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The Press Center is a one-stop shop for NCRCR's partner organizations' press releases and media contacts. It serves as a resource for journalists' civil rights needs, both substantively in terms of finding content and as a reliable resource to connect with civil rights experts.


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General civil rights

Saddled with Debt, Indigent Defendants Face New Paths Back to Prison

  • By: Brennan Center for Justice
  • 10/04/2010
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Statement by Wade Henderson on Stalled Judicial Nominations and the Senate Recess

  • By: Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights
  • 10/01/2010
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U.N. Report Highlights Need For U.S. Civil And Human Rights Commission

ACLU Asks Kentucky Zoning Board To Reverse Improper Permit Denial For Muslim Prayer Space

MALDEF'S President and General Counsel Responds to Senate Vote on DREAM Act

Lambda Legal and HIV-Positive Retiree Settle Lawsuit Against North Little Rock Assisted Living Facility

VA eases rules allowing Vietnam vets to get treatment for Agent Orange exposure

For Katrina’s Fifth Anniversary, NCJW Calls for Restoration of Gulf Coast

  • By: National Council of Jewish Women
  • 08/27/2010
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Rights Group Urges Congress to Lift Unconstitutional Cuba Travel Ban

  • By: Center for Constitutional Rights
  • 06/30/2010
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PR Government Agrees to Delay Birth Certificate Law

Unequal Access to Citizenship for Muslims

Report Highlights How Labor Law Anomaly Prevents FedEx Express Ground Transportation Employees from Being Represented by a Union

  • By: The Leadership Conference of Civil and Human Rights
  • 06/15/2010
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Canadian RCMP Conducting Criminal Investigation of U.S. and Syrian Officials for Maher Arar's Rendition to Torture

  • By: Center for Constitutional Rights
  • 06/14/2010
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NAACP LDF Releases Report on Prison-Based Gerrymandering

  • By: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
  • 06/01/2010
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Canada Asserts Canadian Rendition Victim Maher Arar’s Case Not a Threat to Diplomatic Relations As U.S. Government Has Claimed

  • By: Center for Constitutional Rights
  • 05/24/2010
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Obama Administration Sides with Bush DOJ, Asks Supreme Court to Keep Canadian Rendition Victim Maher Arar from His Day in Court

  • By: Center for Constitutional Rights
  • 05/13/2010
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MALDEF Files Class Action Suit Against Ottawa County For Refusing Michigan Latino Couple the Fundamental Right to Marry

  • By: Mexican American Legal Defense & Education Fund
  • 05/11/2010
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SPLC Lawsuit Ends 'Shockingly Inhumane' Abuses of Children in Mississippi

  • By: Southern Poverty Law Center
  • 05/11/2010
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Decision That Backs Parenting Rights for Non-Biological Mother Lauded by Law School Clinic

  • By: Columbia Law School
  • 05/04/2010
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Local and National Groups Stand Firmly Against Offshore Drilling

Truck Driver Wins Gender Discrimination Case In Fourth Circuit

Groups Report to UN on US Human Rights Failure to Hold Corporations Accountable for Human Trafficking, Child Labor, Torture

  • By: Center for Constitutional Rights
  • 04/19/2010
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Sentenced to Stigma - Segregation of HIV-Positive Prisoners in Alabama and South Carolina

  • By: American Civil Liberties Union
  • 04/14/2010
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EPA Hears Call For Cleaner Florida Waters

U.S. Census Bureau Sued for Hiring Discrimination, According to Outten & Golden LLP and Co-Counsel

  • By: Center for Constitutional Rights
  • 04/13/2010
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AIDS Discrimination Victim Gets New Trial

  • By: Workplace Fairness
  • 03/25/2010
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NAACP Applauds US Secretary Duncan’s Speech Affirming Renewed Commitment to Quality Education and Civil Rights Protections

Congressional Delegation Lays Wreath at Civil Rights Memorial

  • By: Southern Poverty Law Center
  • 03/07/2010
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Grammy Award Winner Alicia Keys and Comedian Margaret Cho Join the National Campaign to Restore Civil Rights' 2010 Youth Contest

  • By: National Campaign to Restore Civil Rights
  • 03/02/2010
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Kucinich Challenges Potential Extrajudicial Killing of Americans

LEGENDARY HISTORIAN HOWARD ZINN DIES AT 87

Obama Administration Calls for Tougher Wall Street Rules

Former Detainees Boumediene and Deghayes Address President Obama on Guantánamo Anniversary

  • By: Center for Constitutional Rights
  • 01/11/2010
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NAACP CONTINUES ITS SUPPORT OF VAN JONES AND WHITE HOUSE GREEN JOBS INITIATIVE

  • By: NAACP Legal Defense Fund
  • 09/04/2009
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Trumped-Up Reasons For Termination Can Prove Retaliatory Discharge

  • By: Workplace Fairness
  • 08/21/2009
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MALDEF Congratulates President-Elect Obama and Commits to Working with Transition Team

FORMER CHICAGO POLICE COMMANDER JON BURGE ARRESTED ON CHARGES RELATING TO TORTURE OF OVER 100 AFRICAN AMERICANS

  • By: People's Law Office
  • 10/21/2008
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Study Conducted by Princeton University Expert for Rutgers-Newark Law School Shows That 10,000 NJ Voting Machines Are Very Vulnerable to Tampering

  • By: Rutgers-Newark Law School
  • 10/17/2008
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MALDEF Advocates For Latinos On Economic Recovery Legislation Final Bill Provides Minimal Protections for Latino Homeowners

