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July 11, 2025
The following remarks were made by Celine Zhu at the Justice Committee's rally + press conference in New York City on July 11: Good afternoon. My name is Celine, and I am an attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights, where we are counsel for Floyd v. City of New York which showed the NYPD was engaged in widespread racial profiling and unconstitutional stop-and-frisk policin g, and we have been fighting for over two decades alongside community groups and families seeking accountability for the NYPD’s practice of racial profiling and unconstitutional stop, question, and frisk practices...
There Is A Field movie poster
March 4, 2016
Jen Marlowe’s latest production, There is a Field , opens with actor Kesav Wable’s back to the audience. Wable plays Aseel Asleh, a Palestinian teenager and peace-activist who was a citizen of Israel...
Linda Sarsour speaks at the The Islamic Center at NYU
March 4, 2016
More than 100 people turned out last night for a CCR discussion titled “Challenging the rise of Islamophobia in America: An honest conversation.” And an honest as well as far-ranging conversation is...
February 5, 2016
In a major legal victory for international human rights law, the UN acknowledged the risk of extradition to the United States faced by journalist Julian Assange. This decision marks a significant...
January 29, 2016
Adapted from remarks delivered by Vince Warren upon accepting the 2016 Haywood Burns Memorial Award for Lifetime Achievement from the Civil Rights Committee of the New York State Bar Association, New...
December 30, 2015
The failure to indict a police officer for yet another killing of a young, Black person – this time a child, 12-year-old Tamir Rice – should outrage us and cause us to look more deeply at the...

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April 7, 2025