The Equal Justice Society welcomes Vanessa Holman as our 2024-2025 Judge Constance Baker Motley Civil Rights Fellow – a fellowship honoring the first African American woman to serve on the federal bench. Vanessa started at EJS on October 21. The Motley Fellowship is funded by a generous gift from Elizabeth J. Cabraser. EJS established theContinue reading "EJS Welcomes Vanessa Holman as Judge Motley Civil Rights Fellow"
We have been here before. Stay the course with us.
Twenty-five years ago, great civil rights leaders formed EJS to combat a baseless false equivalency narrative that America is colorblind and post-racial, no longer dependent on equity policies to level the playing field for equality. EJS countered the false narrative with social science establishing that explicit and implicit bias perpetuated white supremacy and institutional racismContinue reading "We have been here before. Stay the course with us."
A Veteran’s Salute, by Michael Tyler
By Michael Tyler, EJS Poet-in-Residence The Black Power Movement was in full swing during the Vietnam War. When many Black soldiers arrived to the battlefields, they took with them, as a gesture of cultural solidarity, the raising of the Black Power fist. White soldiers and officers took offense to the gesture, even equating it withContinue reading "A Veteran’s Salute, by Michael Tyler"