Link to the full Poverty & Race Jan-April 2026 issue The Fight for Fair Housing: How the Trump Administration is Politicizing and Refusing to Enforce America's Housing Protections by Paul Osadebe and Palmer Heenan Financial Distress in the Rental Market is Escalating by Ruthy Gourevitch and Jacob Udell What Pauli Murray Had to Say about the Thirteenth … [Read more...] about Poverty & Race Journal (Jan-April 2026)
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What Pauli Murray Had to Say about the Thirteenth Amendment (Jan-April 2026 P&R Journal)
Link to the full Jan-April 2026 Poverty & Race Journal pdf by Brence Pernell and Kelley Akhiemokhali I. Introduction: Pauli Murray’s Expansive Vision of the Reconstruction Amendments The article traces the intellectual, legal, and biographical foundations for Reverend Dr. Pauli Murray’s pioneering view of the Thirteenth Amendment as a broad tool against racial … [Read more...] about What Pauli Murray Had to Say about the Thirteenth Amendment (Jan-April 2026 P&R Journal)
The Southern Education Foundation’s Legacy with Brown v. Board of Education (January-April 2024 P & R Article)
Raymond C. Pierce When I reflect on the 70th anniversary of the Brown v. Board of Education U.S. Supreme Court decision that ended the ‘separate but equal’ doctrine of our nation’s educational system, I can’t help but consider the historic context in which this landmark case evolved and how it reflects the long struggle for educational opportunity. We know that during the … [Read more...] about The Southern Education Foundation’s Legacy with Brown v. Board of Education (January-April 2024 P & R Article)
Censored, Erased, and Whitewashed: Jim Crow Education in the Twenty-First Century (January-April 2024 P & R Article)
Elizabeth Gillespie McRae In January 2021, a presidential-commissioned study on the teaching of U.S. History titled “The 1776 Report” condemned the teaching of so-called critical race theory, identity politics, an emphasis on political oppression, and a tendency to look at “groups” rather than exceptional individuals. Given that Donald Trump left office that same month, the … [Read more...] about Censored, Erased, and Whitewashed: Jim Crow Education in the Twenty-First Century (January-April 2024 P & R Article)
How Brown v. Board of Education Affected Black Teachers: A New Perspective (January-April 2024 P & R Article)
Zoë Burkholder Speaking to a packed audience in Montclair, New Jersey in 1957, director of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund Thurgood Marshall asked, “Can you name two counties in New Jersey where there is a mixed faculty and student body in every public school?” As lead counsel for Brown v. Board of Education, Marshall was certain of the answer: no. There was not a single … [Read more...] about How Brown v. Board of Education Affected Black Teachers: A New Perspective (January-April 2024 P & R Article)
