A Matter of Life and Death: Asylum Seekers’ Lack of Access to Competent Legal Representation
By Yunie Hong, Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles, and Timothy Griffiths, Survivors of Torture, International Ms. C is from Eritrea. She was forcibly conscripted into mandatory military service right after completing high school. In the military, Ms. C’s superiors…
Healthy City – A Resource for All Californians
The REP is a partner in Healthy City’s statewide initiative and we truly believe in this effort to democratize data. Healthy City recently published the following press release, which explains the project in detail: Catalyst for Social Change Now Available…
Health Care Resources from Kaiser Family Foundation
Many REP blog readers work with clients of color who face a number of challenges when trying to access health care services. The REP recently learned of resources available to advocates working on such issues from the Kaiser Family Foundation. …
New Juvenile Justice Data Map Resource
The W. Haywood Burns Institute for Juvenile Justice Fairness and Equity has released a web-based interactive state data map showing racial and ethnic disparities in juvenile justice systems in the United States. To use the data map, the website explains,…
Crime and Recession – A Conservative Perspective
In a recent Wall Street Journal article Heather Mac Donald, of the conservative think-tank “The Manhattan Institute”, claims that poverty, racism, and social injustice are not root-causes of crime. Mac Donald argues that under conventional left-wing wisdom, crime should be increasing due…
Study supports Black renters’ case against Antioch
The San Francisco Chronicle provided an update in an article today on a case involving minority residents of Section 8 housing in Antioch, California, that was first written up by the Race Equity Project E-Newsletter a year ago. The subject…
