The Equal Justice Society has received $500,000 in grants and contributions from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, Weingart Foundation, and Quinn Delaney and Wayne Jordan. “We are grateful for the recognition and support of the Kellogg Foundation, Weingart Foundation, and Quinn Delaney and Wayne Jordan” said Lisa Holder, President of the Equal Justice Society. “In partnershipContinue reading "$500,000 in Funding for Equal Justice Society from W.K. Kellogg Foundation, Weingart Foundation, and Quinn Delaney and Wayne Jordan"
EJS President Eva Paterson to Retire in 2022
UPDATE 08/31/2022: All of us at the Equal Justice Society wish Eva Paterson, our founding President, a happy retirement after more than four decades as a civil rights champion, community leader, and litigator, including 22 years leading EJS and 13 years as Executive Director of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights of the San FranciscoContinue reading "EJS President Eva Paterson to Retire in 2022"
‘A United Nation’s Call For Atonement’ by Michael Tyler
Saturday, March 28, 2026; morning: I was perusing the guide on my TV monitor and landed on a program about the tradition of Palm Sunday. As I watched it, I thought about how the three Abrahamic faiths --- Judaism, Christianity and Islam, had seasons for atonement with many similarities. Yom Kippur, Lent, and Ramadan, respectively,Continue reading "‘A United Nation’s Call For Atonement’ by Michael Tyler"
‘Just Completing A Thought ’ by Michael Tyler
This past Sunday, before I sat down and waited to see what Sinners was going to be awarded and denied by the Academy, I received a Spill alert about Reverend Jamal Bryant apologizing for his ego bulimic purge of self-delusion, unilaterally asserting a national authority to declare a termination of the boycott against Target, a movement thatContinue reading "‘Just Completing A Thought ’ by Michael Tyler"
‘To Be’ by Michael Tyler
People need not have attended top-tier educational institutions to have been exposed to the dominant culture’s canon of literature. Consequently, millions of Americans have heard the most cited Shakespearean quote: “To be or not to be, that is the question.” Even students who once sat in one-room, ramshackled schoolhouses, sharing dilapidated books in the DeepContinue reading "‘To Be’ by Michael Tyler"