Organized by the Arab American Institute , this panel will examine several policies and programs that have targeted the Arab American and American Muslim communities in the current climate of...
Updated: July 22, 2016
The Confession is one man’s riveting account of his journey from Birmingham, England, to his imprisonment and survival at Guantánamo Bay in Cuba, and his journey back to his family. In the wake of...
Updated: January 27, 2017
"Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced." - James Baldwin In 1979, author James Baldwin wrote a 30-page letter outlining a biography of slain civil...
Updated: February 1, 2017
CCR Senior Staff Attorney Rachel Meeropol will be speaking at the 2017 American Constitution Society National Convention on a plenary panel, National Security and Civil Liberties Under the Trump...
Updated: May 22, 2017
June 1, 2017...Fear that authorities use digital tools to aggressively monitor political demonstrations began before Trump's election. Two activist groups, the Color of Change and the Center for Constitutional...
On June 16, 2017, the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and its 23 member organizations in the Americas collaborated on an open letter to the Organization of American States requesting...
Updated: June 21, 2017
With the world watching with much interest the FBI's investigation into possible collusion between the Trump presidential campaign and Russia, other issues dogging this administration have somewhat...
Updated: November 3, 2017
This panel explores the different ways criminalization fractures communities and separates people from the place(s) they call home. Bringing together activists from New York City to Palestine "The...
Updated: November 21, 2017
December 1, 2017FBI Director Christopher A. Wray failed to explain why the agency he leads changed the name of a domestic terrorism designation from “Black Separatist Extremists” to “Black Identity Extremist,”...
December 1, 2017Sixteen years after Sept. 11, 2001, and 17 years after two suicide bombers killed 17 sailors aboard the USS Cole , the death penalty trials of the Guantanamo detainees accused of planning the attacks...
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