The Akonadi Foundation today announced the launch of the Oscar Grant Peace and Racial Justice Fund and the immediate availability of mini-grants of up to $500 to support the critical and emerging organizing, advocacy, and cultural work taking place. On the first day of 2009, a white BART police officer shot and killed Oscar Grant,ContinueContinue reading “Akonadi Foundation Launches Oscar Grant Peace and Racial Justice Fund”
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New Study Debunks Myths about African American Voting on Prop. 8
The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Policy Institute yesterday released the results of a study debunking the myth that African Americans overwhelmingly and disproportionately supported Proposition 8. The study, commissioned by the Evelyn & Walter Haas, Jr. Fund in San Francisco, found that the level of support for Prop. 8 among African Americans wasContinueContinue reading “New Study Debunks Myths about African American Voting on Prop. 8”
New Study Debunks Myths about African American Voting on Prop. 8
The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Policy Institute yesterday released the results of a study debunking the myth that African Americans overwhelmingly and disproportionately supported Proposition 8. The study, commissioned by the Evelyn & Walter Haas, Jr. Fund in San Francisco, found that the level of support for Prop. 8 among African Americans wasContinueContinue reading “New Study Debunks Myths about African American Voting on Prop. 8”