Art by Oaklee Thiele, part of the Breaking Point Project. On July 26, 1990, the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) was signed into law after the tireless organizing of disability activists across...
Stop-and-frisk plaintiffs ask court to include community in monitorship program On Thursday, community organizations, attorneys behind the class-action lawsuits that challenged the New York City...
Biden’s first Guantánamo transfer The Biden administration has officially transferred Abdul Latif Nasser out of the infamous Guantánamo Bay prison. We are relieved that Mr. Nasser, who has been...
Victory! All charges dropped against pipeline protesters Sixteen pipeline protesters and a journalist who had been arrested and charged with felonies in 2018 celebrated a major victory for the First...
Now streaming! “The Activist Files” Podcast: Radical freedom through art and activism This month, we are excited to cross-promote our 40th episode with “The Artivists’ Room,” Donkeysaddle Projects ’...
ICYMI! Pride Is Protest: Celebrating a Legacy of Black Queer & Trans Resistance, Resilience, and Rebellion Pride Month month, a month that centers the radical legacy of Black and Brown queer and...
TODAY — Pride Is Protest: Celebrating a Legacy of Black Queer & Trans Resistance, Resilience, and Rebellion Join us today 12-12:45pm EST for part two of our Instagram Live series ( @ccrjustice...
The Black Freedom Struggle Continues This year, our 55th, and henceforth, the Center for Constitutional Rights will formally observe Juneteenth as a paid holiday for all staff. Long celebrated in...
Happy Pride Month! Stay tuned for programming later this month It’s Pride Month, a month that centers the radical legacy of Black and Brown queer and trans people who rose up against police brutality...
New York State Legislature introduces “Dignity Not Detention Act” to end ICE detention The New York State Senate and Assembly introduced the Dignity Not Detention Act Monday, a bill that would end...
Shifting power to the people beyond Biden’s first 100 days Today we are launching our latest federal policy agenda titled “Shifting Power to the People: A Rights-based Vision for Biden & the...
U.S. federal judge dismisses lawsuit filed by Jewish National Fund against Palestinian rights nonprofit A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit filed by the Jewish National Fund (JNF) and others against...
A series of attacks on cis/trans women and non-binary people, during this year’s Women’s History Month, have laid bare how prevalent and deadly misogyny and cisheteropatriarchy remain, particularly...
First Unitarian Church of Salt Lake City joins lawsuit against ICE The First Unitarian Church of Salt Lake City joined a lawsuit, brought by four sanctuary leaders and immigrant rights advocacy...
New York City cannot address the NYPD’s long history and continuation of unconstitutional and racially discriminatory policing practices without substantive engagement with the communities most...
18th anniversary of U.S. invasion of Iraq--we join Iraqi calls for redress and demand Biden end militarism On the 18th anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, we issued the following statement:...
[caption align="right"] March 13 marked the one-year commemoration of the killing of Breonna Taylor, a 26-year-old Black woman who, at the height of what we now know is the worst pandemic of our...
Biden drops Trump-era public charge rule appeal! [caption align="right"] [/caption] Immigrant families can now access life-saving health care, food, and housing assistance for which they are eligible...
This year, we are celebrating the 55th anniversary of the Center for Constitutional Rights. We selected March 11 to launch this celebration of our legal and advocacy social justice work because it's...
COVID filing! East Baton Rouge prison still failing medically vulnerable people On Friday, individuals incarcerated at East Baton Rouge Parish Prison urged a federal judge to reinstate a lawsuit...
