Local Partnerships Change Narrative, Policy, and Community Infrastructure in Richmond, California

In Richmond, California, the Haas Institute has partnered with community leaders and organizations to create strategies to further belonging in the face of persistent racial inequities and displacement. Three related projects unfolded through...

Taking Back Democracy: Relational Organizing and Political Engagement

On April 27 UC Berkeley Professor Lisa Garcia Bedolla provided the final talk in the Research to Impact series, which focused on the benefits of community-based relational organizing and political engagement as new solutions to the persistent problem...

New database exposes anti-Muslim legislation across the US

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE As secretary of state-pick Mike Pompeo, known for his anti-Muslim views, nears confirmation, and the Supreme Court appears poised to uphold the Muslim ban, the Haas Institute releases a database that identifies state lawmakers...

Survey: Majority of Californians oppose border wall, support racial inclusion

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 18, 2018 BERKELEY: Two-thirds of Californians oppose President Donald Trump’s proposed wall along the US-Mexico border and 64 percent believe the state should limit hospital, school, and law enforcement cooperation with...

Reimagining Political Knowledge: Race and the Carceral State

University of Chicago professor Cathy Cohen’s talk on April 13 as part of the Research to Impact series began with two essential questions: what is political knowledge?; and how does race/ethnicity shape the different types of political knowledge...

Prominent lineup of experts, officials to headline UC Berkeley race conference

BERKELEY, CA: More than 30 high-profile figures, including President Obama’s housing secretary, a former US senator, and the mayor of New Orleans, are set to participate in a major, three-day conference from Feb. 27 to March 1 at UC Berkeley...

Haas Institute housing report presents key policies for Richmond, CA

BERKELEY, CA: In the midst of the ongoing conversation on the Bay Area housing crisis, the Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society at UC Berkeley and a coalition of partners from Richmond, California, released a report Friday that highlights...

Haas Institute releases 2017 Inclusiveness Index

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE December 31, 2017 Haas Institute releases its second annual Inclusiveness Index report. BERKELEY, CA: The Netherlands, Sweden, and Norway retained the top three spots in the Haas Institute’s 2017 Inclusiveness Index released...

California adopts 'opportunity maps' for future housing projects

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE December 20, 2017 BERKELEY, CA: As a result of a collaboration between the Haas Institute and several other research and advocacy organizations, the largest low-income housing program in the state will utilize opportunity maps...

What Didn't Happen?

The report, titled “What Didn’t Happen?: Breaking Down the Results of the 2016 Presidential Election,” and authored by Tides Senior Fellow Joshua Clark, uses data from the US Census Bureau, major post-election surveys, and other sources to examine shifts in voting behavior among different demographic groups that led to last year’s major upset.

Atlantic Fellows for Racial Equity Announces Inaugural Class of Fellows

Twenty-nine advocates, organizers and artists selected from across the US and South Africa to tackle anti-Black racism and white supremacy Contact: Lucille Renwick lrenwick@fenton.com 917-326-2643 NEW YORK, NY — The Atlantic Fellows for Racial Equity...

OBI publishes chapter in fair housing book

The Federal Fair Housing Act of 1968 was passed at a time of turmoil, conflict, and conflagration in cities across the nation. The Fair Housing Act was passed with a dual mandate: to end discrimination and to dismantle the segregated living patterns...

New study reveals alarming reach, influence of US Islamophobia movement

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ### BERKELEY, CA: Ultra right-wing activists and their allies in state legislatures and the federal government have in recent years undertaken coordinated and systematized efforts to alienate, criminalize, and perpetuate fear...

Ending DACA 'antithetical' to our deepest values

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Elana Needle, 201-248-9724 Email: Eneedle@raceforward.org Leading Civil Rights and Racial Justice Organizations Condemn Decision to End DACA Ball Now Squarely in Congress’ Court WASHINGTON, DC: Today, organizations...

New Research Shows Racial Disparities in Bay Area Housing Allocation Methodology

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Analysis of Bay Area housing goals and housing permitted shows cities with a higher white population were more likely to receive lower goals for moderate- and lower-income housing # # # BERKELEY, CA: The San Francisco Bay Area’s...

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Crip Space/Time: A Conversation with Dr. Margaret Price

Join us for an in-person discussion with author Dr. Margaret Price about her new book, Crip Spacetime: Access, Failure, and Accountability in Academic Life, on Thursday, Feb. 13 at UC Berkeley. Dr. Price is a Professor in the English Department...

Our Future Economy

What strategies, ideas, skills and relationships will build a future economy that ensures the wellbeing of all workers, communities, and ecosystems? How do we move from the pressing needs and harm today to structures that foster wellbeing for all?