December 6, 2018, St. Martinville, LA – Today, a Louisiana judge found that the Bayou Bridge Pipeline Company (BBP) trespassed on privately owned land when it constructed its oil pipeline in the...
December 14, 2018A Prada storefront in Soho removed a controversial display on Friday morning amid mounting backlash that the merchandise featured "racist and denigrating blackface imagery." The "Pradamalia" product...
December 14, 2018...The complaints arose after Chinyere Ezie, a staff attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights who works on LGBT and racial justice issues, wrote a now-viral post on Facebook about the...
December 14, 2018...Chinyere Ezie, a lawyer for the Center for Constitutional Rights, said the monkey-like figures appeared to use "blackface imagery" in a public Facebook post on Thursday. "Today after returning to...
December 14, 2018...The window display in question had small, monkey-like creatures with black bodies and large, inflated red lips that resemble depictions of blackface from the early 20th century. “Thanks @Prada for...
Alobahy v. Trump was a federal lawsuit on behalf of three Yemeni-Americans against President Trump, the State Department, and the Department of Homeland Security for the unlawful revocation of...
Updated: September 3, 2019
Hussain Saleh is a life-long Brooklynite and U.S. citizen with roots in the United States dating back multiple generations. His parents and siblings also reside in New York, forming a tight-knit...
Updated: April 10, 2019
Following in the footsteps of his grandfather and father, Ahmed Mohammed came to the United States from Yemen when he was just 19 years old. He graduated from Vaughn College with an Associate’s...
Updated: April 10, 2019
Mohammed Alobahy came to the United States at the age of 16. He has since received citizenship, graduated from college, and now works as a structural engineer. “I came to this country full of hopes...
Updated: April 10, 2019
Visa Approvals Unlawfully Rescinded, Wrongly Invoking Ban December 18, 2018, New York – Yesterday evening, a group of Yemeni-Americans filed a federal lawsuit over the State Department’s refusal to...
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