March 2015" In the overflow room set up for the much anticipated trial over the city's stop and frisk campaign, we came across two unexpected courtroom observers: a mom from Harlem and her 14-year-old son...
CCR Bertha Justice Fellow Noor Zafar will join a distinguished interfaith panel examining the recent surge in acts of religious intolerance, and how to counteract such intolerance both as community...
Updated: April 4, 2017
June 21, 2017Part 2 of our conversation with New Yorker reporter Jennifer Gonnerman and Mohammad Razvi, founding executive director of Council of Peoples Organization. AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now! ,...
March 2014Ending a long legal saga that began back in 2005, the de Blasio administration has agreed to pay approximately $98 million in back pay, fringe benefits and interest to FDNY applicants who took two...
December 2013To the Editor: Re “ After Issues in Stop-and-Frisk Case, Court Alters Rules on Judge Assignments ” (news article, Dec. 24): Your article suggests that our stop-and-frisk case, Floyd v...
July 2014"Though it received scant attention at the time, with a grand total of one Congressperson opposing and one witness testifying against it, condemnation of the federal Animal Enterprise Terrorism...
CCR Senior Staff Attorney Rachel Meeropol will speak at Fordham Law School about stereotyping, profiling and how it affects rights of Muslim, Arab and South Asian communities. Organized by Muslim Law...
Updated: February 20, 2013
January 2015"Last week, the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) quietly published a final rule governing conditions and policies at the Communications Management Units (CMUs) -- two highly restrictive prison units...
On February 2, 2012, NYPD officers broke into Ramarley Graham's home without a warrant and killed him in front of his grandmother and 6 year-old brother. Ramarley was unarmed and had not committed a...
Updated: January 26, 2016
Rob Santiago is the Senior Major Gifts Officer at the Center for Constitutional Rights. He works closely with the Director of Development regarding major gifts and development strategies. Prior to...
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