A racial equity assessment by the UIC Great Cities Institute indicates Oak Park has work to do to make its citizens feel included.

And racial equity in America requires racial healing. America has been poisoned by racism for centuries. But as we celebrate another Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, the research is clear.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I'm co-founder & CEO with 30+ years in community economic development. At a time when attacks on racial equity initiatives in ...

Last year, she appointed Treasury’s first counselor for racial equity to improve engagement with diverse communities. Yet the administration’s focus on equity has at times drawn a backlash.

Racial equity is an idea that’s top of mind for many, both in the United States and globally. Rather than simply considering it, in honor of its 90th anniversary, the W.K. Kellogg Foundation ...

Racial-justice funding includes all of this but goes further by acknowledging history, and explicitly focusing on building power in communities of color and lasting change in how systems operate.

On Friday, Mr. Biden’s $6 trillion budget began to make good on his promise of making racial equity “the business of the whole of government. ...

To achieve racial-equity gains, those investments should be directed to sustainable projects in challenged communities. “We really need groups that are grounded in the local communities to be building ...

A report card on racial equity. The council will also test a new report card in early 2023 to provide an annual snapshot of the progress units and schools across the university and health system are ...

The Mayor’s Racial Equity Initiative has surpassed its private sector fundraising goal of $150 million, the city of Charlotte said Thursday. Recent corporate donations from Honeywell ...

Minnesota foundations boosted their funding for racial equity and racial justice in 2020 after George Floyd's murder, but such grants still made up a small slice of the state's philanthropic ...

New York City’s official racial equity watchdog has finalized a list of 18 policy goals for reducing racial disparities in health, policing, education and a range of other areas across the five ...