May 15, 2024...The Banner twins are the founders of The Descendants Project, a nonprofit that fights for historic and cultural preservation for descendants of enslaved people. It was through their nonprofit that...
Nov 13, 2025 – The Center for Constitutional Rights welcomes four new members to our board of trustees , who bring with them outstanding records of accomplishment in philanthropy, activism, and legal...
Makes Strong Recommendations to U.S., Including Reparations Washington, D.C. & New York City, May 28, 2020 — Almost two decades after Algerian citizen Djamel Ameziane was detained and sent to...
Gullah Geechee Residents on South Carolina island requested an injunction against private landowners in effort preserve burial grounds and traditions; court denied landowners’ motion to dismiss the...
December 23, 2021The ruling sets up a legal showdown over an ordinance that sent a former parish president to prison for corruption yet remains on the books.
November 4, 2011, New York, NY – Today, amidst reports that the Israeli navy has intercepted the Freedom Waves Flotilla in international waters and boarded two boats attempting to deliver...
September 13, 2012, New York - Since the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and SNAP (Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests) filed a formal request for an investigation one year ago to the...
Hundreds of thousands of people are living and sleeping on the ground in Port au Prince. Many have no homes, their homes destroyed by the earthquake. I am sleeping on the ground as well--surrounded...
Updated: January 29, 2010
CCR, along with Palestine Solidarity Legal Support, sent a letter to John Jay College President Jeremy Travis on October 23, 2014, urging the College to stop censoring Students for Justice in...
Updated: October 24, 2014
August 3, 2018, North Dakota – Today, a federal judge blocked Energy Transfer Partners (ETP), the corporation behind the Dakota Access Pipeline, from continuing a lawsuit against Earth First!. ETP...
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