Center for Constitutional Rights

Federal Court Blocks Trump Asylum Ban from Being Applied to Thousands of Asylum Seekers

NNPA NewswireNovember 22, 2019

“Today’s order will protect the lives of asylum seekers who were forced to endure extreme hardship while waiting in dangerous border cities for months for their chance to seek asylum in the United States,” said Erika Pinheiro, AOL director of litigation and policy. “These asylum seekers have a deep commitment to following our laws in seeking protection, and we are relieved to see that their decision to follow our government’s instructions to wait in Mexico will not prejudice their chances for relief.”

National News

NAACP Joins Ferguson Activist in Demanding Answers in Alleged Hanging Death of Son

Sentinel News ServiceJanuary 3, 2019

The St. Louis County NAACP is joining the McKinnies family in the call for transparency and justice regarding the murder of Danye Jones. “There’s too many unanswered questions that we are demanding answers to,” said John Gaskin III, St. Louis County NAACP President. “We support Mrs. McKinnies call for justice and transparency in the death of her son.”

National News

Prada Rolls Out Sambo Style Figures and Black Twitter Rolls Over Prada

Lauren Victoria Burke, NNPA Newswire ContributorDecember 20, 2018

The viral social media backlash that followed prompted the company to pull all of the items worldwide as calls for a boycott slowly built during discussions on Twitter. Prada’s first statement in reaction to the criticism on Twitter didn’t help.

Local News

California to end unlimited isolation for most gang leaders

Don Thompson, Associated PressSeptember 3, 2015

California agreed Tuesday to end its unlimited isolation of imprisoned gang leaders, restricting a practice that once kept hundreds of inmates in notorious segregation units for a decade or longer.