"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...
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...
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...
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...
...“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...
November 23, 2015 – On the anniversary of 12-year-old Tamir Rice’s killing by police in Cleveland, a coalition of law students, legal workers and attorneys known as Law for Black Lives issued the...
"[A]lso in attendance...was Diala Shamas, a senior staff attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights , a Manhattan-based nonprofit legal advocacy organization. Shamas outlined to participants...
Please join the Center for Constitutional Rights in Brooklyn all next week Monday, August 1 – Friday, August 5 , from 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM each day, for trial in United States and Vulcan Society...
The Center for Constitutional Rights filed a Amicus Brief urging the California court to investigate questions of the integrity of electronic voting in Riverside County and that claims by election...
In June 2019, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) and the Center for Constitutional Rights issued a letter to the New York State Legislature, calling on them to repeal Civil...
