In this issue: “ACLU-TN Launches Voter Empowerment Campaign for November Election,” “Clergy Discuss Dangers of Amendment 1,” “The School-to-Prison Pipeline: A Community Conversation,” “Why Ferguson is Any City, USA,” and more.
"The Citizen is on the line," an American Civil Liberties Union staffer would frequently announce, sticking her head into my office. "The Citizen" was George Barrett, and the nickname was more than a moniker to him — it was a life's work.
Last November, Chattanooga embraced fairness and equality by adding protections for sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression to the city's nondiscrimination ordinance and offering domestic partnership benefits to city employees.