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...
Guests: Paul Washington , past president of the fraternal order of black firefighters, the Vulcan Society. Shayana Kadidal , managing attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights. AMY GOODMAN:...
Updated: March 18, 2010
On September 13, 2011, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), on behalf of the Survivor’s Network for those Abused by Priests (SNAP) and five individual complainants, submitted a detailed...
Updated: October 18, 2018
October 8, 2010, New York – The Center For Constitutional Rights (CCR) and the American Civil Liberties Union today filed a brief in federal court responding to the Obama administration's...
Cancer Alley residents are challenging St. James Parish Council’s decades-old practice of placing plants in majority-Black districts April 9, 2025, New Orleans – Today, the Fifth Circuit Court of...
In a major victory for Georgetown scholar Dr. Badar Khan Suri, a federal court rules his habeas case may remain in Virginia.
by Leili Kashani, Center for Constitutional Rights This month marks five years since three men who were never charged with any crime died in US custody at Guantánamo under circumstances that...
Updated: June 20, 2011
Makes Strong Recommendations to U.S., Including Reparations Washington, D.C. & New York City, May 28, 2020 — Almost two decades after Algerian citizen Djamel Ameziane was detained and sent to...
Advocates for Descendants of Enslaved People are Trying to Prevent Construction of Massive Grain Terminal April 28, 2022, St. John the Baptist Parish, Louisiana – Today, a district court judge...
May 6, 2026, Washington, D.C. – A Somali man detained without charge at Guantánamo since 2006 today asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit to order summarily his release...
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