CCR Communications Director Dorothee Benz will speak on Civil Rights and the myth of religious liberty for LGBT communities at New Jersey City University on Tuesday, February 12th. What: Lecture and...
Updated: January 25, 2013
May 2010In a hearing of the House Select Committee on Intelligence earlier this year, Director of National Intelligence Admiral Dennis C. Blair testified that the President authorizes such operations if it...
June 17, 2015A US appeals court on Wednesday reinstated a claim against former attorney general John Ashcroft and other Justice Department officials, stemming from the abuse of Arab and Muslim men and others...
The Center for Race and Ethnicity at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, will host an all-day conference examining how city policies and infrastructure work to promote or undermine health...
Updated: April 13, 2016
Ani Cordero , notable for her contributions to world music, Latin folk, and indie rock, launches her most pointed and urgent work to date, Querido Mundo (Dear World), a record of all-original protest...
Updated: August 16, 2017
April 5, 2018The New York City Police Department is revising intelligence-gathering policies and training as part of a settlement in a federal civil rights lawsuit accusing the department of spying on Muslims in...
May 3, 2018...In a statement, the Center for Constitutional Rights—which represents many of Guantánamo’s prisoners—said it was relieved over al-Darbi’s transfer, but added, “His transfer came at great cost—over...
July 27, 2018Those who signed the letter included the Rev. Al Sharpton (president of the National Action Network and host of “Politics Nation” on MSNBC), Sherrilyn Ifill (president of the NAACP Legal Defense and...
March 6, 2019...The Associated Press reports that Center for Constitutional Rights legal director Babher Azmy celebrated the ruling and Brinkema’s decision to schedule an April trial. “After the smoke from more...
April 18, 2019...Some reforms have been driven by actions from within prisons and litigation. For example, thousands of people held in Pelican Bay and other prisons in California participated in a series of hunger...
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