One of my favorite people in life is the fabulous Dale Minami. We have been good friends for decades and revel in schooling each other on the history of our respective communities. Recently he asked me if I had seen the exchange between the Dean of Yale Law and our Berkeley Law buddy Dennis Roberts. … Continue reading Dean of Yale Law Gets Schooled on Black History
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EJS Receives Grants from The California Endowment and Maja Kristin Fund
https://www.facebook.com/equaljusticesociety/videos/10154978521704624/ EJS President Eva Paterson describes the links between disproportionate school discipline and implicit bias in her remarks at a July 26, 2017, press conference announcing a landmark settlement with the Kern High School District on behalf of Black and Latino students. The Equal Justice Society recently received a $25,000 grant from The California Endowment and … Continue reading EJS Receives Grants from The California Endowment and Maja Kristin Fund
EJS Receives $50,000 Grant from The San Francisco Foundation
https://youtu.be/kfd6_ZaPchU 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 … Continue reading EJS Receives $50,000 Grant from The San Francisco Foundation
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 … Continue reading Introducing the National Implicit Bias Network
Resilience of Racism Conference
UPDATE: The Resilience of Racism Conference was hosted by the Equal Justice Society and explored mind science concepts such as implicit bias and racial anxiety to help us understand and ameliorate racism in all its manifestations. You can listen to audio from the panels and download a limited set of slides used at the conference … Continue reading Resilience of Racism Conference
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.
Eva Paterson Joins Legal Advisory Board of Impeachment Campaign
Equal Justice Society President Eva Paterson has joined the Legal Advisory Board of the Campaign to Impeach Donald Trump Now, a growing national movement for an impeachment investigation of President Trump. The campaign, launched on Inauguration Day and led by two public interest organizations, Free Speech For People and RootsAction.org, is calling on Congress to start … Continue reading Eva Paterson Joins Legal Advisory Board of Impeachment Campaign
Vanita Gupta to be New President and CEO of The Leadership Conference
The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights announced today that it and its sister organization, The Leadership Conference Education Fund, had selected civil rights litigator and advocate Vanita Gupta to assume the leadership of both organizations. (The Equal Justice Society is a proud member of The Leadership Conference.) Gupta will hold the titles of president and … Continue reading Vanita Gupta to be New President and CEO of The Leadership Conference