Sentences with phrase «racial justice efforts»

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Three African American Racial Justice Leaders Respond To Starbucks Effort To End Bias In Its Company

Troy Jackson is the interim executive director of the AMOS Project, a faith - based organizing effort in Cincinnati fighting for racial justice.

A civil rights lawyer and advocate for racial and social justice, Ms. Wiley joined the de Blasio administration in early 2014 to focus on legal issues as well as on the mayor's efforts to address issues of inequality.

Those efforts got a boost last week when Citizen Action New York, a statewide grassroots group committed to racial, social and economic justice, endorsed his candidacy.

Fire in the Heart is especially aimed at white students seeking inspiration and guidance in the effort to deepen their commitments to racial justice and activism.

The irony of course is that the nation's teachers unions — especially UFT's parent organization, the American Federation of Teachers — have adopted the language of racial justice activism (and have appropriated the Black Lives Matter name) in an effort to deflect attention from their role in perpetuating the systems that deny black and brown children a proper education.

Whether at trial or in an appellate courtroom, writing his own superb autobiographical nonfiction, the best - selling Just Mercy, or in his efforts to evoke and acknowledge the historical narratives of the black experience and our legacy of racial injustice in America through the work of the Equal Justice Initiative, Stevenson employs well - told stories to change the shape of the world.