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The issue of immigration has been an ongoing debate for decades, but the conversation couldn’t come at a more important time under a presidential administration that emboldens the mistreatment of immigrants, calls them animals, and separates families. It is even more evident in the Latinx community. During a panel at…

Presenter Billy Eichner put it succinctly when he took the stage at the ACLU of Southern California’s Bill Of Rights dinner last night. “In awards season in Hollywood, the Bill Of Rights Award is considered the precursor to the Golden Globe,” he joked. But he just may be on to something. This is a star-filled affair…

Tom Hanks, Tina Fey, Alec Baldwin and Tracy Morgan are among the celebrities that will take part in Stand For Rights: A Benefit For The ACLU, a Facebook Live telethon to benefit the American Civil Liberties Union. Stand For Rights will stream via Facebook Live on Friday, March 31 at 7 PM ET, broadcasting from the…

Ruth Negga, Casey Affleck and many other celebrities donned a blue ribbon in support of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) at yesterday's Film Independent Spirit Awards and today's 89th annual Academy Awards. The initiative, Stand With ACLU, gives artists an opportunity to express their support for the rights…

Sarah Paulson tonight was feted for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Television Movie or Limited Series, for her work in The People v O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story. She ended her acceptance speech with an unusual plea by way of joining the chorus of outrage over President Donald Trump’s U.S. entry ba…

Liberal Hollywood came out in force tonight at the Southern California ACLU’s 93rd annual Bill of Rights awards dinner honoring legendary producer Norman Lear, actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Twilight director Catherine Hardwicke, BuzzFeed COO Frank Cooper III, and gold star parents Khizr and Ghazala Kahn. It was supposed…

Norman Lear, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and director Catherine Hardwicke will be among those honored at the SoCal ACLU's annual Bill of Rights Dinner. Others being feted at the event November 13 at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel include Buzzfeed COO Frank Cooper III and Khizr Khan, the Gold Star father of U.S. Army Captain…

Two days after Amber Heard and Johnny Depp reached a $7M divorce settlement, the actress says she is donating the entire amount to charity. The recipients are the American Civil Liberties Union, with a particular focus to stop violence against women, and Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles. “As described in the…

The ACLU is calling on legislators in New York to pass a bill that would make the state the first to grant financial incentives to TV shows that hire women and minority writers and directors. The bill would amend the state's existing $420 million annual tax incentives program to allocate $5 million toward…

A year after it called on the U.S. government’s Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to investigate industrywide discrimination against women film and TV directors, the ACLU said today it is "encouraged by the scope of the government's process" and is "hopeful that the government will be moving in a more targeted…

The federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission will begin interviewing dozens of female directors next week in an effort to see what action, if any, it should take to combat discrimination against female film and TV directors. A letter from the EEOC went out to some 50 women late last week. It could be the first…

Veteran director Martha Coolidge, a former president of the Directors Guild of America, wholeheartedly supports the ACLU's call for an Equal Employment Opportunity Commission investigation into the woeful underemployment of female directors. But she says the civil rights group was wrong to blame the DGA for the…