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.
Reports

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
