, for first time in its 101-year history, elects an African American as its president By: CNN
By Leah Asmelash, CNN (CNN) Deborah Archer, a clinical law professor at New York University, has been elected as the new president of the American Civil Liberties Union the first Black person to hold the position.
The ACLU made the announcement Monday, calling Archer an established civil rights attorney, scholar, and teacher.
In addition to her professorship, Archer is the co-faculty director at NYU s Center on Race, Inequality, and the Law, and the director of the Civil Rights Clinic at NYU School of Law.
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Migrants last week in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, on their way to the U.S. border.Credit.Jose Luis Gonzalez/Reuters
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