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How to Close the Digital Divide in the U.S.

Bhaskar Chakravorti, Harvard Business Review
From the summary of the report: The U.S. government is negotiating a plan to address one of the most important — but overlooked — problems facing the country: the digital divide. While this problem is often talked about as a simple problem of access to broadband internet service, it…

MassHealth Estate Recovery webinar for assisters & legal aid July 22, 2021

MLRI
MassHealth Estate Recovery A webinar for enrollment assisters & legal aid advocates July 22, 2021, 2-3 pm Recording & slides of July 22 Estate Recovery webinar now available. If you missed the July 22, 2021 Estate Recovery Webinar, the recording is posted here on the…

Inclusive and Empathetic Language Use Guidelines

Alliance for Healthier Communities
Referring to people as the vulnerable, the poor, the homeless, drug addicts, mentally ill, disabled, etc., is common in policy documents, media and our own communications. Unlike derogatory terms or slurs, these words are not meant to be intentionally harmful. More often than not they are used out…

Race Equity at the Core of Consumer Law

The Shriver Center on Poverty Law
The report highlights consumer advocates who are seeking to actively acknowledge and directly confront the ways in which racism impacts their consumer clients and consumer advocacy

Race Equity at the Core of Consumer Law

The Shriver Center on Poverty Law
This report is a collection of chapters written by consumer advocates across the country making the case that consideration of race should be central to the practice of consumer law. Within, readers will find concepts and case studies that the authors hope will assist consumer advocates…

Black LGBTQ Individuals Experience Heightened Levels of Discrimination

Lindsay Mahowald, Center for American Progress
The compounding effects of discrimination for Black LGBTQ Americans are evident in the workplace, health care systems, and police interactions, leading to gaps in economic advancement and mental and physical health outcomes.

Approaching Consumer Law with a Racial Justice Lens

The Shriver Center and the National Consumer Law Center
The Shriver Center and the National Consumer Law Center offered a series of free webinars featuring Legal Impact Network members and other advocates discussing strategies for applying a race equity lens to consumer law advocacy. In the first session, they discussed why race is a critical part…

The Problem(s) of Broadband in America

Sean Gonsalves
From the introduction: It has become a truism that high-speed Internet connectivity in a 21st century economy is not a mere luxury, but a necessity, nearly as important as electricity. Yet, a common misunderstanding of exactly where the digital divide is located has led to faulty assumptions…

Center for Research on Unemployment Insurance Systems Website

Center for Research on Unemployment Insurance Systems
Visit the Center for Research on Unemployment Insurance Systems to find data items and tools related to Unemployment Insurance (UI).

Centering Racial Equity in Measurement and Evaluation: Emerging Lessons and Guidance from Human Service Nonprofits

Leiha Edmonds, Clair Minson, and Ananya Hariharan (Urban Institute)
Many nonprofit organizations that provide direct human services are exploring how racial equity and inclusion (REI) and performance measurement collectively inform decisionmaking and strategies that affect their core mission. Human service nonprofits often hold an explicit charge to increase the…

Life On Hold: Black Immigrants & the Promise of Liberian Refugee Immigration Fairness

The Federal Legislation Clinic (FLC) at Georgetown University Law Center and The UndocuBlack Network (UBN),
From the introduction to the report: This report intends to provide those interested and invested in the livelihoods of Black immigrants with knowledge and advocacy tools. The report begins with a broad discussion of the Black immigrant experience in the United States, along with descriptions of…

It’s Time to Retire “Vulnerable Communities”

Communicate Health
In public health, dear readers, talking about “vulnerable” communities, populations, or individuals is standard fare. We’ve all said it many times when referring to communities we’re prioritizing with our communications or programs. But this week, we wanted to make a case for retiring it from our…

Racial Impact Statements

Nicole D. Porter, The Sentencing Project
Racial impact statements are a tool for lawmakers to evaluate potential disparities of proposed legislation prior to adoption and implementation. Analogous to fiscal impact statements, they assist legislators in detecting unforeseen policy ramifications.  ractically speaking, it is…

Do No Harm Guide: Applying Equity Awareness in Data Visualization

Jonathan Schwabish and Alice Feng, Urban Institute
In this guide and its associated toolkits, Urban Institute focus on how data practitioners can approach their work through a lens of diversity, equity, and inclusion. They conducted over a dozen interviews with nearly 20 people who work with data to hear how they approach inclusivity in their…

Racial and Ethnic Inequities in Health Care Coverage and Access 2-13-2019

Jesse C. Baumgartner, Sara R. Collins, and David C. Radley
This Data Brief examines coverage/access inequities for Black and Latinx/Hispanic adults, with a focus on effects of Medicaid expansion on equity at the state level.  

Race Equity Organizational Readiness Assessment

Shriver Center on Poverty Law
An assessment tool to gage an organization's alignment with racial equity principals. 

Black Wall Street’s Second Destruction After the Race Massacre, Greenwood rebuilt strong. Then came “urban renewal.”

