This year marks the 90th anniversary of our longtime ally and current partner , the Highlander Research and Education Center, the storied school that’s helped nurture the Black freedom struggle and...
Updated: March 7, 2023
Join Scholars for Social Justice on Thursday, December 14, from 2 - 3:30 p.m. for a virtual conversation between scholar-activists and movement-builders. As we continue to stand with the movement for...
Updated: December 12, 2023
June 2014The parties in the stop-and-frisk litigation have asked Southern District Judge Analisa Torres ( See Profile) to resolve motions to intervene by police unions who oppose a settlement between the...
*** Know Your Rights in the NYC Department of Homeless Services (DHS) shelter system *** Are you a transgender, non-binary, intersex, or gender non-conforming (TGNC) person who has faced...
Updated: March 20, 2023
Fact sheet on Ziglar v. Abbasi (formerly Turkmen v. Ashcroft), a case filed in April 2002 on behalf of a class of Muslim, South Asian, and Arab non-citizens swept up in connection with the 9/11...
Updated: September 8, 2021
Purna Raj Bajracharya currently lives in Katmandu, Nepal with his wife, sons, and daughters-in-law. Purna is a plaintiff in Ziglar v. Abbasi (formerly Turkmen v. Ashcroft), a lawsuit filed in 2002 on...
Updated: September 8, 2021
Warns Against Expansion of Anti-Terrorism Laws August 7, 2019, New York – Following the mass shootings in El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio, the Center for Constitutional Rights released the following...
March 21, 2011, New York – Last Friday, the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) issued a report finding that the New Orleans Police Department (NOPD) has engaged in “a pattern or...
August 2014It was Sunday evening and we were on Florissant Avenue in Ferguson, where community members gather in mourning and protest every day, a few blocks from where Michael Brown was killed. Their demands...
December 23, 2014, New York – In response to findings and recommendations released today by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) Senate Committee on Academic Freedom and Tenure...
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