It’s a hot summer in 1989, and the temperature in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn is not the only thing that is about to reach a boiling point. “Mother- Sisters always watching.” This...
To honor Black history is to celebrate Black futures and the radical imaginings of our ancestors. Generations of Black freedom fighters have put forward liberatory political, social, and economic...
Site Plan Hijinks Vitiate Council’s Consent A copy of the letter is available here . May 12, 2021, St. James, LA – Lawyers for RISE St. James and the Louisiana Bucket Brigade today sent a letter to...
By Vincent Warren, Executive Director for the Center for Constitutional Rights It is a bedrock principle of democratic government that the state cannot be judge, jury and executioner all at once. Yet...
Court dismisses claims arising from 2013 Boycott Resolution as a SLAPP (Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation), siding with Steven Salaita and others March 2, 2023, Washington, D.C. – The D...
Spouses, Children of Plaintiffs Are Arriving in New York January 11, 2019, New York – Yemeni-Americans who for more than a year had been prevented from joining their families in the United States...
March 5, 2007, Washington, DC and New York, NY - The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) joins co-counsel today in petitioning the U.S. Supreme Court for a writ of certiorari, asking it to review...
Win for Communities United for Police Reform: Litigation will be dismissed and prior temporary injunction to be lifted April 13, 2021, New York – Today, the New York City police, corrections and fire...
Black August 2021 — Fighting for Freedom from the Inside Black August honors the freedom fighters, especially those inside the walls of our sprawling prison-industrial complex, who, with their vision...
When the detention facility at the U.S. Naval base in Guantánamo Bay opened in early 2002, I was a junior in high school. This week, nearly 14 years later, I’m making my first visit to the base as an...