Carlos Moreno, Next City
Article on how the 1921 Tulsa race massacre was followed by many of the "legal massacres" described in the Color of Law (redlining, highway and ring road destruction of neighbood, urban renewal, zoning abuse, eminent domain abuse, loss of generational wealth and…

White Supremacy Culture – Still Here

Tema Okun
From the article website: This article is an update of the original White Supremacy Culture article published in 1999. While I wrote the words on the pages that became the White Supremacy Culture article all those years ago, I want to make it clear that I do not consider the original article, or…

The Color of the Capital Gap

Boston Indicators, the Economic Inclusion Strategy team at the Boston Foundation and in partnership with the Coalition for an Equitable Economy
A report analyzing troubling racial gaps in access to small business capital and explore a range of local strategies for expanding access.

Immigration and Blackness: What’s Race Got to Do With It?

Karla McKanders
Failing to pay attention to the nuances of immigration law and policy and its impact on immigrants of African descent is dangerous in that it hinders a comprehensive understanding of how racism has operated in the U.S. legal system and how it continues to operate in many facets of immigration laws.…

Questions and Answers About Guardianship of a Minor in Massachusetts

VLP
Brochure:  Questions and Answers About Guardianship of a Minor in Massachusetts English brochure Spanish brochure  

Emergency Broadband Benefit (EBB)

MLRI
An introduction to the Emergency Broadband Benefit (EBB) program for Massachusetts advocates and community partners.  Applications for EBB open on May 12, 2021. Learn more and apply at GetEmergencyBroadband.org.   

Questions and Answers About Guardianships of Adults/ Incapacitated Persons

VLP
Brochure:  Questions and Answers About Guardianship of an Adult in Massachusetts English brochure Spanish brochure

Senate Ways and Means FY 22 Budget Proposal: MLRI's Preliminary Analysis of Selected Issues

MLRI
On May 11, 2021, the Senate Committee on Ways and Means released its budget proposal for fiscal year 2022 (FY 22), Senate 3.  MLRI offers this preliminary analysis of selected budget topics affecting low-income residents of the Commonwealth. Download the document below.

The Difference between Hispanic and Latino

Nicki Lisa Cole, Ph.D.
Hispanic and Latino are often used interchangeably though they actually mean two different things. Hispanic refers to people who speak Spanish or are descended from Spanish-speaking populations, while Latino refers to people who are from or descended from people…

Diversity Recruiting Strategies: 8 Diversity Recruitment Best Practices for 2021

Jess Stanier
From the article: This article will help you understand the steps you can take to improve diversity through recruitment. We cover the 20% of diversity recruitment strategies that can yield 80% of the results including: Setting the right goals Collecting and understanding equality…

Generational Differences in Racial Equity Work

Dax-Devlon Ross
An article looking at a pattern of generational conflict manifesting in myriad ways in social justice.

MA Bullying Report of Massachusetts Muslim Youth: Standing Up & Speaking Out Standing Up & Speaking Out

The Council on American-Islamic Relations
In this report, the Massachusetts Chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-MA) presents its analysis of a 2019-2020 school climate survey of Massachusetts Muslim Youth. The survey was administered to 190 students across the Commonwealth. The purpose of this report is to understand…

Be Antiracist with Ibram X. Kendi (Podcast)

Ibram X. Kendi
Be Antiracist imagines what an antiracist society might look like and how we all can play an active role in building one. Dr. Ibram X. Kendi is the author of How to Be an Antiracist, the book that spurred a nationwide conversation redefining what it means to be antiracist, and in this podcast, he…

House Ways and Means FY 22 Budget Proposal: MLRI's Preliminary Analysis of Selected Issues

MLRI
On April 14, 2021, the House Committee on Ways and Means released its budget proposal for fiscal year 2022 (FY 22), House 4000.  MLRI offers this preliminary analysis of selected budget topics affecting low-income residents of the Commonwealth. Download the document below.

DEI Language Guidelines

American Psychological Association
As stated in the first edition, the guide is written to raise awareness, direct learning, and support the use of culturally sensitive terms and phrases that center the voices and perspectives of those who have been historically marginalized or stereotyped. The guide also explains the origins of…

Civil Rights and the Impact of Native American Names, Symbols, and Imagery in School Mascots

A Briefing Report of the Nebraska Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights
This report begins with a brief background of the issues to be considered by the Committee. It then presents an overview of the testimony received. Finally, it identifies primary findings as they emerged from this testimony, as well as recommendations for addressing areas of civil rights concerns

Inclusive Language Guide

Oregon Health & Science University Center for Diversity and Inclusion
The OHSU Inclusive Language Guide is intended as an evolving tool to help OHSU members learn about and use inclusive language in institutional communications, patient care (including chart notes), instruction and presentations around descriptors of: • Race and ethnicity • Immigration…

How Racism Affects Children of Color in Public Schools

Nadra Kareem Nittle
Institutional racism doesn’t just affect adults but children in K-12 schools as well. Anecdotes from families, research studies, and discrimination lawsuits all reveal that children of color face bias in schools. They’re disciplined more harshly, less likely to…

