Earlier this week the Center for American Progress and Maria Shriver released The Shriver Report: A Woman’s Nation Pushes Back From the Brink. The report exposed the continued wage gap that exists between men and women in the United States. Closing the gap would have a monumental impact on the nation’s economy, cutting the poverty rate in half for working women and adding an estimated nearly half a trillion dollars to the national economy. To learn more about this topic, watch our award-winning film, A Call to Act, about crusader Lilly Ledbetter and her fight for equal pay for women. Lilly lost her case before the Supreme Court but she remained undeterred. Her determination eventually led to the passage of the landmark Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2007. The act, the first legislation signed into law by President Obama, makes it easier for employees to challenge pay discrimination in court.
Watch Our Latest Film, The Right to Remain Silent, online
The Right to Remain Silent: Miranda v. Arizona is streaming online at the Annenberg Classroom website. Click here to learn about Ernesto Miranda’s case and how it changed the way our nation views the Fifth Amendment’s right against self-incrimination.
Search and Seizure Wins a Davey Award
The International Academy of the Visual Arts and the Davey Awards has selected Search and Seizure: Mapp v. Ohio as a winner of a Silver Award in the Film and Video Education category. The team here at The Constitution Project is truly pleased to hear about this win as the Davey Awards does a great job at promoting small but extraordinarily creative firms.
Search and Seizure has been chosen for a Chris Statuette Award
The Constitution Project’s documentary, Search and Seizure: Mapp v. Ohio, has been honored with another award. The film has been awarded a Chris Award from the Columbus International Film+Video Festival, which is one of the oldest film festivals in North America. It is a film festival that prides itself for promoting education through film and video which makes it a perfect fit for The Constitution Project.
Search and Seizure wins a Best Shorts Award
We are proud to announce another win for Search and Seizure. The Constitution Project’s latest documentary has won an Award of Excellence in the category of Educational, Instructional, and How To shorts. For additional information on this competition please visit www.bestshorts.net.
