On Wednesday, June 24th, we were joined by Stonewall legend Miss Major Griffin Gracy , author and activist Hope Giselle , co-founder of 8 to Abolition K Agbebiyi , and co-founder and core team member...
Updated: May 31, 2023
August 7, 2020...In 1976, Negro History Week expanded into Black History Month. Black August, which also came about in the 1970's, specifically honors "political prisoners, freedom fighters, and martyrs of the...
August 7, 2020...Black August is not a second Black History Month While Black History Month founded by Carter G. Woodson encourages Americans to recognize and study the often overlooked accomplishments of Black...
At the Center for Constitutional Rights, we believe in the transformative power of art and culture, and have long worked with artists, storytellers, and cultural institutions to not only reflect the...
Updated: August 26, 2021
Impacted people behind bars share harrowing stories of coronavirus outbreaks, unsanitary conditions August 19, 2020, Baton Rouge , LA – Last night , several civil rights and racial justice...
On Episode 29 of the Activist Files, communications assistant Alex Webster speaks with TRANScending Barriers executive director Zahara Green and Abolitionist Law Center executive director Robert "...
Updated: March 7, 2023
District Court Found CDCR Had Violated Settlement, but Appellate Panel Reversed August 31, 2020, San Francisco – Today, men who sued the state of California for imprisoning them in solitary...
September 16, 2020... Communities United for Police Reform (CPR) recently won the right to intervene in a lawsuit brought by police unions against the repeal of 50-a in New York (which had kept police disciplinary...
Center for Constitutional Rights Advocacy Program Manager Aliya Hussain will join a panel of advocates and organizers to weave together Japanese American incarceration with contemporary examples of...
Updated: September 18, 2020
September 18, 2020On September 14th, Dawn Wooten—a nurse working at a Georgia ICE detention center— blew the whistle on the conditions within the privately-operated Irwin County facility: many of the immigrants...
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