Last week , community members in San Jose, California spoke out at a forum on police body-cameras. Their number one concern: cameras being turned on or off “when police officers feel like it.” This...
What makes CCR’s work effective is that we don’t just focus on litigation; we think outside the courtroom “box.” From participating in cultural events, protests, and conferences to sharing fact...
" Embattled professor Steven Salaita has filed a lawsuit against the University of Illinois to force the campus to hire him and compensate him for lost income and damages to his reputation. ..." Read...
... Donate to the Official George Floyd Memorial Fund set up by his family and to organizations like Black Lives Matter , the NAACP , the Center for Constitutional Rights , Fair Fight , and Dream...
President Barack Obama's nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court, Merrick Garland, has been characterized as a moderate who, if confirmed, would nudge his divided colleagues slightly to the left because...
North Dakota State's Attorney Ladd Erickson has dropped criminal trespassing charges against Democracy Now!'s Amy Goodman -- and is instead seeking to charge her with participating in a riot,...
WASHINGTON (CN) – By a rare 4-2 vote Monday, the Supreme Court sidelined damages claims against high executive officers at the Justice Department over the inhumane treatment suffered by Muslim, South...
Gabriel Guzman has dark brown eyes, but it’s difficult to discern when you talk to him. That’s because Guzman, a former Illinois prison inmate, has a hard time maintaining eye contact, one of the...
Léopold met with Nadia Ben Youssef during the second Black and Palestinian Solidarity conference in Naarm (Melbourne) on Indigenous Wurundjeri land, organized by Gary Foley and Suzannah Henty in...
...The special prison units have become known as “Guantanamo North” for their historically high rates of Muslim prisoners — 70% when they opened, according to the Center for Constitutional Rights, a...
