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
From Civil Rights to Human Rights, Black Community Control Now!
This UN presence marks another important step forward to obtaining true independent oversight and justice for many who have lost their families to anti-Black police terrorism.
Black Women Labor Leaders Call for an End to Violence Against Black Youth and Those Who Stand Up for Them
“The crosshairs trained on our children are now turned on us when we stand up to call out injustice in our criminal justice system.”
Gender Pay Gap Drives Inequality
The persistent pay gap between men and women is a key driver of economic inequality today.
Tryin’ to Make a Dollar Out of 64 Cents
On Black Women’s Pay Equity Day, experts weigh in on stemming the tide of income inequality for African-American women.
Three Felonies a Day
In the world’s most incarcerated country, some high-profile sex offenders walk free.
Caitlyn Jenner Isn’t ‘Posing’ as a Woman—She Is a Woman
What makes us feel like and identify as a certain gender or genders is in our brain, not between our legs.
Looking Beyond the Headlines on Black Jobs and Workers in America
The potential for black workers to rejuvenate the U.S. labor movement and transform it into the ultimate working class and civil rights vehicle is enormous.
How Black Women Can Rescue the Labor Movement
A new report detailing a survey of black women provides important insights that could help improve conditions for all workers. But will the labor movement listen?
Report: The Rise of Black Women Workers
From Ferguson to Baltimore, we’re seeing racial injustices reaching crisis level. Black people are struggling, and economic inequality is at the root of much of the discontent.
REPORT: And Still I Rise: Black Women Labor Leaders’ Voices, Power, and Promise
And Still I Rise: Black Women Labor Leaders' Voices, Power, and Promise A Project of The Black Workers Initiative The idea for this report emerged in October 2013 when the Black Labor Scholars Network (now the Institute for Policy Studies’ Black Worker Initiative) and...
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
