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
80+ Organizations Urge Biden to Reject Inhumane Cuts to Critical Programs
The ProsperUS coalition issued a letter, as covered in HuffPost, calling on the White House to protect funding for critical domestic programs as shutdown looms
The Roots of Black-Palestinian Solidarity
In demanding a ceasefire and relief to Gaza, we are upholding a tradition of Black freedom struggle that sees justice as a matter that extends across and beyond national borders
A Series of Ups and Downs for Immigrants in the U.S.
We must shift the scale away from subsidized violence and towards sustaining the protection and enrichment of immigrant communities.
Phyllis Bennis on Al Jazeera: We Need an Immediate Ceasefire in Gaza
We can maintain our “grief and outrage” over the killing of Israeli civilians while still fighting to prevent a “potential genocide” in Gaza.
Poverty Made an Alarming Jump. Congress Should Have Stopped It.
It’s time for policymakers to listen to American workers and families instead of billionaires and corporate bosses.
Sixty Years Later, We Can Make King’s Dream a Reality
In our new report, “Still A Dream,” we note progress—alongside some humbling findings about how far we have to go.
We Still Have a Dream
Sixty years after Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech, our racial economic divide is vast as ever. But it can still be closed — and quickly.
REPORT: Still A Dream: Over 500 Years to Black Economic Equality
60 years after the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, the racial wealth divide persists.
The Biden Asylum Ban Swings Back and Forth in Judicial Courts
For now, the asylum ban is still here, and every day that it is in effect is a day that thousands of asylum seekers are turned away from the border on top of the 2.7 million denials justified under Title 42
Affirmative Action Has Ended, but the Need for Diversity Hasn’t
Protecting diversity on campus creates better paths to opportunity for students of every race. The question now is to figure out how.