Race and Ethnicity

Frederick Douglass is regarded as one of the most prominent abolitionists the world has ever seen. Alongside his extraordinary contributions as an influential speaker, writer and human rights advocate, Douglass…

“Not only have Black farmers received the least amount of direct loans of any ethnic and racial group over the past three years, but also that the number and share…

In 2020, many of our education leaders were shaken to the reality that our public education system continues to resign our Black and Brown children to something well short of the…

Of 89 criminal cases recently solved with the growing but controversial use of genetic genealogy databases — all following the highly-publicized arrest of the Golden State Killer in 2018 — just four were…

Since 1978, the court has allowed colleges and universities to consider the race of applicants. That decision was reaffirmed repeatedly until the current ruling by the court’s conservative majority.

When the board of a foundation dedicated to innovation in healthcare delivery asked, “What could we achieve with advocacy?”, the question changed the entire trajectory of its philanthropy. Executive Director…

During his State of the Union address last week, President Biden discussed the historic, bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), which, he suggested, will help the nation “withstand the devastating effects…

In June 2020, when staff members at the organization I lead — the East Bay Community Law Center (EBCLC) — asked me to designate Juneteenth as an office holiday, I…

Homeowners in mostly white communities prefer to risk another flood rather than move to a more diverse neighborhood on safer ground.

I talked with Abdul Dosunmu, who runs the Climate Justice Funders Pledge, about why BIPOC leadership is important to the climate fight, how transparency changes the behavior of foundations, and how to improve the relationship between environmental justice groups and big funders.

Two disaster response experts mapped who gets FEMA buyouts and where they go. It turns out, they don’t go far.