...In 2016, two civil rights groups—the Color of Change and the Center for Constitutional Rights—along with the Kramer Law Center, filed a Freedom of Information Act request for documents concerning...
...Boyle said Bell skipped out on the event at the Center for Constitutional Rights near NYU because of attacks in the media. “The fact is that Mr. Bell has taken responsibility for his actions, has...
...Racial justice groups are suing the Department of Homeland Security to get access to something called the “Race Paper” that may provide clues to the surveillance of black activists. Why do we have...
...Racial justice groups are suing the Department of Homeland Security to get access to something called the “Race Paper” that may provide clues to the surveillance of black activists. Why do we have...
On March 19, several civil rights groups filed suit against the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to release the contents of the agency’s redacted memo referred to in government documents as the...
Herman Bell, a 70-year-old former Black Panther and political prisoner, was recently granted parole after being behind bars for 45 years and denied parole seven previous times. In response, interest...
We won the stop-and-frisk case in 2013, when a federal court ruled the New York City Police Department’s use of the practice was unconstitutional. But as the lawyers in the case, our work isn’t done...
CCR is proud to be co-sponsoring the 2018 BHRH Lawyers' Network Annual Human Rights in the U.S. Symposium/CLE. Please joins us at this year's program, Advancing Racial Justice...
May 15, New York – Today, a court-appointed facilitator, Ariel Belen, issued a report on community-generated reforms to New York City Police Department (NYPD) stop-and-frisk and trespass arrest...
CCR Senior Staff Attorney Omar Farah will argue that the government should release an unredacted copy of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) " Race Paper ," in our case, Color of Change v. DHS...
