December 5, 2023Board member and Jackson resident Makani Themba spoke at a convening for the United Nations Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism
August 4, 2016, Cincinnati – Today, civil rights attorneys urged the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit to reinstate claims that Michigan’s emergency manager law violates the Voting Rights...
November 30, 2023...Lower courts have struck down “metering” in the past, but the present case being argued before the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals could set an important future precedent as the Biden...
Under the supervision of the Director of Development and the Deputy Director of Development, the Senior Donor Relations Officer is responsible for managing a portfolio of donors who give $5,000-$99,...
Updated: December 20, 2023
May 15, 2025, Jackson, MS – The People's Advocacy Institute (PAI) and Mississippi Poor People's Campaign (MS-PPC), who were granted intervenor status in 2024 in a federal lawsuit brought by the U.S...
WASHINGTON, D.C. – In a landmark human rights case with significant implications for the separation of powers, the Supreme Court today heard a challenge brought by the Center for Constitutional...
April 9, 2012 — Pakistani lawyer Shahzad Akbar has been invited to speak at an International Drone Summit in Washington DC on April 28, but the U.S. government is failing to grant him a visa...
September 10, 2015George Ruiz, a seventy-two-year-old inmate in California, has spent the last thirty-one years in solitary confinement, most of it in Pelican Bay State Prison. He has been held in a windowless cell,...
December 9 marks the two-year anniversary of the release of the Executive Summary of the Senate Torture Report detailing some of the barbarity and brutality of the CIA’s post-9/11 interrogation and...
Updated: December 9, 2016
January 27, 2017, New York – Today, rights groups demanded government records concerning the controversial fiscal control board established under the Puerto Rico Oversight, Management, and Economic...
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