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Spotlight
Since the nation’s founding, the fabric of American society has been woven with deeply racist policies, practices, and attitudes that harm Black and Indigenous people of color. These policies have led to an unequal system where white people have both implicit and explicit advantages because of the color of their skin, leading to better opportunities in jobs, education, and housing.
Systemic Equality is a racial justice agenda that seeks to address America’s legacy of racism and systemic discrimination through administrative and legislative campaigns targeting the Biden-Harris administration and Congress, advocacy efforts, legal strategies to strike down laws and practices that exclude and harm, and a significant investment and dedicated resources in the South.
News and Commentary
How Much Do You Know about Redistricting?
How Much Do You Know about Redistricting?It’s official: the once-in-a-decade redistricting process has begun. How does redistricting become gerrymandering, and what does that mean for your voting rights? Test your knowledge.
Cruel and Violating: How Texas’ Abortion Law Assaults Our Fundamental Rights
Cruel and Violating: How Texas’ Abortion Law Assaults Our Fundamental RightsThe fight to block Texas' radical new abortion restrictions.
Why We’re Joining the Call to Shut Down ICE Detention Centers
Why We’re Joining the Call to Shut Down ICE Detention CentersOn too many fronts, the Biden administration is failing to deliver on its promises to end the inhumane treatment of immigrants. That’s why today, we’re joining the Detention Watch Network, FIRM Action, Mijente, United We Dream, and the We Are Home Campaign’s “Communities Not Cages” National Day of Action.