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K-12 Schools Remain Free to Pursue Diversity Through Race-Neutral Programs (April – July 2023 P&R Journal)
Excerpted from Poverty & Race, Volume 32, No.2 (April – July 2023) Sign up for PRRAC’s biweekly newsletter here. David G. Hinojosa Ahead of the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent decision in Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA) v. Harvard and SFFA v. UNC (2023), there was great trepidation among the civil rights community and others on how far the ruling could extend … [Read more...] about K-12 Schools Remain Free to Pursue Diversity Through Race-Neutral Programs (April – July 2023 P&R Journal)
Featured Articles Under HUD Advocacy
Amicus Brief in City of Oakland v. Wells Fargo (N.D. Cal. 2017) Amicus Brief in Bank of America Corp. v. City of Miami and Wells Fargo & Co. v. City of Miami (October 2016) Amicus brief in American Insurance Association v. HUD (challenge to HUD disparate impact rule, D.D.C. 2016) The Power of the Supreme Court's Decision in the Fair Housing Act Case by Florence … [Read more...] about Featured Articles Under HUD Advocacy
A Mensch with a Mission: Chester Hartman (1936-2023)
By Peter Dreier In 1960, Chester Hartman, then a graduate student in city planning at Harvard, received a notice from his draft board informing him that he had lost his student deferment and was reclassified 1-A. Rather than get drafted (the United States was calling up troops because of the Berlin crisis), Chester enlisted in the Army Reserve, which required an initial six … [Read more...] about A Mensch with a Mission: Chester Hartman (1936-2023)
Civil Rights History
PRRAC is committed to promoting a deeper public understanding of our country’s history of racial oppression, and the ways in which that history is embedded in and perpetuated by current institutions and practices. At the same time, an appreciation of the history of the Civil Rights Movement of the mid-twentieth century can be an inspiration to current activists, as we see … [Read more...] about Civil Rights History