A major policy brief from the Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society offers a proven roadmap to end extreme inequality in the United States. The brief, entitled “The Path to a Fair and Inclusive Society: Policies that Address Rising...
by Stephanie Llanes and Rasheed Shabazz | October 30, 2014 The year 2014 marks half a century since the War on Poverty sought to integrate the New Deal and expand opportunity for all. On Oct. 16-17, the Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice...
by Rasheed Shabazz | September 17, 2014 Prof. john powell kicked off the 2014 Ruth Chance Lecture series on Sept. 15. This year’s lecture series is themed, “The Next 50,” marking the 50-year anniversaries of the Civil Rights Act, launch of the War on...
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...
Community activists and researchers at the Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society released a report Oct. 30 calling on UC Berkeley to partner with existing residents to support the community vision for the largest development project in the...
Date: October 27, 2014 Position: Research Assistant Term: Fall 2014 The Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society is seeking a research assistant. The position will require at least 8 hours of work per week. Hourly wage is based on education...
KPFA Radio & Marcus Books present “The Path to A Fair and Inclusive Society: Seeing the Other in Me" Concerning Ferguson...all the Fergusons... The Path To a Fair and Inclusive Society: Seeing the Other in Me Hosted by Brian Edwards-Tiekert Wednesday...
by Rasheed Shabazz | October 7, 2014 MADISON, Wis. – Over 500 people attended the 13th YWCA Madison’s Racial Justice Summit on October 2-3 in Wisconsin’s capital city. The two-day event brought together community advocates, nonprofit and government...
October 2014 The challenge we face today: the fear of the Other. How can we structure society to acknowledge our deep connection? - john powell #Bioneers14 (from Twitter) Haas Institute Director john powell spoke to a crowd of over 1,500 people at...
Juana María Rodríguez is a member of the Haas Institute's LGBTQ Citizenship cluster and a professor of Gender and Women's Studies at University of California, Berkeley. Here, she discusses the "politics of respectability" in the gay marriage movement...
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...
Haas Institute Director john powell spoke to a crowd of over 1,500 people at the annual Bioneers conference in San Rafael, CA on October 19, 2014, where he was an invited plenary speaker. john's talk, entitled "Beloved Community: Interbeing, Race...
Drawing upon history as well as insight into the current crisis, this book shows that this foreclosure and lending crisis is not an anomaly, especially for people of color; nor is it over.
The book is a compilation of the best and still-most-relevant articles published in Poverty & Race, the bimonthly of The Poverty & Race Research Action Council from 2006 to present.
Twenty years since the publication of the Second Edition and more than thirty years since the publication of the original book, Racial Formation in the United States now arrives with each chapter radically revised and rewritten by authors Michael Omi and Howard Winant
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...
