Congratulations, Justice Jackson April 12, 2022Welcome the first Black woman on the Supreme Court in its 232-year history
Brooklyn Shooting Highlights the Need for AbolitionApril 14, 2022By Lexi WebsterMore police is precisely the wrong response
News: Lawsuit Challenging “Death by Incarceration” goes before Pennsylvania Supreme CourtApril 18, 2022The first case of its kind in the country, it seeks an end to the ban on parole for felony murder
Afghan Groups Challenge Effort to Seize Billions from the Central Bank of AfghanistanApril 25, 2022Money belongs to the people of Afghanistan, groups say in legal brief
Ruling: Residents of Historic Black Community in Louisiana Will Get Day in Court in Challenge to Rezoning OrdinanceMay 2, 2022The Descendants Project is trying to prevent construction of a massive grain terminal
News: Non-unanimous jury verdicts are a vestige of slavery and should be overturnedMay 11, 2022Jim Crow juries helped Louisiana reproduce a system of white domination following the Civil War
News: NYPD Continues to Underreport Use of Stop and FriskMay 16, 2022The monitor in our landmark stop-and-frisk case has issued another report
Descendants of enslaved people ask Louisiana court to stop “pre-construction” on land likely containing ancestral graves May 24, 2022A Denver-based company is seeking to build a massive grain terminal in Wallace, a historic Black community in "Cancer Allley"
Join us for "Unjust By Design: Criminal Legal System"June 1, 2022We are proud to present the next installment in By Design, our Spring/Summer 2022 Freedom Flicks Film Series
Ready to Join Us in Washington on June 18th?June 7, 2022We are proud to invite you to join the Mass Poor People’s & Low-Wage Workers’ Assembly and Moral March