The core value of the legal profession is justice, but, the realities of the legal profession are often driven by money. The profession’s heavy focus on ensuring that money and money-making resources are transferred from one group to the next serves...
A recent video produced by “Hollaback!”, an organization focused on ending street harassment, has sparked a national conversation about the issue. Filmed from a hidden camera, the short video, which now has over 36 million views, shows a young woman...
Nov. 24, 2014 What happens when a mayor of a major U.S. city points at a resident while posing for a photo? If that mayor poses with a Black male, police officers might accuse that mayor of throwing up gang signs. That's what happened when...
Oct. 30, 2014 For the last year, I have been given the opportunity to work with community partners and residents in Richmond, Calif. to research potential impacts and opportunities on this city due to a planned development project to be built here by...
In Killing Them Softly, comedian Dave Chappelle explained how fearful he was to call the police when someone broke into his house. Now why would someone in a free country like America be afraid to call the police to their own home if they were the...
On Oct. 6, when the Supreme Court declined to review five appellate courts’ decisions to strike down bans on same-sex marriage, a new era for same-sex marriage emerged. Other district courts across the United States have taken this as a precedent to...
Over the past year, there have been widespread media reports of a national housing recovery. Hard hit cities like Detroit, devastated by the foreclosure crisis, are frequently mentioned as leaders in rising home prices. But don’t tell that to the...
Following the Inequality Policy Brief, here are six ways to minimize the rising economic inequality prevalent in the United States. Haas Institute Director john a. powell discusses why these policies will work in slowing the growth in inequality.
During the recent unrest in Ferguson, Missouri, I was struck by the similarities in media narratives of the black and Palestinian experiences. There is nothing new about the nature of these stories, but perhaps the parallels seem more striking given...
Although America's public schools will be "majority minority" for the first time in history, these institutions are just as segregated as ever, with many studies showing that black and brown students remain geographically and socially separated from...
A protester throws a live canister of tear gas that had been fired by police during demonstration. Photo: ABC. Stephanie Llanes and Jamal Ubuntu argue there are three fights we must win in Ferguson and the United States: taking money out of politics...
August 22, 2014 By Sara Grossman The fervid protests in Ferguson, Missouri following the shooting of an unarmed black man have, once again, revealed a massive rip in America’s storied patchwork quilt of cultures and identities. We should not be...
August 21, 2014 The Haas Institute recently planned a field trip to deepen staff’s understanding of the ongoing struggle for equity and justice in the Bay Area. The 2014 Summer Fellows organized a field trip to the Rosie the Riveter World World War...
August 19, 2014 Anchor institutions can play an important role in affecting societal change. From universities, such as the University of California, Berkeley, to hospitals and school districts, anchors have the capacity to change measures of four...
August 15, 2015 By Stephen Menendian Protests in Ferguson, Mo. after an unarmed black teenager, Michael Brown, was shot and killed by Ferguson police. (Photo Credit: Southern Poverty Law Center) Although the “facts” are still in dispute, it’s not...
Vision for Baltimore (V4B) is a successful program at Baltimore City Schools (BCS) designed to provide annual vision screenings for all students and, when necessary, to provide follow-up eye exams and eyeglasses at no cost to families. Download PDF...
Want a chance to hear from experts studying the root of what’s driving us apart and how we come back together? Eager to build the skills to listen empathetically, elicit narratives of connection, and interview professionally? Looking for a chance...
A research-backed guide for building bridges across difference in any area of our lives, from esteemed civil rights scholar john a. powell. We don't want to live in a society in turmoil. In the US, 93 percent of people want to reduce divisiveness...
