Link to the full January-April 2025 issue here. by Aaron Golub, Alex Karner, Gabriel Quiñones-Zambrana Title VI and transportation planning overview The federal laws that govern major planning and infrastructure development processes have historically offered opportunities to improve planning processes and project outcomes. While there is no specific federal statute … [Read more...] about Using Title VI to challenge discriminatory transportation investments: Looking back and looking forward (January-April 2025 P&R Journal)
Welcome to PRRAC’s new Executive Director! (January-April 2025 P&R Journal)
PRRAC is excited to announce that Thomas Silverstein will be PRRAC’s new executive director. Thomas is no stranger to PRRAC and its work. As early as 2008, when he was a legal assistant at the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Thomas collaborated with PRRAC on the work of the National Commission on Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity. Since then, Thomas has become a … [Read more...] about Welcome to PRRAC’s new Executive Director! (January-April 2025 P&R Journal)
The Freeway Revolts – then and now (January-April 2025 P&R Journal)
Link to the full January-April 2025 issue here. by Karilyn Crockett In 1954, the Supreme Court’s Brown v Board of Education decision to outlaw “separate but equal” doctrine energized civil rights strategists. The following year, forty-two-year-old Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a segregated Montgomery bus and helped launch a 381-day boycott that successfully … [Read more...] about The Freeway Revolts – then and now (January-April 2025 P&R Journal)
Dividing Lines and the Infrastructure of Racial Inequality (P&R Journal January-April, 2025)
Link to the full January-April 2025 issue. by Deborah N. Archer Introduction In 2019, nine-year-old Amira Johnson sat at her kitchen table with a pen and paper, determined to protect her great-grandmother’s home in Sandridge, South Carolina. The house had been in her family for generations, a cornerstone of the historically Black community founded by people once enslaved … [Read more...] about Dividing Lines and the Infrastructure of Racial Inequality (P&R Journal January-April, 2025)
PRRAC welcomes its new Executive Director, Thomas Silverstein
PRRAC is excited to announce that Thomas Silverstein will be PRRAC’s new executive director. As early as 2008, when he was a legal assistant at the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Thomas collaborated with PRRAC on the work of the National Commission on Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity. Since then, Thomas has become a national leader in multiple approaches to … [Read more...] about PRRAC welcomes its new Executive Director, Thomas Silverstein
