April 3, 2018Herman 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...
April 10, 2018We 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...
Updated: May 7, 2018
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...
Updated: May 16, 2018
May 8, 2018...Manny Jones, the brother of slain Police Officer Waverly Jones, decried Bell’s release by saying, “He should come home when my brother comes home.” But the officer’s son, Waverly Jones, Jr.,...
Join the staff at the Center for Constitutional Rights from 6-9 p.m., June 21, 2018 as we celebrate our new podcast, The Activist Files and its official launch on iTunes! The Activist Files features...
Updated: September 7, 2018
CCR is proud to be a presenting partner of Who We Are: A Chronicle of Racism in America. On Juneteenth, CCR Executive Director Vince Warren will provide a welcome address for Jeffery Robinson’s...
Updated: May 30, 2018
June 1, 2018... A heavily redacted version of the internal document was released but left key questions unanswered. The NAACP, Free Press, Color Of Change, the Brennan Center For Justice, American Civil...
May 31, 2018...A heavily redacted version of the internal document was released but left key questions unanswered. The NAACP, Free Press, Color Of Change, the Brennan Center For Justice, American Civil Liberties...
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