Center for Law and Social Justice at Medgar Evers College

The mission and vision of CLSJ is to provide quality advocacy, training, and expert services in a personal manner to New Yorkers of African descent and the disenfranchised. CLSJ sponsors advocacy projects and litigation in areas as diverse as housing and employment discrimination, education equity, police reform and racial violence, voting rights, census, redistricting and United States human rights violations. Because of its unique combination of research, public policy advocacy and litigation from a community-based perspective, CLSJ is a focal point for progressive activity.

​CLSJ’s vision is to be a resource for the liberation of people of African descent in order to achieve a world that will equally distribute society’s and nature’s wealth to everyone, such that they are able to realize their highest creative potential and enjoy their cultural, economic, political, and social rights.