Growing up as part of an immigrant family in the Deep South, I witnessed the multigenerational poverty as well as the pervasive and persistent racism that impacted my community. I saw how these things ...

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2022 provided us with countless, often conflicting, insights into the state of the global economy. There was room for optimism in the economic justice movement as organizations and individuals saw ...

New York’s first-ever deputy mayor for economic justice says her job is to grow the economy by delivering on Mayor Zohran ...

A month before Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated, a report was released by the Kerner Commission, established by President Lyndon Johnson to examine the causes of and solutions to address ...

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Although a less-quoted aspect of his legacy, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. centered economic justice as a core tenet in his fight for liberation. In fact, he died while advocating for the safety ...

We are living in reactionary times. For many funders and organizers, what once felt like steady, if hard, progress on economic and social justice goals now feels more like a stall halfway uphill and a ...

Fannie Lou Hamer, member of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, enters the 1964 National Democratic Convention in Atlantic City, N.J. Fannie Lou Hamer, member of the Mississippi Freedom ...

Last week, the White House released a beta version of a tool intended to govern the implementation of its much-publicized “Justice40” program. Justice40 promises that at least 40 percent of the ...

“The March on Washington was more than inspiration; it was an act of defiance, a refusal to accept exclusion as fate. Yet here we are, generations later, asking why that promise is still just out of ...