Carla Bell is a solutions reporting intern for YES! Magazine. Her freelance work has focused on civil and human rights, social justice, culture, and arts, and has appeared in The North Star, Essence, Ebony, and Crosscut.
And even when its investigations didn’t fix problems, the Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties provided an accounting of allegations and a measure of transparency for Congress and the public.
Despite significant advances in human-based research, millions of mice and rats are still used in U.S. laboratories each year—at immense ethical and scientific cost.