Racial and 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

Marc Lamont Hill Was Arguing for the Rights of Humans, Not of States

The important demand that CNN rehire Hill has obscured much of the actual content of his speech.

Inequality at the Center of Chicago Charter School Strikes

Teachers won the first charter school strike in the U.S. by demanding everything from pay raises to sanctuary schools for students.

If Democrats Fracture, This Will Be the Fault Line

Should we treat the super rich as a distraction or a clear and present danger? No question more deeply divides the opposition to The Donald.

Marc Lamont Hill and the Legacy of Punishing Black Internationalists

Contemporary renewals of Black-Palestinian solidarity have faced aggressive attacks by the U.S. liberal establishment. CNN is just the latest example.

Is Bush’s Legacy So Different From Trump’s?

Some may mourn Bush’s more “respectable” presidency. but looking back, one sees the very race-baiting and cruelty.

Trump is Spending $210 Million So Troops Can Hang Out With Border Agents Tear-Gassing Children

Military veterans are speaking out against the border stunt, calling it a “profound betrayal of our military.”

What We Took Away From the 2018 Midterm Elections

Spending records, voter suppression, and high youth turnout mark the most expensive midterm elections of all time.

2018 Midterm Elections: A Ballot Initiative Breakdown

Voters in several states passed measures to protect and expand the rights of people across the country.

We Have Movement Work To Do

If more registered voters—more young people, more people of color, more poor people, more women, more immigrants and students and workers and activists—had voted, things might be just a bit better. That’s our real challenge.

Trump’s Only Election Strategy Was Racism

Republicans can only win by racial gerrymandering and voter suppression. And Trump can only win by using fear and racism.

Black Worker Initiative

Criminalization of Race and Poverty

Reports

Report: Agricultural Cooperatives

Michael Paarlberg | November 8, 2018

Opportunities and Challenges for African American Women in the South

Report: Pay, Professionalism, and Respect

Kimberly Freeman Brown, Marc Bayard | October 5, 2018

Black Domestic Workers Continue the Call for Standards in the Care Industry

Report: Students Under Siege

Ebony Slaughter-Johnson, Karen Dolan, Myacah Sampson | July 24, 2018

How the school-to-prison pipeline, poverty, and racism endanger our school children

Report: I Dream Detroit

Kimberly Freeman Brown, Marc Bayard | October 10, 2017

The Voice and Vision of Women of Color on Detroit's Future.

Report: Mothers at the Gate

Ebony Slaughter-Johnson, Karen Dolan, Nell Bernstein | May 4, 2016

A movement of family members is developing around the country that aims to challenge both the conditions in which their loved ones are held and the fact of mass incarceration itself.