The Souls of Black Folks: Reclaiming Our Humanity From Racialized Trauma – “Healing from 400 Years of Enslavement” – is a free conference taking place on December 10, 2019, from 8:30am to 5:00pm at the Hilton Oakland Airport. The Keynote Speaker is Dr. Kenneth Hardy. Soul Food Breakfast and Lunch Served; Workshops, Entertainment, and more; […]
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Welcome to the 100th edition of This Week in White Supremacy. We started this weekly email on September 8, 2017, as part of our fight against white supremacy. Hitting this milestone of 100 editions isn’t bittersweet. It’s just bitter. TWIWS started with a desire to call out white supremacy wherever we saw it. I read […]
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In June 2018, Elizabeth J. Cabraser provided a generous gift allowing the Equal Justice Society to reactivate its Judge Constance Baker Motley Civil Rights Fellowship. Ms. Cabraser, who funded the 2001 conference that led to the founding of EJS, pledged to fund the fellowship for five years. EJS established the Judge Constance Baker Motley Civil […]
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Today, lawyers representing three students, five nonprofits and the Compton Unified School District announced their formal request to the University of California Board of Regents that the UC system cease use of SAT and ACT test scores in admissions decisions. (Coverage in the Los Angeles Times and The Chronicle of Higher Education) The Board of […]
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Alexandria West on Twitter: “A BIG congratulations to Jennifer Richeson for receiving The Career Trajectory Award from SESP today, becoming the first Black individual to ever receive this award. As a biracial bicultural social psychologist, your speech meant so much! #StandingOvation @jaricheson @SESPcon http://bit.ly/2pK6MAx This week, we’re starting with the Good News first! Jenny Holmes […]
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