Growing up as part of an immigrant family in the Deep South, I witnessed the multigenerational poverty as well as the pervasive and persistent racism that impacted my community. I saw how these things ...

A month before Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated, a report was released by the Kerner Commission, established by President Lyndon Johnson to examine the causes of and solutions to address ...

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We are living in reactionary times. For many funders and organizers, what once felt like steady, if hard, progress on economic and social justice goals now feels more like a stall halfway uphill and a ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Errol Schweizer has the essential take on the grocery industry. According to the survey, over 60% of retail workers made under $15 ...

2022 provided us with countless, often conflicting, insights into the state of the global economy. There was room for optimism in the economic justice movement as organizations and individuals saw ...

Although a less-quoted aspect of his legacy, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. centered economic justice as a core tenet in his fight for liberation. In fact, he died while advocating for the safety ...

Every inch of progress, from emancipation to voting rights, seemed impossible until grassroots organizing, and advocacy made it inevitable. Juneteenth is a day of remembrance and a celebration of the ...

Last week, the White House released a beta version of a tool intended to govern the implementation of its much-publicized “Justice40” program. Justice40 promises that at least 40 percent of the ...

Fannie Lou Hamer, member of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, enters the 1964 National Democratic Convention in Atlantic City, N.J. Fannie Lou Hamer, member of the Mississippi Freedom ...

New Yorkers are tough — but the Trump administration is stretching our resilience. From slashing federal oversight to gutting consumer protections, Washington has left working families vulnerable to ...

Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani continues to shape his team, including who will carry out his affordability agenda when he takes office in January. At a sanitation garage on Staten Island, Mamdani ...