The Center for Constitutional Rights works with communities under threat to fight for justice and liberation through litigation, advocacy, and strategic communications. Since 1966, the Center for...
Updated: November 16, 2021
November 18, 2021, Washington D.C. ‒ Family members of people disappeared and executed by police and paramilitary units in Kenya say the U.S. government is funding and fueling these abuses, and are...
November 19, 2021On November 20, 2021, closing the weeklong observation of Trans Awareness Week, the world will honor the lives and humanity of all trans, non-binary, and gender non-conforming (TNBGNC) people. This...
November 19, 2021 ‒ In response to the acquittal of Kyle Rittenhouse, who last year shot and killed two people, Anthony Huber and Joseph Rosenbaum, and injured a third, Gaige Grosskreutz, during...
November 24, 2021 – In response to the conviction of the three men who murdered Ahmaud Arbery, the Center for Constitutional Rights issued the following statement: We hope the conviction of Ahmaud...
December 1, 2021...BLACK AND MISSING includes wrenching testimony from the families and loved ones of missing women, from activists and volunteers with their own stories of loss to law officers and historians with...
December 1, 2021...Each episode features heartbreaking testimony from the relatives and loved ones of missing women, as well as activists and volunteers who’ve experienced loss themselves, along with law enforcement...
December 2, 2021...Cases of missing Black people remain unresolved four times longer than those of white people. The recent disappearance of white travel vlogger, Gabby Petito, highlighted the dramatic differences...
December 1, 2021... Natalie Wilson explains that Black children are disproportionately labeled runaways by law enforcement, and this label is important because amber alerts are not sent out for runaways. Among the...
December 1, 2021...Missing Black people, even children, are disproportionately considered runaways, which means vital time is lost in their search. Runaway children don’t receive an Amber Alert, for instance. In an...
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