Could Rosa Parks, who was arrested in Montgomery, Alabama in 1955 for violating segregation laws by sitting in the white-only section of a bus and refusing to move, be considered a “homegrown...
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May 30, 2017..."I think really at the end of the day, what we need to see in not only the New York City Police Department, but in police departments around the country is really a culture change, that we move...
April 3, 2020... “Absolutely this was targeting male New Yorkers, and of course Black and Latinx male New Yorkers,” says Nahal Zamani, the advocacy program manager at the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), “...
June 5, 2019... But these hunger strikes in H Unit didn’t prompt investigations into conditions there or condemnations from the American Medical Association or calls from elected officials about the need for...
On Capitol Hill, debate has begun over forming a truth commission to shed light on the Bush administration’s secret polices on detention, interrogation and domestic spying. A hearing on the issue was...
October 4, 2021The ICC Prosecutor will focus on crimes allegedly committed by the Taliban and the Islamic State.
October 27, 2021U.S. constitutional law has both shaped and been shaped by projects of colonial expansion
October 8, 2018In response to the Senate's confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) issued the following statement: The Center for Constitutional Rights...
October 15, 2018Immigrant father who challenged his detention and a five-month incommunicado separation from his infant son released on bond A Honduran immigrant, Mr. C., who was held in a New York detention center...
June 24, 2019Reflecting on the Stonewall uprising and 50 years of struggle On the 15th episode of The Activist Files, Staff Attorney Chinyere Ezie and Dean Spade , author , activist, and law professor at Seattle...
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