Afrika Owes is an Administrative Associate for the Legal and Advocacy departments at the Center for Constitutional Rights. She supports the department as a whole, as well as the Legal Director and...
Vince Warren , CCR's Executive Director, and Nancy Cantor, Chancellor of Rutgers Law School - Newark, will discuss the importance of Rutgers’ 50 year-old Minority Student Program (MSP) to the...
Updated: April 10, 2018
This Important Decision Comes After ICE Sent Mr. Khalil to a Detention Facility in Louisiana, Almost 1500 Miles Away From His Family April 1, 2025, Newark, N.J. – The U.S. District Court for the...
November 1, 2017The attorneys representing detainees at the military prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, blasted President Trump’s suggestion to send the suspect in the New York City terror attack there as “deluded” and...
In a Pulitzer Prize-winning series of stories, the Associated Press revealed through leaked documents that the New York Police Department (NYPD) had secretly launched a vast program of human mapping...
Updated: September 8, 2021
July 8, 2013, New York – Today, in response to the resumption of a hunger strike by prisoners in the Security Housing Unit (SHU) at Pelican Bay State Prison in California, the Center for...
Join the National Coalition to Protect Civil Freedoms (NCPCF) for a screening of The Holy Land Five. This documentary, produced by Al-Jazeera, examines their case in scrupulous detail to reveal how...
Updated: December 21, 2016
The Department of Homeland Security and FBI have warned for some time of ongoing domestic terrorism threats from right-wing radical extremist groups. The events at the Capitol on January 6, 2021...
Updated: February 18, 2021
CCR is proud to co-sponsor Carry it Forward: Celebrate the Children of the Resistance. The event will be a dramatic program held at Town Hall to commemorate the 60th Anniversary of the executions of...
Updated: May 8, 2013
Open records requests from RISE St. James in Louisiana revealed critically important information about the burial grounds of formerly enslaved Black people. Photo credit: Bron Moyi for Louisiana...
Updated: June 10, 2025
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