October 12, 2015Answer: When the child is Black and the shooter is a police officer. Welcome to America, where #BlackLivesMatter is a trending hashtag, but police impunity is a lethal reality of Black life. There’s...
September 11, 2015Stanley Nelson’s latest film, The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution , is an important lesson. Not strictly a history lesson, charting the dramatic rise and fall of one of the most vibrant...
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August 3, 2015Over 1,000 people from across the country came together on July 31 and August 1 in Harlem, New York, to help vision and build the legal arm of the burgeoning Black Lives Matter movement. The #...
July 10, 2015Stephanie Llanes, and John Cusick NY State Capitol. Mothers of New Yorkers killed by police. (Photo by Nahal Zamani) They went to Albany seeking a measure of justice, a guarantee that other families...
June 22, 2015The Charleston massacre holds up a mirror to America and what we see, though horrific and devastating, is nothing new. What stares back at us is our long history of racism and violence passed down to...
June 30, 2015When Laverne I. and her husband were stopped by the NYPD while simply walking down the street, she asked one of the officers for his badge number as they began to search her husband’s pockets. The...
CCR was born out of dissent. Growing directly out of Civil Rights struggles in the South, we have consistently worked to protect the right to dissent, not simply as an individual liberty but as the...
Updated: August 16, 2017
CCR fights tirelessly to obtain justice for those who have fallen victim to domestic government abuses perpetuated in the name of the so-called “war on terror.” Our challenges to discriminatory...
Updated: September 26, 2017
Since our founding in 1966, the Center has pioneered legal strategies to ensure that courtroom doors remain open to those with the least access to justice. In few instances is this more difficult...
Updated: September 26, 2017
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