How We Rise

U.S. Democratic Congressional candidate Deb Haaland, who is trying to become the first Native American woman in the U.S. House of Representatives, hugs Dottie Tiger at a Native Vote Celebration on midterm elections night in Albuquerque, New Mexico, U.S., November 6, 2018. REUTERS/Brian Snyder TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

Native Americans support Democrats over Republicans across House and Senate races

Gabriel R. Sanchez and Raymond Foxworth · Tuesday, November 15, 2022

Students laughing at recess

Defining a culture of care for Black boys

Camille Busette

Monday, October 31, 2022

Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) students Keiley Flores, 13, Andrea Ramos, 10, and Alexander Ramos, 8, work on school-issued computers with unreliable internet connectivity, as their mother Anely Solis, 32, tries to connect them to her mobile hotspot, during the global outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), at their home in Los Angeles, California, U.S., August 18, 2020. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson

The socioeconomic consequences of COVID-19 for Latino families

Gabriel R. Sanchez, Noreen M. Sugrue, and Adrián A. Pedroza

Wednesday, October 19, 2022

July 26, 2020, Boston, Massachusetts, USA: A Black Lives Matter protester holds "Black Lives Matter" sign during a rally at Nubian Square in Boston. (Photo by Keiko Hiromi/AFLO) No Use China. No Use Taiwan. No Use Korea. No Use Japan.

Black Lives Matter at 10 years: 8 ways the movement has been highly effective

Wednesday, October 12, 2022

Protesters holding placards that read "black+brown+Asian solidarity" during the demonstration.End The Violence Towards Asians rally in Washington Square Park. Since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, violence towards Asian Americans has increased at a much higher rate than previous years. The New York City Police Department (NYPD) reported a 1,900% increase in anti-Asian hate crimes in 2020. (Photo by Ron Adar / SOPA Images/Sipa USA)No Use Germany.

Are Asian Americans people of color or the next in line to become white?

Tuesday, October 11, 2022

U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks as he attends a Labor Day celebration at the United Steelworkers of America Local Union 2227 in West Mifflin, Pennsylvania, U.S., September 5, 2022. REUTERS/Elizabeth Frantz

Biden’s cannabis pardons: a long overdue reassessment of the War on Drugs

Friday, October 7, 2022

Abortion rights supporters gather at Lafayette Square near the White House in Washington, D.C. on August 23, 2022, urging President Biden to declare a public health crisis after Roe v. Wade was overturned earlier in the year. (Photo by Bryan Olin Dozier/NurPhoto)NO USE FRANCE

Is abortion policy pushing Latinos back towards the Democratic Party?

Gabriel R. Sanchez

Thursday, August 25, 2022

Members of Harriets Wildest Dreams and Bans Off Our Bodies led rallies in front of the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., on June 24, 2022. That morning, the court’s conservative majority ruled 6-3 in the case Dobbs v. Jackson. This ruling brings an end to the federal protection of abortion access granted by Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey. States across the country fully closed all abortion clinics shortly after the ruling was handed down. Despite the court’s ruling, around 61 percent of the U.S. supports access to abortion in most cases, according to a poll by the Pew Research Center. (Photo by Zach Brien/NurPhoto)NO USE FRANCE

Dobbs, another frontline for health equity

Keon L. Gilbert, Gabriel R. Sanchez, and Camille Busette

Thursday, June 30, 2022

A patient suffering from Long COVID is examined in the post-coronavirus disease (COVID-19) clinic of Ichilov Hospital in Tel Aviv, Israel, February 21, 2022. Picture taken February 21, 2022. REUTERS/Amir Cohen

Living with COVID-19 will not be easy for many Americans suffering from long COVID-19, particularly those from diverse communities

Gabriel R. Sanchez, Keon L. Gilbert, and Camille Busette

Tuesday, June 21, 2022

Protesters rally to call attention to Asian-American discrimination and remember the Asian-American lives lost in a series of shootings last night in Atlanta, in Chinatown, Washington, D.C., on Wednesday, March 17, 2021, amid the coronavirus pandemic. Last night a White gunman allegedly targeted Asian-American owned massage parlors around Atlanta killing eight in a string of shootings, including six women of Asian heritage, as reported hate crimes against Asian-Americans have risen dramatically during the pandemic. (Graeme Sloan/Sipa USA)No Use Germany.