Community Engagement Can’t Be a Checklist

Marisa Denker, Winslow Mason, and Alicia Atkinson
From the article: The foundation for growth and impact in any community must be rooted in robust and inclusive community engagement as we strive to achieve racial, cultural, gender and other forms of equity. Engagement is—or should be—a process that happens with a community,…

How Structural Racism Works — Racist Policies as a Root Cause of U.S. Racial Health Inequities

Zinzi D. Bailey, Sc.D., M.S.P.H., Justin M. Feldman, Sc.D., and Mary T. Bassett, M.D., M.P.H.
As a legacy of African enslavement, structural racism affects both population and individual health in three interrelated domains: redlining and racialized residential segregation, mass incarceration and police violence, and unequal medical care. These examples, among others, share certain cardinal…

How Tone Policing Is Used to Silence Black Women

Blackburn Center
Tone policing can be used against anyone. It is frequently used against marginalized people, in part due to unconscious bias. Consider this example: Chris believes that Fran doesn’t have a right to tell Chris what to do because of Fran’s race or gender. For this reason, Chris may try to shift the…

Beyond the Business Case for Diversity: What Leaders Must Do

David A. Thomas and Robin J. Ely
Is it time to stop making the business case for diversity? Two scholars who have been studying diversity for decades say that the business case is a dangerous fallacy, one that lets leaders off the hook and trades human dignity for dollars.

COVID-19's Impact on Race and Housing Security Across Philadelphia

PhillyTenant.Org
From the introduction to the report: This report outlines the ways that housing policy, the COVID-19 pandemic, and other realities intersect to harm communities of color, and especially Black women living in those communities. The report also explores the ways these groups are “locked out…

Why Are Latinos So Overrepresented in the State Child Welfare System?

Shira Schoennberg
Latino children are more likely than white children to have an open DCF case and more likely to be removed from their homes. In fact, according to the national research organization Child Trends, Latinos were more overrepresented in foster care in Massachusetts than in any other…

Strategy Chart for community organizing and coalition building

Texas Appleseed
A tool to help organize advocacy.  Chart that addresses goals, organizational considerations, constituency, decision makers, tactics, deadlines and tasks. 

The Legacy of Racism within the U.S. Border Patrol

Katy Murdza and Walter Ewing, Ph.D., American Immigration Council
From the introduction to the report: Since its creation roughly a century ago, the U.S. Border Patrol has been steeped in institutional racism and committed violent acts with near impunity. The agency was tasked from the very beginning with rounding up immigrants deemed “racially…

Court Forms Online - online interview to generate 209A forms in Massachusetts

Court Forms Online - Mass Access
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, a collection of volunteers spanning five continents came together to produce free mobile-friendly online court forms for use in Massachusetts.   The project operates out of Suffolk Law's Legal Innovation and…

Black Americans suffered the most under Trump-era consumer-protection agency, study finds

Andrea Riquier, MarketWatch
Financial-services companies began to reduce monetary settlements to consumers assumed to be Black or lower-income as soon as Donald Trump became president, according to a working paper published Thursday. 

Governor's FY 2022 Budget Proposal: MLRI's Preliminary Analysis of Selected Issues

MLRI
The Governor’s FY 2022 Budget Proposal: Preliminary Analysis of Selected Cash and Nutrition Assistance, Child Welfare, Health Care, Homelessness Services, Housing and Legal Services Items On January 27, 2021, Governor Baker released his budget proposal for fiscal…

The Financial Restitution Gap in Consumer Finance: Insights from Complaints Filed with the CFPB

Charlotte Haendler and Rawley Heimer
Consumers seek restitution for disputed financial services by filing complaints with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). We find that filings from low-socioeconomic (i.e., low-income and African American) zip codes were 30% less likely to be resolved with the consumer receiving…

Denial Is the Heartbeat of America: When have Americans been willing to admit who we are?

Ibram X. Kendi
To say that the attack on the U.S. Capitol is not who we are is to say that this is not part of us, not part of our politics, not part of our history. And to say that this is not part of America, American politics, and American history is a bald-faced denial. But the denial is normal. In the…

Impact of Racial Discrimination and Trauma on Racial Health Disparities in African American Populations

Sierra E. Carter, PhD, Georgia State University
In this talk, Dr. Carter cites findings that at least 90% of Black adults and youth report experiencing at least one incident of racial discrimination in the past year. She also presents research indicating that African Americans live sicker and die younger than other racial and ethnic…

Debt Collection Lab

Princeton University, Dignity+Debt, VizE Lab and SSRC
Website that tracks debt collection court cases in real time and has begun doing so in five states. The DCL also uses the arts and storytelling to change the narrative about debt justice. Advocates may use the online debt collection tracker to examine which neighborhoods are hardest hit by debt…

How to have productive conversations about race at work

Meredith Somers MIT Management
From the introduction: The police body camera footage, social media posts, and mounting news stories all made it clear to the leadership at software company HubSpot this summer that it was time to communicate where the company stood on race and racism. But it was the unsteady cellphone…