About 800,000 young people in the United States are now in legal limbo. President Donald Trump has scrapped an immigration programme introduced by his predecessor, Barack Obama , known as DACA - or...
Updated: September 8, 2017
November 10, 2017Djamel Ameziane wants his dignity back. The 50-year-old former prisoner says that's why he filed a multi-million-dollar lawsuit against the Canadian government, alleging it was complicit in his...
In the latest pushback against President Trump’s attack on immigrants rights, a federal judge in California has temporarily halted Trump’s asylum ban, which attempted to deny asylum to anyone...
Updated: November 20, 2018
On this bonus episode of The Activist Files , CCR Communications Director Chandra Hayslett talks to Senior Staff Attorney Pardiss Kebriaei about Pardiss’s visit to the National Memorial for Peace and...
Updated: March 7, 2023
April 18, 2019...The judges concluded that the lack of cooperation in any investigation by the U.S. and others meant that there was a low prospect of obtaining any convictions and it was not in the interests of...
Reparations are urgent and possible . Join us for an interactive and immersive evening with scholars, activists and advocates on our collective obligation and capacity to achieve historical...
Updated: September 30, 2019
September 26, 2019...The Trump administration’s proposed changes to the “public charge” rule, scheduled to take effect October 15, have been under legal attack since the change was announced in August. Among these...
On Episode 23 of “The Activist Files,” Staff Attorney Chinyere Ezie talks with Raquel Willis , activist, writer, Executive Editor of Out Magazine , and founder of Black Trans Circles , and Derecka...
Updated: February 20, 2020
May 22, 2020...Right now, the “impossible” is happening every day. In Detroit, with COVID-19 bursting the boundaries of our everyday catastrophes, we are seeing astounding — and overdue — changes in police and...
June 5, 2020... In court filings last week, attorneys from the Center for Constitutional Rights , the Legal Aid Society, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Inc. and the law firm of Beldock Levine...
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