Ann Arbor Water Tower. Photo by Dwight Burdette Executive Summary The Context of Water Affordability In the last few years, increased attention has been paid to rising costs for water and wastewater services, including the need to upgrade and replace...

The term “identity politics” was first coined by Black feminist Barbara Smith and the Combahee River Collective in 1974. Identity politics originated from the need to reshape movements that had until then prioritized the monotony of sameness over the...

This brief is the first part of the Bold Policy Series published by the Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society at UC Berkeley. Download a PDF of the brief here. Or read a web version here. What ideas exist that can rise to the scale of...

In his historic 1984 speech at Tindley Temple Church in Philadelphia, Rev. Jesse Jackson declared, “Our defeats are characterized by the margin of despair and the fracture of our coalitions.” In an effort to explain both the challenge and a way...

We are pleased to present this report about our remarkable 2019 Othering & Belonging Conference, which was held April 8–10 in Oakland, California. This detailed summary of the conference was produced for all who were part of its execution and success...

In this third brief, we shift the discussion to a more technical, but no less important, matter: the measurement of segregation. As we emphasized throughout this series, racial segregation is not the same thing as racial demographics.

By Tom Sgouros July 9, 2019 Introduction Across America there is a disturbing level of dissatisfaction with the banking system as we know it. Distrust of finance has a long history in the United States, but it is not beyond comprehension to imagine...

In an era of political polarization and fiscal austerity, policy debates too readily become trapped in a binary of either universal responses or targeted solutions.

In November 2017, Make the Road Nevada (MRNV) launched its operations in the state by leading a mile-long march through the neighborhoods of East Las Vegas. The March started around Desert Pines High School, in some of the densest Latinx...

The report was submitted on April 26, 2019 to the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (ICERD).

In 2006, Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation, a Winston-Salem based philanthropic organization, called on several civic engagement and advocacy groups to have facilitated dialogues about progressive reform strategy. Initially referred to as the “Aqueduct...

Download this report here. View the Cultural Strategy Ambassadors video by Barni Qaasim here. In the 2018 midterm elections, narratives of inclusion and exclusion went to battle. In the preceding years, politicians trumpeted bold and explicit...

When most people in Florida close their eyes and think of the places most affected by climate change, overwhelmingly, the image drawn in their mind’s eye is one of a beach. One can hardly expect otherwise given the treatment mass media gives the...