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On March 8, 2019, African Communities Together, Undocublack Network, Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Lawyers for Civil Rights, and 15 individuals, sued the Trump Administration for the administration's decision to end Liberian DED in March 2018. Here is a round-up of articles on the lawsuit from March 8, 2019- March 9, 2019:

Trump administration is sued over Liberian immigrant program

“A lot of us go from being kind of high status in Africa to being on the bottom of the racial and ethnic totem pole here in the US,” said Amaha Kassa, the director of African Communities Together. “We find out pretty quickly that no matter the color of your passport, in America, the color of your skin is black.”

https://popula.com/2018/08/31/it-was-like-there-was-a-fog-in-the-sky-on…

From March 28-29, 2017, ACT organised City of Refuge: 24 hours of action for refugees at Trinity Church in downtown Manhattan in coalition with 40 labor, social justice and immigrant rights organisations. The actions included rallies in front of the Trump Building on Wall Street and at Foley Square, a 'refugee tent city,' teach-ins, a ceremony at the African Burial Ground and an interfaith prayer service. The event was covered by over 20 media outlets. Below is a selection of some of this news coverage.

NBC: "Immigrants, Supporters take to streets in refugee day of action."

"Audu Kadiri, a community organizer with ACT, said that African immigrants have a responsibility to “resist, to organize and fight,” noting that the issue of refugee settlements particularly affects Africans."

http://observer.com/2017/02/advocates-predict-more-growth-of-detention-…

ACT members and staff were interviewed for a recent piece on Public Radio International's The World about the impact of the election on Africans, Muslims, and black immigrants:

https://www.pri.org/stories/2017-01-27/black-and-muslim-some-african-im…

ACT Organizer Fatou Waggeh was interviewed about ACT's participation in the NY march on the eve of Trump's inauguration, and African immigrant issues in the new administration:

http://nycitylens.com/2017/01/new-yorkers-send-the-new-president-a-mess…