August 2, 2016Jill Stein, the Green Party’s presumptive presidential nominee , has chosen human rights activist Ajamu Baraka as her running mate. Baraka was founding executive director of the U.S. Human Rights...
The furor over campus protests hit the news cycle just as Palestinians uncovered another mass grave
February 1, 2019, New York – In response to a report released today by a panel appointed by the New York City Police Commissioner to review NYPD disciplinary procedures, the Center for Constitutional...
August 8, 2018... “The NYPD’s so-called ‘Criminal Group Database’ and gang policing practices are a black box that, like stop-and-frisk before them, have subjected thousands of young people of color in New York...
March 2015Prosecutors are not overreaching in using an anti-terrorism statute against young activists accused of releasing thousands of minks from an Illinois fur factory, a federal judge ruled. ... Read the...
Southern Justice Rising represents the Center for Constitutional Rights’ deepened, renewed institutional commitment to liberatory movements in the South.
Updated: October 27, 2025
By Al Baker Thursday, May 13, 2010 Blacks and Latinos were nine times as likely as whites to be stopped by the police in New York City in 2009, but, once stopped, were no more likely to be arrested...
On September 13, 2011, CCR and SNAP, a survivor-led support group for clergy sex abuse victims formally urged the International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor to investigate the Vatican for crimes...
Updated: September 15, 2011
February 21, 2020...During the last two years of Bloomberg's mayoralty, Bloomberg continued to be a staunch public defender of stop and frisk even as its actual use plunged. Rather than implement the reforms...
June 4, 2020...In an emergency motion filed on Tuesday, attorneys with the Center for Constitutional Rights and the Legal Aid Society argued the police department was not complying with a set of reforms ordered...
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