“Race in the USA” is The New School’s second University course on post-election America, and is sponsored by the Provost’s Office and the 2017 Henry Cohen Lecture Series of The Milano School of...
Updated: November 28, 2017
In June 2012, Mayor Edwin Lee of San Francisco, California stated that he was considering implementing a "New York City-style" stop and frisk policy. On August 2, 2012, the Center for Constitutional...
Updated: January 7, 2014
From Detention Watch Network (DWN) and the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) Banking on Detention: Local Lockup Quotas and the Immigration Dragnet (2015) explores and exposes the depth of local...
Updated: May 24, 2019
July 5, 2016Originally publised on Medium.com . Whether you ride public transportation every day to and from work or drive your own car. Whether you go to a public school with security guards or an upscale...
Civil Rights Groups Press Federal Court to Reinstate Lawsuit March 5, 2021, Baton Rouge, LA – Today, individuals incarcerated at East Baton Rouge Parish Prison urged a federal judge to reinstate a...
May 28, 2020In the wake of a slew of incidents of anti-Black violence, it is more apparent than ever that especially during a pandemic our Black lives don’t matter. Just this week, George Floyd was killed after...
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...
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