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The Eviction Process: A Training for Massachusetts Attorneys and Advocates

MLRI

Boston’s Racial Equity History Project

Northeastern University
Interactive map showing the spread of racially restrictive deeds across of Hennepin County.

Millions more Americans now have the right to vote in non-English languages

Gabe Osterhout and Lantz McGinnis-Brown
Access to voting materials in a citizen’s native language helps boost involvement and voter turnout.

Improving Data on Race and Ethnicity: A Roadmap to Measure and Advance Health Equity

Grantmakers In Health (GIH) and the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA)
This Roadmap builds on an earlier report, Federal Action Is Needed to Improve Race and Ethnicity Data in Health Programs, in three critical respects. First, it expands on that report’s summary of the current state of race and ethnicity data in health care programs, offering more detail…

Racial Residential Segregation in Greater Boston

Harvard Chan-NIEHS Center for Environmental Health
Environmental racism is a term coined by activists in the environmental justice movement. The term describes how policies and practices surrounding environmental hazards disproportionately burden Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) communities while privileging White and wealthier…

Identifying and Addressing Characteristics of White Supremacy Culture

Frankie Quasarano, University of Michigan
A resource guide highlights characteristics of white supremacy culture, as outlined by Dr. Tema Okun, that can be pervasive in organizations and institutions. White supremacy is made manifest in many ways, some being more covert than others. The characteristics identified in this resource guide can…

Getting the Word Out:Outreach and Community Education for Legal Aid and Information Providers

Various
This December 15, 2021 presentation offers legal aid and other legal help and legal information providers ideas they can use to connect with vulnerable people in need of civil legal help in Massachusetts. Recording of the Presentation: View the presentation at this link. The presentation…

Race & Inequality in America

Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity
Jointly sponsored by CSREA and the Office of the Provost, the “Race & in America” series gathers Brown scholars to discuss how anti-Black racism remains an enduring and foundational feature of American society from a range of fields and scholarly perspectives. Speakers include:…

We're Reporting Census Data All Wrong

Luc Schuster, Boston Indicators
Census data on race and ethnicity are invaluable for understanding who we are as a region and how we’re changing over time. Invaluable, yes. But also imperfect. Headlines during the census count last year focused on challenges facing Census Bureau workers during a pandemic and on the Trump…

How Should Companies Fight Bias?

Clara Ferreira Marques
A Q&A with author Jessica Nordell on tackling sexism and stereotyping in the workplace and the need for better data on whether corporate diversity training actually works.

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: Inclusive Language in Writing

American Psychological Association
These inclusive language guidelines are written for those working to champion equity, diversity, and inclusion in the spaces that they learn, teach, work, or conduct research. This includes, but is not limited to, APA staff, volunteer leaders, members, students, affiliated organizations, and EDI…

Why addressing racism against Black women in health care is key to ending the US HIV epidemic

Nabila El-Bassel, Columbia University
Black American women have disproportionate HIV infection rates – in part because of systemic and structural racism in the health care system.  In late 2020, the American Medical Association declared structural racism a public health threat and emphasized the urgent need to…

Diversity helps nonprofits accomplish more when staff from different backgrounds can connect

Brad R. Fulton, Indiana University
When staff members learn how to acknowledge and talk about their social differences, nonprofits can get better at developing strategies, forming alliances and mobilizing people, a recent study found.

Latinos in Massachusetts

The Gastón Institute
2021 Latinos in Massachusetts series of reports focuses on the cities in the state with large Latino populations and that were most affected by Covid-19 cases.  This release includes the cities: Chelsea, Lawrence, Lowell, Lynn, New Bedford Springfield…

Building AAPI Power: A Profile of AAPI Communities in Greater Boston

Boston Indicators
Many Americans are finally waking up to the long history, impact and disgraceful persistence of racial injustice in America. Many others, of course, experienced these injustices firsthand and needed no awakening. But the elevation of racial justice to the top of the mainstream civic agenda provides…

Examples of Completed Race Equity Tool

City of Seattle Government
Website that includes links to completed racial equity analysis for a variety of projects.

Centering Race and Structural Racism in Immigration Policy Research

Hamutal Bernstein, Sara McTarnaghan, and Ayesha Islam, Urban Institute
The Urban Institute convened leading voices in policy research and advocacy for a discussion on centering race and structural racism in immigration policy research, with the goal of articulating gaps to support change in the field.  This brief draws from this conversation to identify key…

Landlords Are Less Likely to Reply to Applicants with Black and Latino Names

Kelsey Butler
In the largest study of its kind to date, researchers created fictitious renters with names more often associated with White, African American or Hispanic identities. They then tracked more than 25,000 interactions between those people and 8,476 property managers in 50 of the largest U.S.…

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion: Catchy Slogans and Buzzwords with Little Proof That They Matter to the Legal Profession in Massachusetts!

