October 24, 2016Amid reports on federal monitoring of protesters, two prominent civil-rights groups filed a lawsuit demanding that the FBI and Department of Homeland Security cough up records on their surveillance...
In response to the election of Donald Trump, the Center for Constitutional Rights issued the following statement: We send love and solidarity to all those who are hurting and afraid that Donald Trump...
November 29, 2016...Shane Kadidal, a senior managing attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights , said: “There are two baseline constitutional tenets that he manages to screw up in 140 characters.” Scalia was...
Join the National Coalition to Protect Civil Freedoms (NCPCF) for a screening of The Holy Land Five. This documentary, produced by Al-Jazeera, examines their case in scrupulous detail to reveal how...
Updated: December 21, 2016
December 9, 2016In June, surrounded by Jewish officials and leaders, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced: "If you boycott against Israel, New York will boycott you." To that end, he signed an executive order directing the...
December 22, 2016Late this fall, like others around the world, I began slowly gaining greater consciousness and awareness of the situation at Standing Rock. This growing awareness accelerated as millions “checked in...
January 5, 2017Many of us bid 2016 goodbye with a toast of “good riddance” – what with the deaths of cultural icons like David Bowie and Prince, the Pulse massacre, the horror of Aleppo, and of course the rise of...
The Confession is one man’s riveting account of his journey from Birmingham, England, to his imprisonment and survival at Guantánamo Bay in Cuba, and his journey back to his family. In the wake of...
Updated: January 27, 2017
January 18, 2017Fordham University has denied an application to form a Students for Justice in Palestine chapter on campus, citing as its rationale the group's political goals -- including its support for the...
"Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced." - James Baldwin In 1979, author James Baldwin wrote a 30-page letter outlining a biography of slain civil...
Updated: February 1, 2017
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