This week, the Center for Constitutional Rights had the honor of joining two dozen human rights organizations in support of Haitians seeking accountability from the United Nations for its role in...
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) reports 2.2 million people are in our nation's jails and prisons and another 4.5 million people are on probation or parole in the U.S., totaling 6.8 million...
As the evening sky darkens, the sergeant and rookie check on a crowd gathered at a makeshift memorial of cards, candles, and flowers near an apartment building’s entrance, the site of a gang shooting...
The NYPD has a hard time hiring black men to become police officers because too many have criminal records, the city’s top cop said in an interview. NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton said it’s a...
Isaiah Pickens, Jamira Burley, Purvi Shah, Marc Steiner and Jamelle Bouie join to discuss the reaction to the video this week that showed an altercation between police and teens in McKinney, Texas.
The Charleston massacre holds up a mirror to America and what we see, though horrific and devastating, is nothing new. What stares back at us is our long history of racism and violence passed down to...
Dorian Warren talks with Vince Warren, Director of the Center for Constitutional Rights and Obery Hendricks, Professor at Union Theological Seminary about why the South Carolina Shooting should be...
When Laverne I. and her husband were stopped by the NYPD while simply walking down the street, she asked one of the officers for his badge number as they began to search her husband’s pockets. The...
July 8, 2015, New York – In response to Governor Andrew Cuomo’s signing, today, of an executive order appointing a special prosecutor to investigate killings by police of unarmed civilians and with...
July 9, 2015, New York – Today, the court-appointed monitor overseeing reforms to the New York City Police Department’s unconstitutional stop-and-frisk practices filed his first interim report on the...
