The mission and vision of the Center for Law and Social Justice (CLSJ) is to provide quality advocacy, training, and expert services in a personal manner to New Yorkers of African descent and the disenfranchised. CLSJ seeks to accompany its mission by initiating advocacy projects and litigation, conducting research, and providing community education and trainings on behalf of and in collaboration with community organizations and groups in order to promote human, national, and international understanding. 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.