October 21, 2016Attorneys for Black Lives Matter activists sued the federal government this week in an effort to obtain information about its monitoring of constitutionally protected protests. Filed Thursday in...
Conversations with Lawyers December Events "The Supreme Court and Public Opinion" with Barry Friedman, Esq. Barry Friedman is a Vice Dean and the Jacob D. Fuchsberg Professor of Law at New...
Updated: November 20, 2009
CCR Bertha Justice Fellow Omar Shakir will discuss his work in Egypt with HRW over the last year, where he was a fellow and the lead researcher and author of “All According to Plan,” a...
Updated: October 17, 2014
June 2013On the street since the age of 14, a girl became addicted to drugs. At 17, she was arrested for prostitution. Though there was no force and no minors involved, she was placed on the sex offender list...
February 22, 2019...The Italian luxury fashion house pulled its Otto character from the Pradamalia collection after images of the black animal with oversize red lips exploded on social media, sparking comparisons to...
May 2013President Obama’s speech Thursday was eagerly anticipated by those of us who have worked for years to challenge detentions at Guantanamo and targeted killings abroad. As much as we would like...
November 28, 2017The FBI is not only surveilling Black Lives Matter groups but also feared that "black supremacist extremists" would target the 2016 presidential conventions, according to agency documents. Records...
September 1, 2015After decades of holding thousands of inmates in concrete, sometimes windowless isolation cells, where some stayed for 20 years or more, California prison officials are about to drastically reduce...
November 12, 2015A settlement has been reached in Professor Steven Salaita’s case against the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for firing him from his tenured position over his personal tweets criticizing...
Join CCR Executive Director Vincent Warren and co-panelists Dawud Walid and Rana Elmir for a timely discussion about the controversial government initiative known as Countering Violent Extremism...
Updated: October 18, 2016
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