EJS Receives $50,000 Grant from The San Francisco Foundation
As part of its ongoing commitment to advancing racial and economic equity in the San Francisco Bay Area, The San Francisco Foundation announced on July 12, 2017, grants totaling $11.5 million to 140 local organizations. This is the largest combined grant announcement in the foundation’s history. A complete list of the 2017 equity grants can […]
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Introducing the National Implicit Bias Network
The Equal Justice Society has been working with social scientists, lawyers, and activists to build a national network focused on advancing the understanding of implicit bias, racial anxiety, stereotype threat, and other mind science phenomena since our inception in 2000. Since 2016, we have been focusing on creating the National Implicit Bias Network. We started […]
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Resilience of Racism Conference
The Resilience of Racism Conference, hosted by the Equal Justice Society, will explore mind science concepts such as implicit bias and racial anxiety to help us understand and ameliorate racism in all its manifestations. Advanced registration for the conference is closed, but we will be accepting walk-in registrations. Conference fee is $150 for nonprofit/public interest […]
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We Are All Sandra Bland
Go Warriors! On Saturday, I was driving back from picking up BBQ at Everett and Jones in Oakland near Jack London Square–racing to get home to see every minute of the game with the Spurs. My loyalties are somewhat divided because I was born at Brooks General Hospital in San Antonio when my Dad was […]
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The Challenges We Still Face on the 63rd Anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education
Sixty-three years ago today, the U.S. Supreme Court decided Brown v. Board of Education – one of the most important decisions ever handed down by the United States Supreme Court – ending (we thought) the tyranny of “separate but equal” policies in America.
