400 Years After Slavery, No More Band-Aids
It’s time to heal the deep wounds of racism — not only to ensure equity for African Americans, but for our entire economy.
Black and Latino Families Will Be Broke in a Few Decades if We Don’t Fix the Wealth Divide
New research shows that if the growing racial wealth divide is left unchecked, median Black and Latino families will become penniless within a few decades. It doesn’t have to be this way.
This Is What Reparations Could Actually Look Like In America
A tax on concentrated would have a positive impact on the economy for everyone, reducing the racialized, distorting impact of concentrated wealth.
African Americans Are Still Treated as Second-Class Citizens By the Law
The infamous Dred Scott Supreme Court ruling once denied African Americans any and all rights as human beings. Has anything changed?
Virginia Moves in the Right Direction to Reverse Jim Crow Era Voting Barriers
IPS Criminalization of Poverty Project Director Karen Dolan: “Denying voting rights based on criminal records is an egregious affront to the democratic values we espouse in this country.”
Jim Crow in the Holy Land
Our own progress against racism in the United States remains too recent, too fragile, and too incomplete to go on abetting apartheid in Israel.