Linda Burnham has been an activist, writer, and strategist, focused on women’s rights and racial justice, since the 1960s. She is co-editor and contributor to the 2022 book Power Concedes Nothing:...
April 4, 2014, Washington – A federal district court today dismissed a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the targeted killing of three American citizens by U.S. drones in Yemen in...
February 26, 2018The landmark, class action settlement in CCR’s case challenging long-term solitary confinement, Ashker v. Governor of California , brought widespread reform to the practice of solitary in California...
Ian Head is the Open Records Project Manager at the Center for Constitutional Rights, where he works on policing, racial justice, immigrants' rights, and prisoners’ rights issues. Ian has significant...
Remy Burton is a Bertha Justice Fellow at the Center for Constitutional Rights. He works on discriminatory policing, racial justice, and challenging mass incarceration. Prior to coming to the Center...
May 12, 2014, New York – In response to revelations in a Sunday New York Times article, “New York Police Recruit Muslims to Be Informers,” Muslim Advocates and the Center for...
On the eleventh episode of The Activist Files, host Ian Head talks with writer and educator Walidah Imarisha and musician and teaching artist Gabriel Teodros about the relationship between...
Updated: February 26, 2019
What is necessary to reimagine civil rights in America? Our Executive Director Vincent Warren and PolicyLink 's Founder in Residence Angela Glover Blackwell are in conversation about what equity...
Updated: July 14, 2020
Center for Constitutional Rights Deputy Legal Director Maria LaHood will join the panel of jurors issuing their verdict in the International People’s Tribunal on U.S. Imperialism: Sanctions,...
Updated: September 27, 2023
December 15, 2016, New York – Today, attorneys from Muslim Advocates and the Center for Constitutional Rights slammed extremist Representative Peter King for his call to nationalize the fully...
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