This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In today’s global economy, racism is not only ignorant, it’s costly. Just ask Facebook, which has lost billions in advertising revenue amid calls to eliminate hateful rhetoric from its platform. Hopefully, this…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Off a country road deep in Durham, North Carolina, dozens of people wearing white shirts gather under a large, white tent in an open field. There is singing, clapping, and…
What will a just transition look like in practice? And how can you organization help make it happen? The Just Transition Alliance, I think, does a fantastic job of really…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Rental payment history is a strong indicator of how well a borrower would perform with a mortgage loan. But until this week, these data have been largely left out of…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Fifty years ago, the Poor People’s Campaign, conceived by Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., as a means to advocate for equality and opportunity, was launched in Mississippi, defiantly, in the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. It’s not just the delta variant that makes Zhenghao Lin, a Chinese immigrant, nervous about returning to school next month. Zhenghao, a rising senior at Franklin Delano Roosevelt High School…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Homeownership is often viewed as the entree to the American dream and the gateway to intergenerational wealth. However, this pathway is often less achievable for Black Americans who post a…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Black Americans die at higher rates than White Americans at nearly every age. In 2019, the most recent year with available mortality data, there were over 62,000 such earlier deaths…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Awelcome development as the labor market has continued to recover since spring 2020 has been a narrowing of the gaps in unemployment rates between Black and Hispanic men and white…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The conversation about reparations for slavery entered a new stage earlier in 2021, with the U.S. House Judiciary Committee voting for the creation of a commission to address the matter.…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Coaching teachers on classroom management and culturally responsive strategies can result in fewer racial disparities in discipline, according to a study appearing in a special issue of School Psychology Review.…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. As our second pandemic Labor Day approaches, Black worker leaders are determined to never again bear the brunt of a national crisis as they have under Covid. The latest horror:…