Racial Justice

Experts recommend further action to confront racial discrimination in school discipline.

Scholars reflect on school discipline’s inequitable impact.

Scholars advocate reforming and regulating school funding schemes to grant reparations to Black Americans.

A legal scholar advocates the removal—rather than the increased regulation—of police forces from schools.

Scholar argues that pension fund managers have pitted vulnerable retirees against marginalized communities.

Proposition 22 and similar laws exacerbate workforce inequalities.

The federal government should promote racial equity assessments, equity planning, and audits.

Regulators should require banks to lend to Black homebuyers to remedy centuries of discrimination.

Policymakers must address how local governments have created segregation through their policy choices.

Current small business lending discriminates by barring loans to people with criminal histories.

Policymakers must address how firms disparately enforce contracts for vulnerable communities.

Although much more work remains, the current Administration has made historic progress in advancing equity.