On World Water Day, We Call Attention to the Ongoing Water Crisis in Jackson, Mississippi March 22, 2025By maya finohA moment to spotlight Jackson residents’ long struggle to realize their human right to safe water
Black Elders and Community Leaders from Louisiana Testify at UN on Systemic Racism, Meet with UNESCO on Protection of Burial GroundsAugust 14, 2022Delegation says the siting of toxic industry in Cancer Alley is “genocidal,” demands moratorium, and calls for slavery reparations
Louisiana activists to participate in U.N. Racial Discrimination Review of U.S. in GenevaAugust 9, 2022They will discuss the struggle of Black communities against toxic industry, environmental racism, and desecration of the burial grounds of enslaved people
Family of Slain Palestinian American Journalist Shireen Abu Akleh Visits DC August 3, 2022They Press For Accountability and End to Israeli Impunity
Muslim, Arab, South Asian 9/11 Detainees Abused at Brooklyn Detention Center are Finally CompensatedJuly 12, 2022In rare move, Federal Bureau of Prisons provides funds so that former warden can settle suit
Extremist Supreme Court Reverses Roe v. Wade June 28, 2022“An Authoritarian Jurisprudence of Violence and Control”
The Center for Constitutional Rights Reacts to the Extremist Supreme Court’s Lawless Reversal of Roe v. WadeJune 24, 2022“An Authoritarian Jurisprudence of Violence and Control”
Jean Entine, Presente!June 23, 2022By Marjorie FineA tribute to social justice champion and beloved board member
Rep. Grijalva visits The Descendants Project and Cancer AlleyJune 21, 2022The two-day visit was part of a community-input process for the Environmental Justice For All Act
Louisiana Man Convicted by Unconstitutional Jury is Released on Parole after 31 years in Angola Prison June 13, 2022Rufus Henry was convicted by a "Jim Crow Jury"
Ready to Join Us in Washington on June 18th?June 7, 2022We are proud to invite you to join the Mass Poor People’s & Low-Wage Workers’ Assembly and Moral March
Join us for "Unjust By Design: Criminal Legal System"June 1, 2022We are proud to present the next installment in By Design, our Spring/Summer 2022 Freedom Flicks Film Series
Descendants of enslaved people ask Louisiana court to stop “pre-construction” on land likely containing ancestral graves May 24, 2022A Denver-based company is seeking to build a massive grain terminal in Wallace, a historic Black community in "Cancer Allley"
News: NYPD Continues to Underreport Use of Stop and FriskMay 16, 2022The monitor in our landmark stop-and-frisk case has issued another report
News: Non-unanimous jury verdicts are a vestige of slavery and should be overturnedMay 11, 2022Jim Crow juries helped Louisiana reproduce a system of white domination following the Civil War
Ruling: Residents of Historic Black Community in Louisiana Will Get Day in Court in Challenge to Rezoning OrdinanceMay 2, 2022The Descendants Project is trying to prevent construction of a massive grain terminal
Afghan Groups Challenge Effort to Seize Billions from the Central Bank of AfghanistanApril 25, 2022Money belongs to the people of Afghanistan, groups say in legal brief
News: Lawsuit Challenging “Death by Incarceration” goes before Pennsylvania Supreme CourtApril 18, 2022The first case of its kind in the country, it seeks an end to the ban on parole for felony murder
Brooklyn Shooting Highlights the Need for AbolitionApril 14, 2022By Lexi WebsterMore police is precisely the wrong responsebrooklyn shooting, sunset park, gun violence, abolition
Join us in court! Oral Argument in Death-By-Incareration CaseApril 12, 2022Four people are challenging Pennsylvania's lifetime ban on parole for "felony murder."
Congratulations, Justice Jackson April 12, 2022Welcome the first Black woman on the Supreme Court in its 232-year history
