November 13, 2015I have settled my lawsuit with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). This declaration of fact supposedly ends a story with the tidiness to which storytelling in a linear society...
CCR Advocacy Program Manager Nahal Zamani will join St. Louis civil rights activist Brittany Packnett and Steve Silverman, founder of Flex Your Rights, for a panel discussion on the future of...
Updated: November 30, 2015
At this daylong event held by LGBT Faith Leaders of African Descent , LGBTQ people of faith and allies will meet for panels, workshops, and discussions to address the ways in which Black LGBTQ...
Updated: August 31, 2017
December 7, 2017...“In truth, the courts have in the war on terror addressed a number of cases affecting Muslims — like in the national security, Guantánamo [Bay detention camp] context — but to the extent they’ve...
December 23, 2018President Donald Trump is continuing his assault on basic humanitarian protections at the U.S.-Mexico border. In recent days, the president has sent thousands of troops to the border to string miles...
April 17, 2020... I moved to the U.S. from Nigeria eight years ago. I’ve been here in ICE detention for two years because I pled to charges of conspiracy to commit fraud and mail fraud, not knowing what the...
April 12, 2022Welcome the first Black woman on the Supreme Court in its 232-year history
November 14, 2018...The company was in the process of trying to use the controversial doctrine of eminent domain to “expropriate” the land, which allows the government to seize land for the public good. But according...
Please join us for a evening with some of New York’s leading Supreme Court experts at the close of this historic term. The panel will discuss this Term’s biggest cases, the impact of...
Updated: June 30, 2010
May 19, 2008, New York, NY – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) requested hearings on a new federal database that would require the collection of millions of new DNA samples and keep...
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