2023 Ella Baker Summer Internship Program From taking on the NYPD’s racially discriminatory stop-and-frisk program to challenging indefinite detention and torture at Guantánamo and the cruel and unusual treatment of incarcerated transgender women by detention facilities in the South, the Center for...
"We can no longer sit as we become extinct," Ashley said. “I want to believe in the triumph of human spirit. That there are people who find this unacceptable." Ashley Diamond is a Black, transgender social justice and prisoners’ rights activist who is currently...
Most of the work being done towards police reform in the wake of our Floyd v. City of New York victory – where a federal court ruled that the NYPD’s stop-and-frisk program is unconstitutional and racially discriminatory – has been behind the scenes so far, but a central piece of the reform effort,...