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

How Skewed Are Our Government’s Economic Priorities?

As Trump threatens not to sign the appropriations bill, the battle over the border wall continues to hold up federal government funding.

Marc Lamont Hill and the Legacy of Punishing Black Internationalists

Contemporary renewals of Black-Palestinian solidarity have faced aggressive attacks by the U.S. liberal establishment. CNN is just the latest example.

Is Bush’s Legacy So Different From Trump’s?

Some may mourn Bush’s more “respectable” presidency. but looking back, one sees the very race-baiting and cruelty.

Trump is Spending $210 Million So Troops Can Hang Out With Border Agents Tear-Gassing Children

Military veterans are speaking out against the border stunt, calling it a “profound betrayal of our military.”

What We Took Away From the 2018 Midterm Elections

Spending records, voter suppression, and high youth turnout mark the most expensive midterm elections of all time.

2018 Midterm Elections: A Ballot Initiative Breakdown

Voters in several states passed measures to protect and expand the rights of people across the country.

We Have Movement Work To Do

If more registered voters—more young people, more people of color, more poor people, more women, more immigrants and students and workers and activists—had voted, things might be just a bit better. That’s our real challenge.

Trump’s Only Election Strategy Was Racism

Republicans can only win by racial gerrymandering and voter suppression. And Trump can only win by using fear and racism.

The ‘Blue Wave’ Was Also a ‘Muslim Wave’

In the most Islamophobic election in history, Muslim candidates scored big wins by embracing progressive policies.

6 Women of Color Who Campaigned for Congress on Inequality and Won

Each is heading to Washington to advance a bold social and economic justice agenda, with a strong focus on reversing inequality.

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.