In September of 1971, an uprising by the incarcerated men of Attica, a maximum-security prison located in western New York, ended in the bloodiest attack by state authorities in United States history...
Updated: August 26, 2021
Please join the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) in Brooklyn, New York on Friday, March 11, 2011 at 10:00 a.m. to hear oral arguments in Turkmen v. Ashcroft , CCR’s class action civil...
Updated: March 3, 2011
Gay McDougall’s work has consistently challenged inequality. She has worked on the fault-lines of race, gender and economic exploitation in the American context and in countries around the world. Gay...
Join the Center for Constitutional Rights, The Dream Unfinished , and Lincoln Center for a live community reading of Frederick Douglass's speech, What to the Slave is the Fourth of...
Updated: July 2, 2020
On June 8, 2020, the Center for Constitutional Rights joined the families of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Michael Brown, and Philando Castile, together with over 600 rights groups led by the...
Updated: June 8, 2020
March 30, 2020Dear Center for Constitutional Rights family, We are reaching out to you, our community, to continue to check in and engage during this unusual and urgent public health crisis. It is in times like...
April 2009On March 30, Senator Patrick Leahy gave five Vermonters a half hour of his time. We were: Martha Hennessy, a peace activist from Weathersfield, John Nirenberg, a Brattleboro man who walked from...
June 3, 2022...The discussion noted a recent increase in support by Americans for Palestinian rights. Activism favoring Palestinians has also grown. But as support grew, so did U.S. efforts to suppress such...
CCR Bertha Justice Fellow Stephanie Llane s will speak at the closing panel about government power and its ramifications at the Institute for Signifying Scriptures (ISS) Annual Meeting in Charlotte,...
Updated: December 19, 2017
On Wednesday, February 6th, join Center for constiutional Rights executive director, Vincent Warren , and the Jewish Association Serving the Aging for a viewing of this inspirational portrait of...
Updated: February 5, 2019
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