Perspectives in Belonging: Marlon Peterson

This piece was originally published in our We Too Belong report and is part of our work in inclusive practices in immigration & incarceration. Marlon Peterson is the founder of Precedential Group Social Enterprises, a social justice organizational...

Perspectives in Belonging: Aparna Shah

T his piece was originally published in our We Too Belong report and is part of our work in inclusive practices in immigration & incarceration. Aparna Shah is the Executive Director of Mobilize the Immigrant Vote (MIV), a statewide, multi-ethnic...

Perspectives in Belonging: Talila Lewis

This piece was originally published in our We Too Belong report and is part of our work in inclusive practices in immigration & incarceration. Talila Lewis is an attorney-activist who is working to increase access to the legal system for deaf and...

Perspectives in Belonging: Aurora Garcia

This piece was originally published in our We Too Belong report and is part of our work in inclusive practices in immigration & incarceration. Aurora Garcia is an organizer with California Partnership, a project of the Center for Community Change...

Perspectives in Belonging: Raha Jorjani

May 19, 2016 By Raha Jorjani This piece was originally published in our We Too Belong report and is part of our work in inclusive practices in immigration & incarceration. Raha Jorjani is the director of the Immigration Representation Unit with the...

US Refugee Resettlement Under Attack

Following the November 2015 terrorist attacks in Paris, 30 US governors demanded that President Obama stop the resettlement of Syrian refugees to their states. Unsurprisingly, federal judges have ruled these demands unconstitutional. Since then...

Women & STEM: It's Not Just a Numbers Problem

Women have been problem solvers as long as women have existed. The representation of women in science, technology, engineering, and math fields—known as STEM—is a problem that not only has not been solved, but also needs better solutions. And it’s...

2016 is the Year of Identities

This post is reprinted from a letter he penned for our Fall 2015 newsletter that was published in May 2016. THE ELECTION OF PRESIDENT OBAMA as the nation’s first African American president was heralded by many as the beginning of a new post-racial...

Housing Segregation Undergirds the Nation’s Racial Inequities

This was originally posted on the Economic Policy Institute blog. In June, the Supreme Court rescued the Fair Housing Act from a claim that it prohibited only overt discrimination—where a government body announces that it is enacting a housing policy...

This Changes Everything: The $15 Living Wage and Connectedness

Small talk. It is the great pleasure of life whether it is across the dinner table with old and new friends or with the server at your favorite place. It can start with a simple question, “What’s good tonight?” By the end of the evening, we are all...

On Whiteness: Perspectives from Haas Institute Staff and Scholars

In response to the questions What does it actually mean to be “white”? Is there a white identity? And does it come with a set of benefits that others don’t get?" If white privilege is a real thing, what should that mean for everyone about how we...

Unequal Rates of Poverty and Access to Care Play a Role in Widening Health Disparities

America’s alarming racial disparities have come to the forefront of our national consciousness in recent years, at least partly thanks to the activism of the Black Lives Matter movement and increased media coverage of racial inequality.

Scalia's Blind Spot

For more than a generation, our highest Court has been firmly controlled by Republican appointees, with many seminal cases decided by the Court’s most moderate Republican appointee, a baton handed off between Lewis Powell to Sandra Day O’Connor to...

Leap Forward so Every Worker is Paid a Living Wage, Fight for $15!

It’s Leap Day. You ready to Leap Forward? You think we can dramatically improve life for those who heretofore have been held back? I understand why you wouldn’t think it possible. For two generations, we’ve been convinced there is not enough to go...

Harper Lee to Ta-Nahesi Coates: Race in literature in 2015

Two of the most important books on race released in 2015, the exhumed novel, Go Set A Watchman, Harper Lee’s sequel to the award-winning classic, To Kill a Mockingbird, and journalist Ta-Nehisi Coates’ long-form letter to his teenage son, Between the...

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Bridging Partnerships for Scaling Housing Justice

Register now Housing justice for all. To truly be for all, we need housing solutions at scale. Scaling just solutions that match what our communities want and need is about more than building more affordable housing units. It requires building...

2024: Building a World Where Everyone Belongs

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