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A report this month from the Kaiser Family Foundation highlights the disproportionately negative impact on people of color of decisions by Gulf South governors and legislatures and those in other states.
An Equal Justice Initiative analysis shows how the 50th Anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s Gideon Decision demonstrates ongoing problems in indigent defense.
In an extraordinary, perhaps definitive occasion of the 50th Anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King’s Letter from Birmingham Jail on April 15, 2013, ordained leaders of Evangelical, Pentecostal, Catholic, Protestant, and Orthodox traditions signed a new response to that classic Letter.
In a new report, the Insight Center for Community Economic Development finds that predatory payday loans in 33 states cost the American economy $774 million in 2011 resulting in the loss of more than 14,000 jobs.
While many people of color have critically engaged double-consciousness in many and diverse fields of study, W.E.B Du Bois offers a way of spiritual transformation that has largely been missed by white America.
In February 27, 2013 the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments regarding Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act, the key provision that requires states with a history of denying minority rights to gain approval of the Department of Justice or Federal Court prior to making any changes in voting procedures.
In testimony submitted to a Senate subcommittee on December 12, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) described how zero-tolerance policies that heavily use suspension, expulsion, and police officers contributes to a “school to prison pipeline,” funneling students into the criminal justice system.
While many of Thomas Merton’s books have helped a broad lay audience understand and engage in practices of Western mysticism and Buddhism, his prophetic and contemplative stance against white racism has yet to be understood— much less practiced—by a critical mass of white people of faith.
On November 3, 2012, the Birmingham Civil Rights Award was presented to Bryan Stevenson, Executive Director of the Equal Justice Initiative.
On November 7, 2012 a candlelight vigil was held at the University of Mississippi in response to post-election campus disturbances.