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...
The 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...
Those who signed the letter included the Rev. Al Sharpton (president of the National Action Network and host of “Politics Nation” on MSNBC), Sherrilyn Ifill (president of the NAACP Legal Defense and...
...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...
...“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...
... 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...
... Advocates also are petitioning for the release of 16 medically vulnerable people being held in six Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facilities in Louisiana, citing “their severe risk...
...The legislation —formally known as H.R. 2214, the National Origin-Based Antidiscrimination for Nonimmigrants Act—passed largely along party lines in a 233-183 vote and takes direct aim at Trump's...
...The Center for Constitutional Rights and the Southern Poverty Law Center, which filed the lawsuit on Diamond’s behalf, applauded the Justice Department filing. “In essence, the DOJ confirms that...
...A positive outcome of the litigation will end up benefiting the lives of all parish residents, according to the Center for Constitutional Rights, which is among the groups representing plaintiffs...
