January 16, 2018, Baton Rouge, LA – Today, Louisiana groups represented by the New York-based Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) filed a lawsuit against Bayou Bridge Pipeline LLC to make its...
Join CCR at Netroots Nation 2018 for this short film-series and talk-back, which will take place in Room 223 . The #NoBayouBridge short-film series and panel discussion will detail how a fight to...
Updated: July 30, 2018
July 2012The ACLU and the Center for Constitutional Rights this morning filed a lawsuit in federal court against several Obama officials, including Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and CIA Director David...
Cancer Alley residents are challenging St. James Parish Council’s decades-old practice of placing plants in majority-Black districts April 9, 2025, New Orleans – Today, the Fifth Circuit Court of...
February 14, 2014, New York – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) issued the following statement in response to reports that Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has decided to sign...
Join CCR and pack the court on Thursday, May 1, 2014 for oral arguments in Turkmen v. Ashcroft , CCR’s class action civil rights lawsuit filed on behalf of Muslim, South Asian, and Arab non-...
Updated: April 17, 2014
May 15, 2024...The Banner twins are the founders of The Descendants Project, a nonprofit that fights for historic and cultural preservation for descendants of enslaved people. It was through their nonprofit that...
Since 2011, there has been a marked proliferation of state laws targeting undercover investigations and whistleblowing in animal agriculture. These ag-gag laws vary, but all include one or more of...
Updated: December 3, 2019
Please join CCR from 6:30 pm - 9:00pm on March 12th to watch a short-film series that takes an in depth look at the Louisiana Water Protectors on the front lines of resisting Energy Transfer Partners...
Updated: February 28, 2018
On the 17th episode of “The Activist Files,” Communications Associate Josh Manson talks with Janice Dickerson and her attorney, Christopher Meeks, about the struggle to protect a historically Black...
Updated: March 7, 2023
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