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
CCR is grateful for the important work and solidarity of Jews for Racial and Economic Justice (JFREJ), and we are honored to join in their 2016 Rabbi Marshall T. Meyer Risk Taker Awards ceremony. CCR...
Updated: November 21, 2016
CCR Legal Director Baher Azmy will join a panel discussion to address the migration issues in America under the Trump administration. For more information about the event, visit the MIT Center for...
Updated: February 24, 2017
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...
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...
June 12, 2019...“We are deeply concerned that New York State continues to enforce NYS Penal Law § 240.37 , an archaic anti-loitering law that has led law enforcement to engage in widespread profiling and...
August 29, 2019... Community groups Make the Road New York, African Services Committee, Asian-American Federation, Catholics Charities Community Services and Catholic Legal Immigration Network are bringing the...
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