Black women, suffering from both the gender and racial wealth gap, are using their voting power to fight back.
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Racial & Gender Justice
Working to combat economic inequality, achieve climate justice, and build peace requires solutions designed to dismantle systemic racism and patriarchy. That’s why all of our projects seek to intersect and achieve justice across gender, diversity, and race, in addition to class.
Latest Work
These ‘Blue Lives Matter’ Bills Send the Wrong Message on Race and Violence
This is just the latest congressional favor for the Fraternal Order of the Police.
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Incarceration and Deportation Rip Mothers From Their Families
We need to address the criminalization of race and poverty. To do so, we need to correct our swaying moral compass.
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Five Charts that Show Why We Need to Tackle Gender Justice and Poverty Together
The Poor People’s Campaign’s first week of nonviolent moral direct actions will shine a spotlight on the problems of women in poverty.
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Women and the Racial Wealth Divide
Tackling the gender gap must go hand-in-hand with taking on racial economic inequality.
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8 Trailblazing Women Leading the Fight Against Inequality
In honor of International Women’s Day, we’re highlighting eight fearless women leading some of today’s biggest and most impactful social movements.
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America, Oprah is Not Your Savior
America has a history of looking to black women to save Americans from themselves — while not recognizing or respecting their efforts.
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Hollywood Won’t Destroy Sexism, But We Can
The solution isn’t for Oprah to run for president. It’s to listen to women everywhere.
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From ”Me Too” to “Not One More”
Imagine if the burden to combat sexual assault didn’t have to fall on any of these brave women — from celebrities to interns — pleading with the public to listen to stories they never wanted to have to recall.
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Mass Incarceration is a Women’s Issue, Too
The United States is one of the top incarcerators of women in the world, which breaks up families and endangers children.
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Reports
White Supremacy is the Preexisting Condition: Eight Solutions to Ensure Economic Recovery Reduces the Racial Wealth Divide
Eight Solutions to Ensure Economic Recovery Reduces the Racial Wealth Divide.
Black Immigrant Domestic Workers in the Time of COVID-19
Black immigrant domestic workers are at the epicenter of three converging storms—the pandemic, the resulting economic depression, and structural racism.
Report: The Battle For Another World
The Progressive Response to the New Right