APPEAL TO BE HEARD TODAY IN AUSTIN COURT OF APPEALS ON LANDMARK VOTING RIGHTS CASE

  • By: TEXAS CIVIL RIGHTS PROJECT
  • 10/08/2008
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New HHS Rule Changes List of Diseases Barring Travel to the US, but Does Not Remove HIV

  • By: Immigration Equality
  • 10/08/2008
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Tamez Honored by Texas Civil Rights Project

  • By: The Texas Civil Rights Project
  • 10/07/2008
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Tamez Honored by Texas Civil Rights Project

  • By: The Texas Civil Rights Project
  • 10/07/2008
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Justices Indicate They May Uphold Voter ID Rules

  • By: The New York Times
  • 01/10/2008
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C.I.A. Admits It Destroyed Tapes of Harsh Interrogations

  • By: The New York Times
  • 12/06/2007
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Justice Dept. Numbers Show Prison Trends

  • By: The New York Times
  • 12/06/2007
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Court: Prison Program Unconstitutional

Justices Express Skepticism in a Discrimination Case

  • By: The New York Times
  • 12/03/2007
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Civil Libertarians Warn of ‘Patriot Act Lite’

Court won't review San Diego home hunts

  • By: Seattle Post-Intelligencer
  • 11/26/2007
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Gitmo Policy Faces Another Supreme Court Test

Paperwork logjam threatens 2008 voting for immigrants

Supreme Court Agrees to Hear Gun Control Case

  • By: The New York Times
  • 11/20/2007
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Intel Official: Expect Less Privacy

California's unorthodox civil rights pioneer

  • By: The Los Angeles Times
  • 11/12/2007
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Mukasey Wins Vote in Senate, Despite Doubts

  • By: The New York Times
  • 11/09/2007
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Bush Turns Civil Rights Commission Into ‘Conservative Rights’ Commission

US top court takes up case of Muslim who alleges harassment in prisons, jails over faith

  • By: International Herald Tribune
  • 10/29/2007
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Finding Love Abroad, Then Support Online for Visa Quest

  • By: The Washington Post
  • 10/29/2007
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A Court Decision Elbows a Village in Favor of Religious Rights

  • By: The New York Times
  • 10/23/2007
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A Court Decision Elbows a Village in Favor of Religious Rights

  • By: The New York Times
  • 10/21/2007
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Deciphering the State of the Death Penalty

  • By: The New York Times
  • 10/19/2007
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Mukasey disavows torture memo

Lawmakers seek US action in Jena 6 case

  • By: The Associated Press
  • 10/16/2007
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Verdict triggers strong reactions

  • By: St. Petersburg Times
  • 10/14/2007
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Noose on Door at Columbia Prompts Campus Protest

  • By: The New York Times
  • 10/11/2007
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Sexual Stereotypes, Civil Rights and a Suit About Both

  • By: The New York Times
  • 10/10/2007
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Going to Court, but Not in Time to Live

  • By: The New York Times
  • 10/08/2007
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Executions On Hold Across US

More Doctors in Texas After Malpractice Caps

Texas High Schooler Kicked Out of School for Wearing John Edwards T-Shirt

Supreme Court to Hear Key Civil Rights Cases This Term

Guantanamo inmates' rights to get a fresh look

Fight Back Against Giving Kids’ Names to Military

Surgeon general nominee in limbo

  • By: The Courier-Journal
  • 09/29/2007
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House Cuts Transgender People from Hate Crimes Bill

Judge Rules Provisions in Patriot Act to Be Illegal

  • By: The New York Times
  • 09/27/2007
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Verizon Reverses Itself on Abortion Messages

High court to decide constitutionality of voter ID law

  • By: The Associated Press
  • 09/25/2007
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Justices to judge constitutionality of lethal injections

  • By: TheAssociated Press
  • 09/25/2007
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Small Louisiana town braces for one of biggest protests since '60s

  • By: The Edmonton Journal
  • 09/20/2007
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Republican Mayor of San Diego Abandons Homophobia, Embraces Same-Sex Marriage

Civil rights' ONLINE movement

Senate Fails on Habeas Corpus

  • By: The Associated Press
  • 09/19/2007
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Furor Ends in Deanship for Liberal Scholar

  • By: The New York Times
  • 09/18/2007
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Jury Consulted the Bible, but Death Sentence Stands

  • By: The New York Times
  • 09/11/2007
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Prisons Purging Books on Faith From Libraries

  • By: The New York Times
  • 09/10/2007
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Judge Voids F.B.I. Tool Granted by Patriot Act

  • By: The New York Times
  • 09/07/2007
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An Overlooked Problem with Title VII's Protections Against Discrimination: Procedural Obstacles to Invoking the Law

Suit Takes Aim at Rules on Immigrant Workers

  • By: The New York Times
  • 08/30/2007
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Bush's Bid for a Death Penalty Fast Track

  • By: The Independent UK
  • 08/28/2007
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Spying Program May Be Tested by Terror Case

  • By: The New York Times
  • 08/26/2007
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Judge Voids Ordinance on Illegal Immigrants

In 4th Decade On High Court, Stevens Stays True to Form

  • By: The Washington Post
  • 05/21/2007
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In South, Pardons for Segregation Era Offenses

Breakthrough Gay Advances in Past Three Weeks

The Feminine Face of Poverty

Student, 16, Finds Allies in His Fight Over Religion

  • By: The New York Times
  • 02/19/2007
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