Since its inception, the U.S. Constitution has implicitly and explicitly approved of the institution of slavery and the racial caste system it necessitated. That legacy has deeply influenced how our...
Updated: March 26, 2021
While she did not halt the use of stop-and-frisk, Scheindlin appointed a federal court monitor to oversee a series of reforms. The city appealed Scheindlin’s ruling, saying it made officers...
Updated: November 1, 2013
False Information Created by Bureau of Prisons Continues to Affect Released Prisoners, Must Be Expunged W ashington, D.C., May 10, 2019 – Today, two men formerly imprisoned in federal Communications...
January 24, 2020, Bergen County – Today, a New Jersey court dismissed an attempt by Thomas Powers, a member of the Ramapo Hunt & Polo Club homeowners’ association, to dismantle a settlement...
July 6, 2020STARTING SOON! What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? Today from 11 a.m. EDT to 12 p.m. EDT, join the Center for Constitutional Rights, The Dream Unfinished , and Lincoln Center for a live...
August 17, 2016Last Friday, August 12, marked the third anniversary of the historic ruling in Floyd v. City of New York , in which a federal court ruled the NYPD’s stop-and-frisk practices unconstitutional and...
October 22, 2023...Right-wing groups and media outlets have launched false and defamatory attacks at Battling the “IHRA Definition”: Theory & Activism and the Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism since...
As part of its widespread investigation of universities in response to Palestine solidarity organizing, the U.S. House Committee on Education and Workforce sent a letter to Northwestern University on...
Updated: April 11, 2025
In a series of extraordinary legal decisions Tuesday, the Supreme Court has upheld President Trump’s so-called Muslim travel ban, and a federal judge in San Diego has ruled immigration officials must...
Updated: June 28, 2018
April 19, 2016, New York – Penny Pritzker, the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Commerce, has entered into a landmark class action settlement with African American and Latino plaintiffs whose...
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