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 Revolutionary Idea to Close the Racial Wealth Divide
“Baby bond” accounts for all American kids would bridge the racial wealth gap while providing security to Americans of every color.
Unpacking Netanyahu’s Reelection: Future Implications
U.S. policy and what’s next with the U.S.-Israel relations
Progressive Leaders Unite to Denounce Trump’s Attacks on Rep. Ilhan Omar
We—the undersigned—stand in solidarity with Representative Ilhan Omar and firmly against the rise of Islamophobic attacks and attempts to divide us as a people.
10 Practical Steps to Bridge the Racial Wealth Gap
Gross inequalities were created by public policies, and can by fixed by them as well.
Does Donald Trump Believe His Bizarre Bluster on Immigration?
The president hopes to punish sanctuary cities with his imagined flood of violent undocumented immigrants but the reality is very different.
Has the U.S. ‘War on Drugs’ Failed?
Derek Maltz and Sanho Tree debate the one-trillion-dollar ‘war on drugs’ and Trump’s dream of a border wall with Mexico.
Ayatollah Trump: The Global Rise of the Christian Right
Islamic extremism gets all the press, but Trump is just one of a growing number of Christian extremists in positions of political power.
The State Doesn’t Need to Know My Gender
If we want a real solution that makes everyone safer, let’s cut the paperwork and just get rid of the gender marker on ID’s and Drivers Licenses.
An Open Letter to DC’s Transit Authority: Don’t Subsidize Uber — Restore Service!
Metro’s plan to subsidize its own competition will hurt the planet, public transit, and the working people who rely on it.
Debate over Ilhan Omar Highlights New Willingness in U.S. to Question Power of Pro-Israeli Lobby
Phyllis Bennis joins Amy Goodman of Democracy Now! to discuss the recent media firestorm involving Rep. Ilhan Omar, as well as questions about anti-Semitism and Islamophobia.
Reports
REPORT: Homecoming: The Greater Birmingham Community Speaks on Regional Cooperation and a More Inclusive Economy
The Other Side of the Storm
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
