racial justice

From CVOEO:

Join the Vermont Human Rights Commission and Fair Housing Project of CVOEO for a special conversation with Richard Rothstein & Leah Rothstein, authors of Just Action: How to Challenge Segregation Enacted Under the Color of Law.

Just Action: How to Challenge Segregation Enacted Under the Color of Law is the groundbreaking new book that moves beyond the historical analysis of segregation as presented in Richard Rothstein's The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America, published in 2018. While The Color of Law showed how federal, state, and local governments created and reinforced neighborhood segregation, Just Action takes a bold step forward - offering practical strategies to tear down these systemic barriers.

For more information visit: https://fairhousingmonthvt.org/

From Mark Hughes:

In 1868, the Fourteenth Amendment of the U.S. constitution, the second reconstruction amendment, was created to provide citizenship, equal protection, due process, and certain privileges and immunities for the formerly enslaved. Over the past 155 years the Equal Protection Clause has faced backlash and resistance and has scarcely fulfilled its promise of equal protection to us Black folks. Now the Equal Protection Clause is being turned against us, challenging corrective and reparative economic policies designed to correct what government policies have caused. Is this Backwards Day?

It is the state's responsibility to protect us where the federal government won't. We must amend the constitution to make it so. Let's run a sanity check on this with a legal perspective. Peter, where you at?

Host Rev. Mark Hughes, Executive Director of the Vermont Racial Justice Alliance, chats with Peter Teachout, a Professor of Law, Constitutional Law, at Vermont Law School.

For more information visit: VTRacialJusticeAlliance.org

From Mark Hughes:

Host Rev. Mark Hughes, Executive Director of the Vermont Racial Justice Alliance, discusses Demographics. 

Demographics is defined as “statistical data relating to the population and particular groups within it" (Oxford Dictionary). Systemic racism is a political and economic divide along racial lines. Mitigating systemic racism requires us to measure various outcomes by race population demographics. When the governor opened his State-of-the-State with the word “demographics”, you can imagine our excitement! After all, racism is a public health emergency, right? But wait...

For more information visit: VTRacialJusticeAlliance.org | vtjp.org

From Mark Hughes:

Host Rev. Mark Hughes, Director of the Vermont Racial Justice Alliance, discusses issues affecting Black Folks and Black Folks effecting change. There is a matter that should all be deeply concerning to all Vermonts and we have grappled with it for far too long – the racial disparities that exist in all systems of state government. The Attorney General and the Executive Director of the Human Rights Commission acknowledged this in a report 6 years ago!

For more information visit: VTRacialJusticeAlliance.org