Cancer Alley residents are challenging St. James Parish Council’s decades-old practice of placing plants in majority-Black districts April 9, 2025, New Orleans – Today, the Fifth Circuit Court of...
Samah Sisay , Center for Constitutional Rights Staff Attorney, will be speaking on a panel on Black identity, exploring perspectives from Black immigrants and Black Americans. This event is part of...
[ En Español Abajo] April 16, 2025, Columbus, GA – The American Immigration Council, National Immigration Project, and the Center for Constitutional Rights today filed an amended habeas corpus...
St. James Parish Council broke own rules to okay expansion into protected wetlands, court finds in Louisiana environmental justice case May 15, 2025, Gretna, LA – Yesterday, a five-judge panel of the...
May 15, 2025, Jackson, MS – The People's Advocacy Institute (PAI) and Mississippi Poor People's Campaign (MS-PPC), who were granted intervenor status in 2024 in a federal lawsuit brought by the U.S...
Stop-and-frisk attorneys respond to new Monitor’s report on Community Response Teams June 3, 2025, New York – The court-appointed monitor in the landmark stop-and-frisk case against the NYPD, Floyd v...
These efforts demonstrate the community’s commitment to preserving its culture, said Emily Early, associate director of the Southern Regional Office of the Center for Constitutional Rights...“While...
Sadé S. Evans (she/her) is a Legal Worker at the Center for Constitutional Rights, where she works on issues related to racial, electoral, and environmental justice. She supports our attorneys while...
Ahead of the sixth anniversary of Allan’s murder, the Feliz family and electeds rally to demand Lt. Rivera be fired New York, NY – Today, the family of Allan Feliz announced a landmark lawsuit...
This week, the U.S. government was meant to be reviewed at the United Nations as part of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) process, a peer-to-peer assessment of every country’s human rights record...
