May 16, 2024...The water crisis in my home city of Jackson, Miss., made national news again last year. The cameras have since moved on but residents continue to deal with issues of access to safe water except...
Our dedication to human rights and social justice struggles has led us to complement our legal work with robust advocacy and communications work, and a conscious effort to support grassroots...
Updated: December 11, 2024
March 14, 2012, Springfield, MA and New York –Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) filed a federal lawsuit against Abiding Truth Ministries President Scott Lively on behalf of...
Plaintiffs sue parish council for pattern of racist land use practices that centralize petrochemical plants in Black neighborhoods, declare that new suit is only just the beginning March 21, 2023,...
"It has become our destiny now to die without being guilty of any wrongdoing, knowing that even death, which could relieve us from this injustice and this suffering, is unreachable to us. Here we are...
Updated: October 26, 2023
January 25, 2017On January 18, CCR Senior Staff Attorney Rachel Meeropol argued before the U.S. Supreme Court in CCR’s case, Ziglar v. Abbasi (formerly Turkmen v. Ashcroft ) . Filed against Bush administration...
Download the factsheet here Learn more about ACORN v. USA Take Action: Tell Congress It Can’t Be Judge, Jury and Executioner ACORN: Organizing Poor and Working Class Communities The Association...
Updated: March 8, 2011
December 6, 2022CCR Board Member Justin Hansford is one of the 10 human rights experts who comprise the Forum
August 4, 2010, New York – Today, a federal court judge found that the City of New York’s 2007 FDNY entrance exam (Exam 6019) unfairly discriminated against Black and Latino test-takers...
February 4, 2011, Miami, FL and Washington, D.C. – Today, in response to an emergency petition filed on January 6, 2011 by six rights groups, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (...
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