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

Indigenous Peoples Day and the Years of Repair

This Indigenous Peoples Day, the Indigenous-led organization NDN Collective launched the ‘LANDBACK’ campaign.

A Bittersweet Hispanic Heritage Month

This year, we’re facing high COVID-19 infection rates, job losses, and voter suppression. But we are resilient.

Inequality and COVID-19 in 13 Charts

A new data visualization series illustrates how the pandemic and flawed policy responses have widened long-standing economic, racial, and gender divides.

Ginsburg Would Want Women to Fight, Not Despair

The late justice dedicated her career to women and other marginalized Americans, and we owe her the same faith she had in us.

Let ‘Gender Reveal’ Parties Burn

Even their creator says enough is enough. Let children discover themselves on their own terms.

The NFL Can’t Avoid Politics Even If It Wants To

NFL owners and even some fans might want to simply watch their teams compete and forget about the world’s problems. Right now, that’s just not possible.

Save Lives. Fill Out Your Census.

Taking the census ensures your community gets its fair share of funding — and representation — during the pandemic and beyond.

Reimagining School Safety

A look at the dangers posed to students by law enforcement and how to invest in real school safety for our nation’s children.

Killing Someone Is Not Like Missing a Golf Putt

Trump’s vile equivalence of a golf putt to police violence says a lot about the bubble America’s super rich live in.

Black Labor Leaders Are Needed Now More Than Ever

We’re working to build the leadership and strategists that a diverse labor and worker movement demands today.

Black Worker Initiative

Criminalization of Race and Poverty

Reports

Reimagining School Safety

Cecelia Scheuer, Uma Nagarajan-Swenson, Karen Dolan, Lindsay Koshgarian | September 9, 2020

A look at the dangers posed to students by law enforcement and how to invest in real school safety for our nation’s children.

Black Immigrant Domestic Workers in the Time of COVID-19

Marc Bayard, Kimberly Freeman Brown | June 16, 2020

Black immigrant domestic workers are at the epicenter of three converging storms—the pandemic, the resulting economic depression, and structural racism.

Report: Agricultural Cooperatives

Michael Paarlberg | November 8, 2018

Opportunities and Challenges for African American Women in the South

Report: Pay, Professionalism, and Respect

Marc Bayard, Kimberly Freeman Brown | October 5, 2018

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

Report: Students Under Siege

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

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

Report: I Dream Detroit

Marc Bayard, Kimberly Freeman Brown | October 10, 2017

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

Report: Mothers at the Gate

Karen Dolan, Ebony Slaughter-Johnson, 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.