March 19, 2021, New York – On the 18th anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, the Center for Constitutional Rights issued the following statement: Eighteen years after the United States invaded...
It’s Pride Month, a month that centers the radical legacy of Black and Brown queer and trans people who rose up against police brutality and state violence. This month and every month we honor and...
Updated: June 21, 2021
May 8, 2023We stand in solidarity with Stop Cop City activists We stand in solidarity with the activists enduring mounting state violence and repression as they seek to protect their communities and natural...
The Center for Constitutional Rights joined Palestine Legal and over a dozen other civil and human rights organizations in submitting a letter to the Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights...
Updated: January 19, 2024
Data does not support claim that racial disparities in NYPD stops no longer exist, lawyers say New York, April 12, 2024 – In response to the report just filed by the court-appointed monitor in the...
May 15, 2024...The Banner twins are the founders of The Descendants Project, a nonprofit that fights for historic and cultural preservation for descendants of enslaved people. It was through their nonprofit that...
Long before Israel's genocidal campaign on Gaza, there was voluminous evidence of grave human rights crimes
Center for Constitutional Rights Senior Staff Attorney CJ Sandley will join a workshop at the National Lawyers Guild 2024 #Law4ThePeople Convention entitled Challenging Court Secrecy in Prison...
Updated: September 25, 2024
Center for Constitutional Rights Senior Staff Attorney CJ Sandley will join a workshop at the National Lawyers Guild 2024 #Law4ThePeople Convention entitled Challenging Court Secrecy in Prison...
Updated: September 27, 2024
July 2009A federal judge has determined that the Fire Department of New York City used racially discriminatory hiring practices that unlawfully prevented hundreds of qualified African American and Latino...
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