Sheriece M. Perry, Office of Court Management, Massachusetts Trial Court
Boston College Law Review.   Chief Justice Ralph D. Gants dedicated his life and much of his work on the bench of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court to racial equity and justice. Sheriece Perry credits the late Chief Justice with his support of the Supreme Judicial Court’s…

Contact with Child Protective Services is pervasive but unequally distributed by race and ethnicity in large US counties (Brief Report)

Edwards, Wakefield, Healey and Wildeman
From the introduction to the article: This article provides county-level estimates of the cumulative prevalence of four levels of Child Protective Services (CPS) contact using administrative data from the 20 most populous counties in the United States. Rates of CPS investigation are extremely…

Implicit Bias Test

Harvard University
In the book Blindspot, the authors reveal hidden biases based on their experience with the Implicit Association Test. Project Implicit is graciously hosting electronic versions of Blindspot’s IATs. These should work properly on any desktop computer and on several touch-screen devices…

Spatial Equity Data Tool

Urban Institute
Tool to allow anyone to upload data to quickly assess spatial and demographic disparities.  The tool can help identify whether services tied to a physical location, such as parks, Wi-Fi hotspots, or food distribution sites, equitably reach intended populations and…

Black Families Matter: How the U.S. Family Regulation System Punishes Poor People of Color

Dorothy E. Roberts
One hour lecturer.  This year marks the twentieth anniversary of the publication of Shattered Bonds: The Color of Child Welfare, the groundbreaking study of family regulation by acclaimed scholar of race, gender, and the law, Professor Dorothy E. Roberts. Drawing on her forthcoming…

OP ED-- Let's end criminal record penalty--and save money too

David Siegal, Robert Cordy, Crispin Birnbaum, Pauline Quirion
  This is an op ed in favor of automatic criminal and juvenile record sealing and other improvements that can be made by pending legislation.  Contact Pauline at GBLS for more information at  pquirion@gbls.org

Black WWII veterans would get G.I. benefits under Seth Moulton bill

Amy Sokolow, Boston Herald
The benefits of the G.I. Bill, often thought of as the path to the middle class for millions of WWII veterans, were largely denied to Black veterans. U.S. Rep. Seth Moulton, D-Salem, hopes to change that with a new bill. “Many Black veterans were … denied benefits, denied homes,…

March & Nov 2021 Update of FPL Tables in MassHealth & Health Connector

MassHealth & MLRI
Attached are updated Tables from MassHealth and MLRI showing the upper income levels for MassHealth and Health Connector programs. It is updated to show the cost of living adjustments for 2021 that take effect in MassHealth programs on March 1, 2021. The Health Connector uses the 2020 federal…

What ‘Structural Racism’ Really Means

Jamelle Bouie
Opinion piece, New York Times.

Black Lives Matter, Pandemic Inequalities Drive Use of Racial Impact Statements in State Policy

Elaine S. Povich, USA Today
From the article: More states are trying to assess the racial impact of new laws, as the consciousness of many legislators has been raised by the murder of George Floyd, the Black Lives Matter movement and the pandemic’s disproportionate effect on minorities. In many states, lawmakers…

Land acknowledgments meant to honor Indigenous people too often do the opposite – erasing American Indians and sanitizing history instead

Elisa J. Sobo, Michael Lambert, and Valerie Lambert
Land acknowledgments state that activities are taking place on land previously owned by Indigenous peoples. They’re popular – but they may harm more than they heal, say three anthropologists.

Why Your Chief Executive Officer Should Also Be Your Chief Diversity Officer

Rania Robinson, AdWeek
Rania Robinson advocates for inclusivity to be driven by the topmost leader, and the role of the CEO in maintaining accountability before others become burdened 

Zoning and Equity (Webinar)

A Rappaport Center for Law & Public Policy
Co-Sponsors: Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies; BC Black Law Students Association (BLSA) Sara Bronin, Professor of Planning and Law at Cornell University Amy Dain, Consultant, Amy Dain Research; Participatory Moderator Lydia Edwards, Boston City Councilor, District One Harley Etienne,…

Understanding the Rights of and Unique Challenges Faced by Indigenous Migrants

Immigrant Legal Resource Center
During the webinar, community leaders shared their experiences and perspectives as Indigenous people on Indigenous rights, sovereignty, migration, and ways to better serve Indigenous migrant clients.

Working with clients experiencing Traumatic Brain Injury

Liz Valentin, Suffolk University Law School
While legal aid attorneys have come a long way in embracing trauma-informed advocacy, we still have much to learn about the physical and mental health of our clients. Traumatic Brain Injuries (TBIs) can produce cognitive and psychological impairments, and not just for professional football players.…

School Hate Crime Resource Guide

Massachusetts Executive Office of Public Safety and Security
Prepared by Institute on Race and Justice at Northeastern University, American University, and the Anti-Defamation League of New England The goal of this School Hate Crime Resource Guide is to provide information to assist elementary, middle, and high schools in Massachusetts in preventing and…

Why we need to embrace introverted Black women in the workplace

Rene Germain
From the article: “When we aren’t overly talkative, overly expressive and living our lives out loud as they expect, I believe our lack of animation and conversation can be misread as mean, unfriendly, angry, unhappy, and even not engaged. The trouble with this is, this misperception…

