E-Newsletter 6.3: Race, Poverty and Transportation, Part 2
Welcome to the third issue of the Race Equity Project’s 2011 e-newsletter: Race, Poverty and Transportation, Part 2. The first piece, which traverses three centuries, details the history around transportation, race, and the law, and places modern day struggles related…
PRRAC publishes a Forum on Implicit Bias
The Poverty & Race Research Action Council dedicated its September/October 2011 newsletter to a thoughtful discussion of Implict Bias and its place in modern anti-discrimination theory and public interest advocacy. The back and forth among the authors is very helpful…
In Memorium
Derrick A Bell, long time civil rights lawyer, Harvard Law School’s first African American tenured professor and the man who developed Critical Race Theory as a method of understanding racialized structures in American society passed away on October 5, 2011. …
“Don’t ask, don’t tell” repealed
“The result, for supporters at least, was an outpouring of euphoria and relief that some compared to the end of racial segregation in the military in the 1950s, or the admittance of women to the service academies in the 1970s.” …
Latino residents in Modesto reach settlement in municipal services case
Attorneys for the plaintiffs in a major civil rights action alleging discrimination in the delivery of municipal services to Latino communities in Modesto, California announced a settlement on June 30, 2011. The suit was originally filed in August 2004 on…
E-Newsletter 6.2: Race, Poverty and Transportation
Welcome to the second issue of the Race Equity Project’s 2011 e-newsletter: Race, Poverty and Transportation. This will be the first of two Race Equity Project e-newsletter issues to explore the intersection of race equity and transportation. The first article…
