Dr. David J. Johns is the CEO and Executive Director of the National Black Justice Collective, the nation’s only civil rights organization working at the intersection of Blackness and queerness. Dr. Marcus Anthony Hunter is a sociologist, the first person to tweet #BlackLivesMatter, and author of Radical Reparations: Healing the…
Tag: Equity Week
Policy & Legislation
The Next 250 Years Cannot Look Like the Last. Equity Week on Capitol Hill Demands Repair.
During Equity Week on Capitol Hill, Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley (MA-07) hosted a press conference calling on Congress to advance reparative justice legislation for communities of color who bear the disproportionate burden of this nation’s institutional social, racial, and economic inequities. Speakers included Congresswoman Summer Lee (PA-12), Dreisen Heath (reparations organizer),…