CCR and Desis Rising Up and Moving (DRUM), joined by a number of national and New York-based organizations, sent a letter to New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo regarding the appointment of Raymond...
Updated: December 19, 2017
Impacted people behind bars share harrowing stories of coronavirus outbreaks, unsanitary conditions August 19, 2020, Baton Rouge , LA – Last night , several civil rights and racial justice...
December 2007The Justice Department, which in 2002 gave the C.I.A. legal approval for waterboarding and other tough interrogation methods, is reviewing whether agency officials broke the law by destroying...
I. Reporting Organizations The below submission is presented by five organizations across the United States (“U.S.”): Asian Americans Advancing Justice- Asian Law Caucus, [i] Center for...
Updated: January 15, 2019
December 16, 2015It has been two and a half years since Edward Snowden’s disclosures revealed the massive scope of our government’s bulk surveillance of global telecommunications. The first document to be published...
THEN: In the 1970s, there were only 3,000 women entering law school yearly and a mere 7,000 in practice. Women were discriminated against (legally), disparaged (without recourse), punished for being...
Updated: May 21, 2008
February 2014"As Black History Month comes to a close, a federal judge last week dismissed a major civil rights lawsuit that affects millions of African-Americans. I joined as a plaintiff on Hassan et al. vs...
Join Fordham students in court as they continue to fight for their right to have a Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) club on campus. The last of the four students who brought the case against...
Updated: May 7, 2019
By Al Baker Thursday, May 13, 2010 Blacks and Latinos were nine times as likely as whites to be stopped by the police in New York City in 2009, but, once stopped, were no more likely to be arrested...
April 17, 2018...“Coming here does not mean that you have escaped accountability for what you did at home,” says Stephens, a distinguished professor of law at Rutgers, and an attorney at the Center for...
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