August 28, 2017Today, we—the Movement for Black Lives, Color of Change, the Women’s March, the Center for Constitutional Rights—and many other organizations and people of faith, will begin a 110-mile march from...
August 28, 2017, New York – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights released the following statement in response to the announcement by Attorney General Jeff Sessions that Trump will sign an...
August 28, 2017So Sheriff Joe got a pardon . Frankly, that shouldn’t shock anyone. Trump kicked off his campaign by tagging Mexicans as murderers and rapists and drove it home with a barrage of attacks against the...
August 30, 2017The racist ex-sheriff Joe Arpaio, recently pardoned by his friend Donald Trump, is a despicable human being. He has proudly called his outdoor “tent city” jails “concentration camps”, and his police...
At this daylong event held by LGBT Faith Leaders of African Descent , LGBTQ people of faith and allies will meet for panels, workshops, and discussions to address the ways in which Black LGBTQ...
Updated: August 31, 2017
CCR executive director Vincent Warren will be the keynote speaker at the ADC Gala Dinner and Jack Shaheen Memorial, taking place during the ADC Annual Convention . Admission to the gala is included...
Updated: September 21, 2017
September 1, 2017The events of Charlottesville on August 12, 2017, shocked many in the nation. We had not seen the brutality, racism, and anti-Semitism broadcast into our homes in such a graphic fashion. Nazis, Ku...
September 1, 2017The Wednesday leg of the March to Confront White Supremacy ended prematurely with the report of a gun threat in Madison. The Thursday march, an 18-mile trek from Madison to Culpeper—the longest...
Diala Shamas is a Senior Staff Attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights, where she works on challenging government and law enforcement abuses perpetrated under the guise of national security...
CCR Senior Staff Attorney Wells Dixon will participate on a panel, Habeas, PRBs, and Military Commissions: What legal redress would new captures sent to Guantanamo have? , at this year’s...
Updated: September 5, 2017
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