Confronting the invisibility of anti-Asian racism

Wednesday, May 18, 2022

Members of the Buffalo Police department work at the scene of a shooting at a Tops supermarket in Buffalo, New York, U.S. May 16, 2022. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid

Preventing racial hate crimes means tackling white supremacist ideology

Tuesday, May 17, 2022

People sit in the observation area after receiving a dose of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine at Shiloh Baptist church on March 7, 2021 in Orlando, Florida. The one-day outreach to the Black community in the Parramore neighborhood hoped to administer 600 vaccines to local residents. (Photo by Paul Hennessy/NurPhoto)NO USE FRANCE

Churches are closing in predominantly Black communities – why public health officials should be concerned

Yusuf Ransome, Insang Song, Linh Pham, and Camille Busette

Tuesday, May 3, 2022

A pedestrian looks at cherry blossoms in front of an apartment building just after the Spring equinox, in Washington, D.C., on Monday, March 22, 2021, amid the coronavirus pandemic. With nearly 550,000 confirmed deaths to COVID-19 in America, vaccination rates are going up and nearly 25% of Americans have received at least one dose of a vaccine. (Graeme Sloan/Sipa USA)No Use Germany.

Economic disparities in the Washington, D.C. metro region provide opportunities for policy action

Camille Busette and Samantha Elizondo

Wednesday, April 27, 2022

Laundromat workers walk out the job to protest the current working conditions. On the commemoration of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, November 25, 2020 a group of seven laundromat workers in New York City, confronted their employer at Wash Supply in Manhattan, alleging abuses of labor law and labor rights. These women have been designated essential workers and their labor makes it possible for people on Manhattans Upper West Side to have their clothes cleaned. (Photo by Erik McGregor/Sipa USA)No Use UK. No Use Germany.

As the jobs recovery nears completion, it’s time to talk about job quality

Makada Henry-Nickie, Regina Seo, and Anthony Barr

Tuesday, April 19, 2022

Jessica (C), 28, says goodbye to Abel, 32, as she holds their five-year-old daughter Camila at San Quentin state prison in San Quentin, California June 8, 2012. An annual Fathers' Day event, "Get On The Bus" brings children in California to visit their fathers in prison. Sixty percent of parents in state prison report being held over 100 miles (161 km) from their children. Regular prison visits lower rates of recidivism for the parent, and make the child better emotionally adjusted and less likely to become delinquent, according to The Center for Restorative Justice Works, the non-profit organization that runs the "Get on the Bus" program. Picture taken June 8, 2012. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson (UNITED STATES - Tags: CRIME LAW SOCIETY)

April is Second Chance Month

Keesha Middlemass

Thursday, April 14, 2022

Contributors

Camille Busette

Senior Fellow - Brookings Metro, Economic Studies, Governance Studies

Director - Race, Prosperity, and Inclusion Initiative

@CamilleBusette

Rashawn Ray

Senior Fellow - Governance Studies

@SociologistRay

Makada Henry-Nickie

Nonresident Fellow - Governance Studies

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Richard V. Reeves

John C. and Nancy D. Whitehead Chair

Senior Fellow - Economic Studies

Director - Future of the Middle Class Initiative

Gabriel R. Sanchez

David M. Rubenstein Fellow - Governance Studies

Howard Henderson

Director, Center for Justice Research - Texas Southern University

Professor of Justice Administration - Texas Southern University

Jennifer Lee

Julian Clarence Levi Professor of Social Sciences - Columbia University

Robbert Dijkgraaf Member - Institute for Advanced Study

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Willow Lung-Amam

Nonresident Senior Fellow - Governance Studies

Jhacova Williams

Associate Economist - RAND Corporation

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