After all three NYPD officers charged in the killing of Sean Bell were acquitted, many organizations, including CCR and Peoples' Justice (www.peoplesjustice.org) called for significant changes to the...
...The “ Black and Missing ” docuseries ― in addition to revisiting the disappearances of Pamela Butler, Tameka Huston and Keeshae Jacobs, among other scarcely covered cases ― examines just why that...
...Weeks after a federal judge rejected their concerns over Jackson water, several community groups are now seeking an audience with the EPA. On August 9, the Mississippi Poor People’s Campaign and...
Jonathan Hafetz , Associate Professor at Seton Hall Law School, Wells Dixon , Senior Staff Attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights and Martha Rayner , Clinical Associate Professor of Law at...
... Katherine Gallagher is a lawyer at the Center for Constitutional Rights. She represents victims of both U.S. and Israeli war crimes. Katherine Gallagher: “The sanctions announced by Secretary of...
... “Anyone familiar with the scope of surveillance and targeting of Black political dissent, or Muslim communities, knows that law enforcement has all the tools it needs to aggressively disrupt and...
...The clemency letter provided a harsh critique of the legal framework and C.I.A. detention system that the Bush administration established after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, the legacy of which...
Last week, for the first time ever, an international body asked questions about the Vatican’s handling of widespread and systemic rape and sexual violence. Last Wednesday, survivors of rape and...
2009-04-06 Washington, D.C. – Today, lawyers for 17 Uighurs imprisoned at Guantánamo Bay asked the Supreme Court to recognize that the right to habeas corpus requires a remedy when a...
