Throughout the Black Freedom struggle, art has been a tool to both contest injustice and envision liberatory futures. In the Civil Rights era, this was the contribution of the Black Arts Movement, a...
Updated: February 18, 2021
February 18, 2021Throughout the Black Freedom struggle, art has been a tool to both contest injustice and envision liberatory futures. In the Civil Rights era, this was the contribution of the Black Arts Movement, a...
April 28, 2012, Washington, DC —Today, CODEPINK, the Center for Constitutional Rights, and Reprieve hosted the International Drone Summit in Washington, DC. The Summit consisted of multiple...
June 24, 2015On the night of June 27, 1969, police raided the Stonewall Inn, a seedy mob-controlled gay bar on Christopher Street in New York City. It was one of thousands of such raids that routinely took place...
May 6, 2025, Alvarado, TX – Today Hassan Ahmad of HMA Law Firm and Professor Nermeen Saba Arastu of CUNY School of Law appeared before Immigration Judge Margaret MacGregor for the initial immigration...
August 31, 2011, New York, NY – Today a federal judge rejected an effort by the City of New York to thwart a lawsuit filed by The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) that challenges the NYPD...
On Episode 20 of “The Activist Files,” Center for Constitutional Rights Staff Attorney Diala Shamas talks with Noura Erakat , author of the new book Justice for Some: Law and the Question of...
Updated: November 14, 2019
Over the last several years, we have seen federal, state, and local policies that encourage an aggressive coordination between law enforcement agencies and immigration officials. This has resulted in...
Updated: October 21, 2010
This article was originally posted on Huffington Post on November 30, 2010 "Information is the currency of democracy." -- Thomas Jefferson. Since 9-11, the US government, through Presidents...
Updated: November 30, 2010
April 7, 2017Trump signed yet another executive order last week, this one undermining the rights of workers. The March 27, 2017, order revoked three previous orders issued by President Obama related to federal...
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