Equal Justice Society

The symposium is set for Friday, October 26, 2007, at the UCLA Faculty Center and will be called ‘Economic Opportunity in California: The Labor and Employment Impact of Prop. 209′ and will examine and discuss the 10-year impact of Proposition 209 on public employment, contracting and the public sphere.
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One of our attendees at the July 24 luncheon learned from her mother about the work of EJS and on her own decided to donate a dollar and change to us.  She is our youngest donor to date!

We’d like to thank the attendees, sponsors and luncheon co-chairs for supporting our 2nd Annual Constance Baker Motley Civil Rights Fellowship Luncheon yesterday.
We’d especially like to thank Morrison & Foerster LLP for their sponsorship and Dr. Shakti Butler for her incredible presentation on unconscious racial bias.
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UCLA’s Civil Rights Project/Proyecto Derechos Civiles, one of the nation’s leading research centers on issues of civil rights and racial inequality, on July 23 released a key report examining critical developments in affirmative action in higher education since the Supreme Court’s landmark 2003 Grutter v. Bollinger decision, which upheld affirmative action policies.
The report, “Charting the [...]

An interesting article on diversityinc.com by Luke Visconti about why white people may not understand the ongoing struggles of Blacks.
My favorite pull-outs from the piece:
In my observation from personal experience, almost 100 percent of white people have almost no concept of the “struggle” that African Americans face today. They may think they do, but it’s [...]