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Palestinians Suing President Biden For Failure To Prevent Genocide

Photos: YouTube Screenshots November 13, 2023, San Francisco – Monday, Palestinians asked a federal court to enjoin President Biden, Secretary of State Blinken, and ...

UN Human Rights Committee Calls For Moratorium On Life Without Parole In U.S.

Photos: YouTube Screenshots New York – Last Week, the United Nations Human Rights Committee issued its conclusions and recommendations based on a review of  ...

Lawsuit Filed Against U.S. Government For Abuse, Unlawful Deportation Of Cameroonian Asylum Seekers

Photos: YouTube Screenshots August 8, 2023, Washington, D.C. – Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights, the Center for Constitutional Rights and Texas A&M Law School ...

use to arrest St. Louis County residents for questioning without a warrant or any judicial oversight.

Court Questions Constitutionality of St Louis Police Use of “Wanteds”

Photos: November 2, 2022, St. Louis, MO – Tuesday, the federal Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit issued an important decision in a ...

the CERD committee’s call for reparations marks a turning point in the U.S. human rights movement

UN Report Presses U.S. On Slavery Reparations For First Time, Spotlights Environmental Racism

Photos: YouTube August 30, 2022, Geneva – For the first time, the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) is calling on ...

Biden withdrew troops from Afghanistan, his words accompanying the extrajudicial killing of al-Zawahiri were jarring, dissonant

CCR: Biden’s Extrajudicial Killing of al-Zawahiri Is “Not Justice”

Photos: YouTube August 2, 2022, New York – In response to the U.S. government’s extrajudicial killing of Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri, the Center ...

The ceremony was hosted by the Descendants Project, which is challenging an illegal, decades-old rezoning ordinance

Grijalva Joins Descendants Project At Land Blessing Honoring Enslaved Ancestors

Photos: Facebook June 19, 2022, St. John the Baptist Parish, Louisiana – Sunday, to commemorate Juneteenth, Representative Raul Grijalva (AZ), a national leader on ...

Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola.

Black Man Convicted By Mostly White ‘Non-Unanimous’ Jury Released From Prison After 31 Years

Photos: Twitter\ACLU St. Landry Parish, Louisiana – Rufus Henry, a Black man convicted of second-degree murder by a non-unanimous jury, has been released on ...

temporary restraining order yesterday  to prevent “ground-penetrating activities” on land likely containing ancestral graves.

Louisiana: Descendants Of Enslaved Ask Court To Stop Construction On Land Likely Containing Ancestral Graves

Photos: YouTube\HealthyGulf\Twitter St. John the Baptist Parish, Louisiana – An organization that advocates for descendants of enslaved people filed a motion requesting a temporary ...

NYPD is still engaged in racial profiling in how it conducts stops and frisks

NYPD’s Underreporting Of Stop-And-Frisk Continues Along With Severe Racial Disparities

Photo: ACLU\YouTube New York– In response to a report just filed by Mylan Denerstein, the court-appointed monitor in the landmark stop-and-frisk case Floyd v. ...