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
A Dream Deferred: MLK’s Dream of Economic Justice Is Far From Reality
90 years after King was born, the racial wealth divide is actually growing — which drags down the entire economy.
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Report: Dreams Deferred
How Enriching the 1% Widens the Racial Wealth Divide
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Democratic Leaders Failed Their First Big Test on Climate
Kicking the can down the road appears to be a bipartisan sport in Washington.
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Trump’s $5 Billion Wall Is a Waste
Here’s what we could spend it on instead.
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Not One Network Should Have Aired Trump’s Immigration Speech
The president is going to demonize the media no matter what they do. So why not do the right thing?
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America Has 14,000 Golf Courses And 6,000 Refugees Waiting At The Border
The United States is a land of plenty, not scarcity — and undocumented immigrants are not the reason our hospitals and social services are crumbling.
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Review: Season 2 of Trump Presidency
Where’s the Wall? Where’s the deal with North Korea? Where’s that Rust Belt revival?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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