Lumumba Akinwole-Bandele is an organizer and educator based in central Brooklyn. He is the former National Strategies and Partnerships Director at The Movement for Black Lives. From 2011 to 2020, he...
October 30, 2019, New York – In response to news of the arrests of Reverend Gregory Manning and Sakura Kone at the Louisiana Association of Business and Industry on the final day of the two-week...
This settlement represents a monumental victory for prisoners and an important step toward our goal of ending solitary confinement in California, and across the country. California’s agreement to...
Updated: September 1, 2015
The Center for Constitutional Rights is excited to support the #FreeAshleyNow team and partners for a letter writing event for our client, Ashley Diamond, a Black trans woman and social justice...
Updated: May 19, 2021
January 19, 2024, New York – In response to Mayor Adams’ veto of the police transparency legislation the How Many Stops Act (HMSA), the Center for Constitutional Rights issued the following statement...
by Peter Weiss, Vice President for the Center for Constitutional Rights "Today, it is not merely justice itself, but the idea of justice that is under attack.” The words are those of...
Updated: January 6, 2012
On Episode 54 of the Activist Files, Bertha Justice Fellow Zee Scout speaks with Ashley Diamond , a civil rights activist, who made a pivotal choice on the eve of her trial in January against the...
Updated: April 27, 2023
The demand for human rights and social justice lawyering will not, alas, retreat any time soon, and so we are dedicated to helping ensure that there is an ample supply of well-trained movement...
Updated: December 11, 2024
July 19, 2017The criminalization of political speech and activism against Israel has become one of the gravest threats to free speech in the west. In France, activists have been arrested and prosecuted for...
July 21, 2017As reported Wednesday in numerous outlets , a group of 43 Democratic and Republican U.S. senators have teamed up to introduce a bill, drafted with the help of the American Israel Public Affairs...
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