Former U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens died last week at age 99, almost a decade after retiring from the high court. Stevens was nominated in 1975 by Republican President Gerald Ford,...
Updated: July 31, 2019
What happens when a response to the demands that come from the street lead to radically reimagining public safety? Protest and policy merge and “ The BREATHE Act ” is born. Nadia Ben-Youssef ,...
Updated: February 23, 2021
Film Screening and Panel Discussion Columbia Law School Jerome Greene Hall, Room 106 435 West 116th Street (corner of 116th Street and Amsterdam Avenue) 6 p.m. “The Response” is a...
Updated: January 20, 2010
“The Activist Files” is excited to cross-promote our 40th episode with “The Artivists’ Room,” Donkeysaddle Projects ’ podcast, which features conversations with artists, organizers, and activists,...
Updated: July 9, 2021
May 26, 2010, New York – Today, United States District Judge Nicholas G. Garaufis appointed former Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau the special master to oversee and expedite the...
Laila Al-Arian, Virginia, is a journalist, writer and filmmaker based in Washington DC. For her investigative documentary "Made in Bangladesh," she received the Peabody award and Robert F Kennedy...
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...
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! ,...
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...
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
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