Community Voice and Power Sharing Guidebook

John Sankofa, Hannah Daly, and Elsa Falkenburger
The Urban Institute created a guidebook that covers different topics in community-engaged work to aid those who are just beginning these efforts or looking to expand or deepen the work they are already doing. The guidebook includes practical advice for partnership building, community…

The first battle in the culture wars: The quality of diversity

Nicholas Ensley Mitchell, The Conversation
The meaning of words like “equity” and “inclusion” – used often in discussions of diversity – is difficult to grasp until Americans address what they think “diversity” looks like. That’s because the quality of diversity comprises both a political…

Don’t Let Hybrid Work Set Back Your DEI Efforts

Alexandra Samuel and Tara Robertson, Harvard Business Journal
  Hybrid work is likely to exacerbate diversity and equity challenges — and gains — that we saw during the era of remote work. By measuring five aspects of the hybrid workplace — 1) who’s spending time working at the office versus at home; 2) who gets to choose when…

For Black students, unfairly harsh discipline can lead to lower grades

American Psychological Association
Article about a study showing that Black students more likely than white students to be suspended for minor infractions, harming later academic achievement

Fact Sheet: Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program Overhaul

U.S. Department of Education
The Department of Education is announcing a set of actions that, over the coming months, will restore the promise of PSLF. We will offer a time-limited waiver so that student borrowers can count payments from all federal loan programs or repayment plans toward forgiveness. 

DEI: How to Address Microaggressions in the Workplace

Mckenzie Cassidy
Addressing and eliminating microaggressions should be part of your Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) strategy to ensure the improvement of company culture. Microaggressions are thinly veiled, everyday instances of racism, homophobia, or sexism. Often, they surface as small comments, gestures,…

Coerced Debt - Presentation for Community Providers

On September 29, 2021, the Massachusetts Access to Justice Commission sponsored a presentation for community advocates in Massachusetts about dealing with debt resulting from intimidation, bullying, and domestic violence - also known as coerced debt. Kristen Bor-Zale, Equal Justice Works fellow…

The Roles of Suspensions for Minor Infractions and School Climate in Predicting Academic Performance Among Adolescents

Juan Del Toro and Ming-Te Wang, University of Pittsburg
The present study shows that more African American youth are suspended for minor infractions than White youth. In addition, these suspensions predicted poor school grades and school climate perceptions for African American youth. These findings raise concerns about school adults’ discretion in…

DEI: How to Address Microaggressions in the Workplace

Mckenzie Cassidy
Addressing and eliminating microaggressions should be part of your Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) strategy to ensure the improvement of company culture. Microaggressions are thinly veiled, everyday instances of racism, homophobia, or sexism. Often, they surface as small comments, gestures,…

From Seed to Harvest: A Toolkit for Collaborative Racial Equity Strategies

Leah Obias and Emi Yoko-Young, Race Forward
A guide to racial equity practices within your community-government collaboration for sustainability and renewable energy policies and programs. With this toolkit, you will learn a process for cultivating your plan, program, or policies through three steps: Preparation Planting…

Why Data Disaggregation is key during a pandemic: A digital transformation toolkit

Pan American Health Organization
From the author: When a pandemic occurs, an appropriate and efficient response requires that we identify and characterize the factors that slow or accelerate transmission and the populations that are most vulnerable. High quality, accessible, trusted, timely, open, and reliable disaggregated data…

What Does "Latinx" Mean, Exactly? Everything you need to know about the gender-inclusive term.

Irina Gonzalez
A go-to guide for the meaning of "Latinx." While the difference between "Latinx" and "Hispanic" largely comes down to how you self-identify (more on that, below), "Latinx" has typically been adopted among people who are looking for a more inclusive and…

Still Running Up the Down Escalator: How Narratives Shape Our Understanding of Racial Wealth Inequality

Natasha Hicks, Fenaba R. Addo, Anne E. Price and William A. Darity, Jr
This paper provides up-to-date estimates of the magnitude of racial wealth inequities, explicitly focusing on Black and White populations, and highlights how personal responsibility, bootstraps, and anti-black narratives have distorted society’s understanding of racial wealth disparities and…

Reparations: Issues, Challenges, and Opportunities

Boston College Law School's Rappaport Center for Law and Public Policy
Sponsored by the Rappaport Center for Law and Public Policy Co-Sponsor: BC Law Black Law Students Association (BLSA) Featuring: Jeffery Robinson, Founder and Executive Director, The Who We Are Project; Participatory Moderator Robin Rue Simmons, Former Alderman, Evanston, IL; Founder and Executive…

Fighting Poverty with SNAP: Reassessing the Tool Kit for a Unified Movement for Economic Justice

The Othering & Belonging Institute at UC Berkeley
Countless organization. communities, and social movements across the United States are fighting for a more just and equitable future. Alongside their work, this report envisions a future where hunger is recognized as an issue of poverty and not simply a lack of food and thus where poverty…