Juneteenth victory! Judge grants RISE St. James access to ancestral burial grounds for Juneteenth memorial services [caption align="right"] [/caption] Last week, Judge Emile R. St. Pierre of the 23rd...
D.C. Appellate Court Asked to Reverse Lower Court Ruling Refusing to Dismiss Lawsuit Targeting Advocacy as a SLAPP July 7, 2020, Washington, D.C. – Today, academics who were sued over the American...
Spanning from anarchy to uprising, people have found a wide array of words to describe the activity of the racial justice movement in the past two months. Rioting, protesting, insurrection, terrorism...
February 2, 2021, Washington, D.C. – Today, more than a hundred non-governmental organizations joined a letter led by the Center for Constitutional Rights and the Center for Victims of Torture,...
Shifting power to the people beyond Biden’s first 100 days Today we are launching our latest federal policy agenda titled “Shifting Power to the People: A Rights-based Vision for Biden & the...
TODAY — Pride Is Protest: Celebrating a Legacy of Black Queer & Trans Resistance, Resilience, and Rebellion Join us today 12-12:45pm EST for part two of our Instagram Live series ( @ccrjustice...
Art by Oaklee Thiele, part of the Breaking Point Project. On July 26, 1990, the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) was signed into law after the tireless organizing of disability activists across...
Ahead of the 20th anniversary of 9/11, we’ve launched “The 9/11 Effect,” providing background and resources on the United States’ post-9/11 response that caused two decades of injustice at home and...
Twenty years after the U.S. declared its “War on Terror,” civil rights lawyers and advocates sent the Biden administration a memorandum covering a range of federal policies and programs,
Prosecutor Seeks to Move Forward With Investigation Against Only Taliban, Islamic State-Khorasan Province September 27, 2021—Prosecutor Karim A.A. Khan of the International Criminal Court (ICC) this...
