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Disrupting Harm in Dance
Whistle While You Work
Disrupting Harm in Dance is a curriculum as much about reimagining the future as it is about the practices and tools that can be implemented immediately by anyone or any institution. This is an online self-directed course offering information and tools for dancers, performers, and adjacent professionals to work more safely together.
Published January 10, 2024Accessibility + Disability JusticeAdvocacyHealth & WellnessJustice Equity & InclusionRacial JusticeSexual + Gender-Based ViolenceToolkit/Guide -
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Making Participatory Budgeting Work: The Equity Imperative
Nonprofit Quarterly
In participatory budgeting, community members decide together how public funds are allocated and spent in their communities. This article talks through the processes, challenges, and opportunities of PB.
Published April 26, 2024AdvocacyJustice Equity & InclusionArticle -
Know Your Voting Rights: For People with Mental Disabilities
National Asian American Pacific Islander Mental Health Association
We have created a brochure aimed at informing persons, especially persons with mental disabilities, of their voting rights, protections, and options! Translated versions of the brochure are available in Chinese, Hindi, Ilocano, Korean, Marshallese, Tagalog, Tongan, and Vietnamese.
Published October 26, 2023Accessibility + Disability JusticeAdvocacyJustice Equity & InclusionArticleToolkit/Guide -
The Case for Reparations
Ta Nehisi-Coates
Two hundred fifty years of slavery. Ninety years of Jim Crow. Sixty years of separate but equal. Thirty-five years of racist housing policy. Until we reckon with our compounding moral debts, America will never be whole.
Published June 1, 2014AdvocacyBlack + African DiasporaJustice Equity & InclusionRacial JusticeArticle -
Working on a National Plan for Reparations
NowThis
H.R. 40 could help make reparations for Black Americans a reality on a national scale — here’s what you need to know about the landmark bill and where it stands.
Published October 23, 2020AdvocacyBlack + African DiasporaJustice Equity & InclusionRacial JusticeVideo -
Reparations – Has the Time Finally Come?
Nkechi Taifa / American Civil Liberties Union
I have been in the reparations movement for nearly 50 years, and I’ve never been more optimistic about its chances for success.
Published May 26, 2020AdvocacyBlack + African DiasporaJustice Equity & InclusionRacial JusticeArticle -
Ta-Nehisi Coates’ full opening statement on reparations at House hearing
PBS Newshour
Author Ta-Nehisi Coates told lawmakers at a House committee hearing that the debate over reparations is “a dilemma of inheritance.” Coates told lawmakers that many of the inequalities created by slavery persist today, including in the form of economic and health disparities.
Published June 19, 2019AdvocacyBlack + African DiasporaJustice Equity & InclusionRacial JusticeVideo -
H.R. 40 Is Not a Symbolic Act. It’s a Path to Restorative Justice.
Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee / American Civil Liberties Union
By passing H.R. 40, Congress can start a movement toward the national reckoning we need to bridge racial divides.
Published May 22, 2020AdvocacyBlack + African DiasporaJustice Equity & InclusionRacial JusticeArticle -
Intersectionality Matters!
Kimberlé Crenshaw and African American Policy Forum
Intersectionality Matters! is a podcast hosted by Kimberlé Crenshaw, an American civil rights advocate and a leading scholar of Critical Race Theory.
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‘Why We Can’t Wait’ Coalition Statement Urges U.S. Congress to Pass HR 40, Reparations Bill
Human Rights Watch
HR 40 would establish a commission to investigate the legacy of slavery and its ongoing harms as well as come up with proposals to Congress for redress and repair.
Published July 31, 2020AdvocacyBlack + African DiasporaJustice Equity & InclusionRacial JusticeArticleOther -
‘Staying Nonpartisan Guidelines for 501c3 Voter Engagement Activities’ Webinar
Nonprofit VOTE
Joined by speaker David Levitt, Principal at Adler & Colvin, throughout this webinar we discussed what is considered to be nonpartisan, what activities are acceptable, and provided further IRS guidance on tax-exempt voter engagement.
Published April 26, 2024AdvocacyLegalVideo -
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Writers Against the War on Gaza
An educational resource and FAQs on the Palestinian Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel.
Published April 26, 2024AdvocacyArab + SWANAJustice Equity & InclusionLegalRacial JusticeWebsite