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

In Mass Shootings, Motive Matters

In Mass Shootings, Motive Matters

If we omit the El Paso shooter’s motive, we risk erasing the victims — minimizing them to footnotes in the coverage of yet another mass shooting.

Report: the Detention Drain

Report: the Detention Drain

The Detention Drain: How Immigration Detention Hurts New Mexico's Economy Karla Molinar Arvizo Introduction: The criminalization of immigration through policies like President Trump’s “Zero Tolerance” policy have swelled the numbers of people in U.S. detention...

400 Years After Slavery, No More Band-Aids

400 Years After Slavery, No More Band-Aids

It’s time to heal the deep wounds of racism — not only to ensure equity for African Americans, but for our entire economy.

What It’s Like to Grow Up Hunted

What It’s Like to Grow Up Hunted

When I was just 10, I already knew what it was like to plan for a future without my parents.

Trump’s Public Charge Rule Is an Attack on Legal Immigrants

Trump’s Public Charge Rule Is an Attack on Legal Immigrants

After demonizing undocumented immigration, Trump’s new public charge rule targets legal immigrants on the basis of income and race.

Mass Shootings, Economic Inequality, and a Racist President

Mass Shootings, Economic Inequality, and a Racist President

Three mass shootings in one week, homelessness abound, and a liar who hurls racist rhetoric from the White House stoop. America needs a course correction.

For True Climate Justice, Abolish ICE and CBP

For True Climate Justice, Abolish ICE and CBP

Lawmakers say frontline communities should be at the heart of the Green New Deal. They must include current and future undocumented immigrants.

US Jews on Trump’s Camps: ‘Never again’

US Jews on Trump’s Camps: ‘Never again’

I’m not saying the events of the Holocaust are repeating themselves right now. I’m saying that, as a Jew, I carry with me the memory of what can happen when everyday people allow our leaders to scapegoat an entire community.

In the US Killing Fields, We’re Way Past ‘Thoughts and Prayers Are Not Enough’

In the US Killing Fields, We’re Way Past ‘Thoughts and Prayers Are Not Enough’

The mass shootings aren’t just symptoms of guns or mental illness, but also of Trump promoting and encouraging white supremacy, racism, and xenophobia.

The GOP’s Sinister New Nationalism

The GOP’s Sinister New Nationalism

The party’s assault on “globalists” and “cosmopolitans” pushes against internationalism when it’s needed most.

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.

Karen Dolan

Project Director

Criminalization of Race and Poverty

Marc Bayard

Project Director and Associate Fellow

Black Worker Initiative, Global Economy

Ebony Slaughter-Johnson

Criminalization of Race and Poverty