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Eva Paterson to Receive ABA Thurgood Marshall Award
The ABA Section of Civil Rights and Social Justice will honor EJS co-founder and former President Eva Paterson with its Thurgood Marshall Award at a dinner celebration honoring her longtime career advancing civil rights during the ABA Annual Meeting in Chicago. The award will be presented on Saturday, Aug. 3, at 7:30 p.m. CDT at…
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George Floyd was murdered four years ago
A white police officer murdered unarmed George Floyd in Minneapolis four years ago tomorrow, May 25, 2020. The murder of Mr. Floyd broadened the Movement for Black Lives to a global reckoning, another cycle of history repeating itself over more than 400 years. In February 1965, 26-year-old Jimmie Lee Jackson was part of a protest…
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Women’s History Month: Honoring EJS’s Women Leaders and Advocates
The Equal Justice Society celebrates Women’s History Month sharing the role of women leaders in founding our organization and how our continued focus on issues impacting women, and Black women in particular, is helping advance the racial justice movement. EJS’s founders were mostly women: Eva Paterson (our inaugural President), Abim Thomas, Susan Serrano, Carrie Avery,…
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Alliance for Reparations, Reconciliation, and Truth
The Equal Justice Society (EJS), California Black Power Network (CBPN), and six former members of the California Reparations Task Force – Dr. Cheryl Grills, Lisa Holder, Dr. Jovan Scott Lewis, Assemblymember Reggie Jones-Sawyer, Senator Steven Bradford, and Donald Tamaki – today announced the formation of a new collaboration called the Alliance for Reparations, Reconciliation, and…
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Equal Justice Society: Abortion bans are part of intertwined systems of oppression
The Supreme Court’s decision today in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which upholds Mississippi’s harmful 15-week ban on abortion, destroys the constitutional right to abortion in our country, a right that we have had for 50 years. This devastating decision will harm millions of people. Abortion bans like Mississippi’s are part of the intertwined…
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AAJA: Nearly a quarter of TV stations in top U.S. markets have zero AAPIs on air
Local TV stations in the top 20 designated market areas (DMAs) did a poor job proportionately representing the AAPI population in their communities, according to preliminary findings of the new analysis announced on May 4 by the Asian American Journalists Association (AAJA). Nearly half (48.3%) of the AAPI population in the U.S. lives in the…
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Janice Ellis: Appointing a Black woman to the Supreme Court is not affirmative action
The distorted misinformation about affirmative action is once again raising its ugly head around the potential nomination of a Black woman to the U.S. Supreme Court. Before any qualified, likely overqualified, Black woman is nominated for the Supreme Court, her reputation is being tainted by the notion that the only reason she is being considered…
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