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(NCBL): an association of lawyers, scholars, judges, legal workers, law students and legal activists. Our mission is to serve as the legal arm of the movement for Black Liberation, to protect human rights, to achieve self-determination of Africa and African Communities in the Diaspora and to work in coalition to assist in ending oppression of all peoples. NCBL is a bar association but its program concerns matters of critical concern to the broader Black community.
THE NATIONAL CONFERENCE of BLACK LAWYERS (NCBL) CONDEMNS THE FBI’S CONTINUED ATTACKS ON ACTIVIST ASSATA SHAKUR
The National Conference of Black Lawyers (NCBL) condemns the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s recent placement of activist Assata Shakur on its Most Wanted Terrorists list, and its increase of the reward for her capture to $2 million.Read More (PDF)
Dr. King and Sundiata Acoli: Both Victims of United States Political Repression
On the birthdays of Dr. King and political prisoner Sundiata Acoli, Conference of Black Lawyers calls for the release of all U.S. Political PrisonersRead More (PDF)
National Conference of Black Lawyers invoking the spirit of El Haj Malik Shabazz, calls for the release of all political prisoners in the United States
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In the Spirit of Harriet Tubman and Ida B. Wells, the National Conference of Black Lawyers Calls on the United States, the State and Federal governments, to Release All Political Prisoners
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The National Conference of Black Lawyers Remembering Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Continuing the Call for the Release of all Political Prisoners.
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The National Conference of Black Lawyers Calling forRelease of All Political Prisoners in the United States Paying Tribute El Hajj Malik Shabazz (Malcolm X)
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National Conference of Black Lawyers, in the Spirit of Medgar Evers and Walter Rodney, Continues to Call for Release of all Political Prisoners
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The Alumni Association of the City College of New York Honors NCBL's Former National Director, LENNOX S. HINDS
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NCBL 2012 44th ANNUAL CONFERENCE
Thursday, October 4 — Monday, October 8, 2012Memphis, Tennessee
Save the Date – Details to Follow
POLITICAL PRISONER REPORT
Submission to the United Nations Universal Periodic ReviewNinth Session of the Working Group on the UPR
Human Rights Council
22 November – 3 December 2010
POLITICAL REPRESSION – POLITICAL PRISONERS
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Black Lawyers Call on Obama Administration to Free All U.S. Political Prisoners
The National Conference of Black Lawyers (NCBL) urges the U.S. to apply international human rights standards to protect, and ensure the rights of political prisoners.Read More (PDF)
Challenging Mass Incarceration as a Human Rights Violation
The National Conference of Black Lawyers (NCBL) has unveiled a new campaign to challenge the mass incarceration of significant sectors of the Black Community. "Challenging Mass Incarceration" is a project that focuses on the contradictions of the criminal justice system that targets an entire racial group for potential detention and violates their fundamental human rights.Read More About the Project (PDF)
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
The National Conference of Black Lawyers (NCBL) is warning that a special March 201l meeting of the United Nations Human Rights Council may be the "last chance" for the United States to address the plight of numerous political prisoners who after decades, remain incarcerated because of their political beliefs and associations.Read More (PDF)
SCHOOL TO PRISON PIPELINE
The National Conference of Black Lawyers’ (NCBL) Michigan Chapter is responding to recently published findings by the American Civil Liberties Union that demonstrate consistent racially disproportionate suspensions and expulsions of black public school students across the state. There is also a demonstrated correlation between exclusion from school and dropout rates. Additionally there is a correlation between dropout rates and imprisonment.Read More About the Project (PDF)
MENTORSHIP PROGRAM
The National Conference of Black Lawyers (NCBL) will perpetuate and strengthen its history of fearless and vigorous advocacy by encouraging new lawyers, law students and community activists to join us in the fight against all forms of injustices and to do so within an environment of sharing experiences, wisdom, and strategies to ensure the outcome of the relationships will benefit all parties.Read More About the Project (PDF)
HUMAN RIGHTS WORK
During the last two decades, NCBL/CHI has been in the forefront in the effort to get justice in the Burge Torture Cases. Chicago police commander Jon Burge, and other officers under his command, tortured of over 100 African-American men into confessing to crimes that they did not commit. Several of these men still languish in Illinois prisons. In an effort to focus international attention on police torture in Chicago, in 2005, Stan Willis led a group of lawyers and community activists to present evidence of police torture before the Organization of American States’ Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. In 2006, NCBL/CHI organized the community based “Black People Against Police Torture “BPAPT” in an effort to involve the Black Community in this human rights struggle. In February 2008, Stan presented evidence of police torture before the United Nations Committee to Eliminate Racial Discrimination “CERD” in Geneva, Switzerland. Upon returning from Geneva, BPAPT held town-hall meetings toRead More About the Project (PDF)
OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE
The terror that is perpetrated against predominantly blacks and Latinos in the streets of New York by the police “force” should be checked at the steps of the courthouse, but it is not. We call it Judicial Obstruction of Justice because one should expect to find justice in the courtroom, but it is obstructed and further frustrated by judicial attitudes and actions.Read More About the Project (PDF)