We all have a role in this movement #BlackLivesMatter Sparked by the killing of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Tony McDade, and others whose names we may never know, across the country and around the...
Releases from ICE detention in Louisiana! Nearly all of our medically vulnerable clients in ICE detention in six Louisiana facilities were released out of concerns for their lives and health amidst...
This is the last in a four-part series of blogs about the movement response to COVID-19. It also appears as the latest episode of the Center for Constitutional Rights podcast, The Activist Files...
Juneteenth victory! Judge grants RISE St. James access to ancestral burial grounds for Juneteenth memorial services Last week, Judge Emile R. St. Pierre of the 23rd Judicial District Court upheld a...
This is the third in a series of blogs about the movement response to COVID-19. In this age of the novel coronavirus, millions of people in the United States—those who are not considered essential...
Charges against Urooj Rahman and Colin Mattis should be dropped. Last Monday, the Center for Constitutional Rights — along with a coalition of other civil rights organizations — released an open...
STARTING SOON! What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? Today from 11 a.m. EDT to 12 p.m. EDT, join the Center for Constitutional Rights, The Dream Unfinished , and Lincoln Center for a live...
We're suing to end cruel and unconstitutional death-by-incarceration sentences People in Pennsylvania serving death-by-incarceration sentences (commonly known as “life without parole”) filed a...
On July 8th, the Abolitionist Law Center, Amistad Law Project, and the Center for Constitutional Rights filed a lawsuit in Pennsylvania, seeking to abolish the states’s cruel mandatory Life Without...
Victory! Appeals court rules Bayou Bridge Pipeline company 'trampled' landowners' rights On Thursday, an appeals court for the State of Louisiana ruled that the Bayou Bridge Pipeline Company (BBP)...
