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.

Report: Dreams Deferred

How Enriching the 1% Widens the Racial Wealth Divide

Democratic Leaders Failed Their First Big Test on Climate

Kicking the can down the road appears to be a bipartisan sport in Washington.

Trump’s $5 Billion Wall Is a Waste

Here’s what we could spend it on instead.

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?

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.

Review: Season 2 of Trump Presidency

Where’s the Wall? Where’s the deal with North Korea? Where’s that Rust Belt revival?

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.

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.

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.

Black Worker Initiative

Criminalization of Race and Poverty

Reports

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The Other Side of the Storm

Kimberly Freeman Brown, Marc Bayard | June 21, 2022

What Do Black Immigrant Domestic Workers in the Time of Covid-19 Teach Us About Building a Resilient Care Infrastructure?

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.