December 2, 2021...Cases of missing Black people remain unresolved four times longer than those of white people. The recent disappearance of white travel vlogger, Gabby Petito, highlighted the dramatic differences...
August 24, 2023...Samah Sisay, staff attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights, accused the department’s Neighborhood Safety Teams—a uniformed unit deployed in high-risk areas to combat gun violence—of...
Join CCR Staff Attorney Omar Farah at the Patois Film Festival in New Orleans! "Waiting for Fahd" will be screened as a part of the Uniting Struggles Program, alongside "Queering...
Updated: March 18, 2015
THE IMPERIAL PRESIDENCY: CITIZENS AND THE GROWTH OF EXECUTIVE POWER. The Bush/Cheney administration has thoroughly reshaped the presidency. Unprecedented exercise of executive authority and secrecy...
Updated: November 10, 2008
June 9, 2015In the summer of 2014, beginning on July 8, Israel launched a 50 day military operation against Gaza, dubbed Operation Protective Edge. People around the world were horrified by the images of carnage...
November 13, 2015Th e University of Illinois has approved a six-figure settlement for Steven Salaita to end two lawsuits he filed against the university for rescinding a tenured job offer due to his intemperate and...
October 3, 2016When a federal judge declared the New York police’s version of stop-and-frisk unconstitutional in 2013, Mayor Michael Bloomberg and other fans of the practice predicted the murder rate would soar...
CCR Executive Director joins Joy Reid and her expert panel to discuss the implications of Donald Trump shaping policy surrounding policing, civil rights oversight, and more. Trouble seeing the video...
Updated: November 18, 2016
August 21, 2023...A decade later, while we commemorate this legal and organizing breakthrough, we’re also taking stock of its impact, and the stark truth is stops are actually on the rise again. The latest Monitor’...
The Center for Constitutional Rights is a proud sponsor of the Muslims for Just Futures conference, Convergence for Just Futures :Building Power through Community...
Updated: September 12, 2024
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