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

Trump Launches Aggressive Poverty Disinformation Campaign

The middle class is starting to look poor, but the president’s Council of Economic Advisers now argues that not even the poor are poor—all the better to cut programs that serve both groups.

‘Stand Your Ground’ Laws Encourage Dangerous Vigilantism

Some Americans call the cops on black people for frivolous reasons. Others appoint themselves judge, jury, and — sometimes — executioner.

Punitive, Zero Tolerance Policies Are Endangering Our Students

Restorative justice is a promising alternative to arming teachers and putting cops in schools. And we can prove it.

Election Fight Over Immigration is Fraying Sweden’s Social Fabric

While the ruling red-green bloc is running on an anti-inequality agenda, an insurgent anti-immigrant party is drowning out their message with fearmongering.

Help Spread the Word: #RealSchoolSafety

Help spread the word about our new report, Students Under Siege

Incarcerated Workers Strike Against Dehumanizing Prison Conditions

A nationwide strike takes charge at everything from slavery to sentencing. Organizers say it could be the largest U.S. prison resistance action to date.

Schools Need Resources, Not ‘School Resource Officers’

Turning schools into prisons means sending kids to real-life prisons. There are better ways to keep students safe.

You’ve Heard of the Gender Pay Gap, But There’s More

It takes the typical black woman all the way till August to earn what a white male worker got paid last year.

Report: Students Under Siege

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

I’m Tired of Hearing From Bill Clinton

While the former president gets yet another chance to explain his inappropriate behavior, victims like Lulabel Seitz get shut out of the media spotlight.

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.