Join CCR Bertha Justice Fellow Omar Shakir to discuss "The Palestine Exception to Free Speech" alongside Radhika Sainath, Thomas DeAngelis, and Susie Abdelghafar. Speakers will discuss ...
Updated: November 17, 2015
CCR Legal Director Baher Azmy will give a talk entitled “Challenging State Power in the 9/11 Era: Guantanamo, Profiling and Human Rights” on Tuesday, December 8 th , at 4:15 p.m. as part of the 2015-...
Updated: December 3, 2015
February 23, 2016President Barack Obama on Tuesday outlined his long-awaited plan to close the Guantánamo Bay military detention center in Cuba, but rights groups immediately condemned the proposal as a series of “...
March 16, 2016Students from a wide coalition at the University of Minnesota recently launched a divestment campaign to urge the administration to pull its investments in four companies that profit from Israel’s...
The Center for Race and Ethnicity at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, will host an all-day conference examining how city policies and infrastructure work to promote or undermine health...
Updated: April 13, 2016
April 20, 2016Civil rights attorneys knew that Public Act 436, Michigan’s current emergency manager law , was likely illegal and unconstitutional way back when it was first enacted, in December 2012. This was well...
July 12, 2016... Conspiracy charges allow for scores of people with circumstantial connections to crimes to be sentenced for them, sometimes over something as trivial as giving a ride to someone, or lending a...
August 18, 2016After years of documented human rights abuses by the private prison industry, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) is finally ending its use of privately-run, for-profit prisons, the Washington Post...
CCR Executive Director Vince Warren will give the keynote address at the upcoming conference, From Classroom to the Community: Teaching and Advancing Social Justice 2016 Society of American Law...
Updated: September 15, 2016
CCR is grateful for the important work and solidarity of Jews for Racial and Economic Justice (JFREJ), and we are honored to join in their 2016 Rabbi Marshall T. Meyer Risk Taker Awards ceremony. CCR...
Updated: November 21, 2016
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