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
The Politics of American Protest, With a North Korean Twist
The right wing has attacked Gwen Berry for her Olympic trial protest. A North Korean defector has joined that chorus.
Poor People’s Campaign and House Progressives Call for a ‘Third Reconstruction’
A new Congressional resolution lays out a comprehensive vision for eradicating poverty and tackling racial and economic inequality.
New Research Vindicates Scientist Attacked by Pork Industry Over Environmental Racism Charges
Corporate industrial livestock operations pose serious health threats to nearby residents, who are often low-income people of color.
Humanizing the People Police Kill
The standard, often unreliable reporting on police killings dehumanizes victims — a fact my own family knows too well.
What Chinatowns Can Teach Us About Community
As our country looks to “build back better,” Chinatowns show how to foster vibrant, welcoming communities of all kinds.
Migrant Women Farmworkers: An Invisible Essential Labor Force
The Biden administration must address the industry’s long-standing gender discrimination and systemic inequalities, which have become even more severe during the pandemic.
Rebuilding Black-Owned Businesses after COVID-19
The pandemic hit Black entrepreneurs especially hard. To recover, we need to treat the pre-existing conditions.
Voter Suppression Is An Attack On Democracy — And My Faith
My faith teaches me to stand with the marginalized, whose voting rights are now under sustained assault.
I Want Civil Rights. They Want to Talk About Sports.
Republicans are leveraging public ignorance about trans people to deny Queer Americans basic civil rights.
The Fight for Equal Pay Must Include Domestic Workers
Gender inequality in the workplace rests upon how we value, or fail to value, care workers.
Reports
Reimagining School Safety
Black Immigrant Domestic Workers in the Time of COVID-19
Report: Agricultural Cooperatives
Report: Pay, Professionalism, and Respect
Report: Students Under Siege
