Community Asks Court for Temporary Restraining Order (St. James) Prominent African American authors, scholars and civil rights leaders sent a letter to Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards on Sunday...
June 15, 2020, New York – In response to today’s ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court in R.G. & G.R. Harris Funeral Homes v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and Aimee Stephens , the Center...
Releases from ICE detention in Louisiana! Nearly all of our medically vulnerable clients in ICE detention in six Louisiana facilities were released out of concerns for their lives and health amidst...
In this conversation, the last of a four-part series of blogs about the movement response to COVID-19 , Samah Mcgona Sisay and Center for Constitutional Rights Advocacy Associate maya finoh discuss...
This is the last in a four-part series of blogs about the movement response to COVID-19. It also appears as the latest episode of the Center for Constitutional Rights podcast, The Activist Files...
June 18, 2020, New York – In response to the Supreme Court’s DACA decision today, the Center for Constitutional Rights issued the following statement: The Supreme Court ruled today that the Trump...
Formosa Taking Emergency Appeal to Stop Prayer Event Community Members Previously Threatened With Arrest for Visiting Ancestors’ Graves June 18, 2020, Convent, Louisiana – Today, Judge Emile R. St...
On Wednesday, June 24th, join Stonewall legend Miss Major Griffin Gracy , author and activist Hope Giselle , co-founder of 8 to Abolition K Agbebiyi , and Oluchi Omeoga...
Juneteenth victory! Judge grants RISE St. James access to ancestral burial grounds for Juneteenth memorial services [caption align="right"] [/caption] Last week, Judge Emile R. St. Pierre of the 23rd...
On June 22, 2020, the Center for Constitutional Rights—along with a coalition of other civil rights organizations—released an open letter demanding that Colin Mattis and Urooj Rahman be released...
