Spanning from anarchy to uprising, people have found a wide array of words to describe the activity of the racial justice movement in the past two months. Rioting, protesting, insurrection, terrorism...
Police unions are trying to block police transparency campaign #Repeal50a. We're fighting back. [caption align="right"] [/caption] Last week, with the law firm Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliff LLP,...
“Keep the Faith” are the thoughtful words The Honorable John Lewis wrote in my autographed copy of his memoir in 1998, shortly after his book, “Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement,”...
Breaking! Fordham University is still trying to silence Students for Justice in Palestine [caption align="right"] [/caption] Students asked New York’s Appellate Court Friday to reject an effort by...
Victory! Appeals court rules Bayou Bridge Pipeline company 'trampled' landowners' rights [caption align="right"] [/caption] On Thursday, an appeals court for the State of Louisiana ruled that the...
We're suing to end cruel and unconstitutional death-by-incarceration sentences [caption align="right"] [/caption] People in Pennsylvania serving death-by-incarceration sentences (commonly known as “...
On July 8th, the Abolitionist Law Center, Amistad Law Project, and the Center for Constitutional Rights filed a lawsuit in Pennsylvania, seeking to abolish the states’s cruel mandatory Life Without...
STARTING SOON! What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? Today from 11 a.m. EDT to 12 p.m. EDT, join the Center for Constitutional Rights, The Dream Unfinished , and Lincoln Center for a live...
Charges against Urooj Rahman and Colin Mattis should be dropped. [caption align="right"] [/caption] Last Monday, the Center for Constitutional Rights — along with a coalition of other civil rights...
Juneteenth victory! Judge grants RISE St. James access to ancestral burial grounds for Juneteenth memorial services [caption align="right"] [/caption] Last week, Judge Emile R. St. Pierre of the 23rd...
This is the last in a four-part series of blogs about the movement response to COVID-19. It also appears as the latest episode of the Center for Constitutional Rights podcast, The Activist Files...
Releases from ICE detention in Louisiana! Nearly all of our medically vulnerable clients in ICE detention in six Louisiana facilities were released out of concerns for their lives and health amidst...
We all have a role in this movement #BlackLivesMatter [caption align="right"] [/caption] Sparked by the killing of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Tony McDade, and others whose names we may never know...
Inter-American Commission on Human Rights issues HISTORIC decision on former Guantánamo detainee’s case [caption align="right"] [/caption] Almost two decades after Algerian citizen Djamel Ameziane...
In the wake of a slew of incidents of anti-Black violence, it is more apparent than ever that especially during a pandemic our Black lives don’t matter. Just this week, George Floyd was killed after...
Trump's public charge rules will only exacerbate the coronavirus health crisis Last week, we joined New York State Attorney General Letitia James arguing (via videostream) before a federal district...
This is the third in a series of blogs about the movement response to COVID-19. In this age of the novel coronavirus, millions of people in the United States—those who are not considered essential...
Men in CA continue to be held alone in cells 23 hours a day [caption align="right"] [/caption] On Wednesday, attorneys argued before the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, urging the court to uphold a...
Stop Solitary Confinement: Join us May 12 for virtual oral arguments in Ashker v. Governor of California [caption align="right"] [/caption] Join us Tuesday, May 12 as arguments are heard in the Ninth...
YES! Federal judge recommends release of 13 ICE detainees in Louisiana amid COVID-19 [caption align="right"] [/caption] On Thursday evening, a federal judge recommended the release of 13 medically...
