June 15, 2016Today in Albany a Civil Service Commission is meeting to consider a cadet program aimed at increasing racial and gender diversity in the New York City Fire Department. The proposed program grew out...
June 5, 2024, New York – In response to President Biden’s executive order to shut down the border, the Center for Constitutional Rights released the following statement: Lagging in the polls,...
Dorothee Benz is the Communications Director of the Center for Constitutional Rights. She came to CCR with more than two decades experience as an editor, journalist, web manager, and communications...
OVERPOLICED AND UNDERPROTECTED: Women, Race, and Criminalization Engaging scholars from various disciplines, as well as practitioners and community activists, to interrogate how criminalization of...
Updated: January 10, 2012
CCR is proud to co-sponsor the inaugural celebration of Fred Korematsu Day of Civil Liberties and the Constitution in New York City. The program will honor Fred Korematsu as a civil liberties role...
Updated: January 18, 2018
July 21, 2016CCR Board Member Rosemary Corbett shares some thoughts on funding social change. ... These developments point to an underlying strategy that we both believe is necessary to change the economic system...
Amanda Alexander, Michigan, is the f ounding Executive Director of the Detroit Justice Center, a Senior Research Scholar at University of Michigan Law School , and a nationally recognized scholar of...
Join CCR Staff Attorney Sunita Patel for a discussion about the Floyd v. City of New York decision among many civil rights and racial justice court cases from around the country to discuss the future...
Updated: October 3, 2013
The Center for Constitutional Rights is excited to partner with BAM and Amazon Studios’ Reel Impact series on a special screening of The Feeling of Being Watched . Following the screening, Senior...
Updated: April 24, 2019
October 23, 2017This is CCR's weekly "Frontlines of Justice" news round-up, keeping you in the loop about what we've been up to and what's coming soon. Check it out every Monday, your one-stop-shop for CCR opinions...
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