By Cedric Ricks, Communications Associate, National Fair Housing Alliance, Nearly 46 years ago Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. led a 1966 summer march in Chicago’s Marquette Park demanding fair…
In recognizing January 11th as Human Trafficking Awareness Day, Race-Talk has invited three experts on trafficking in persons to share their thoughts. They have chosen to address a little-examined…
By Crystal DeBoise, Most discussions of trafficking in persons elicit images of a young immigrant woman in peril. And while such images correctly remind us of the vulnerable situations…
When a person is trafficked, he or she experiences some type of force, fraud, or coercion in a work setting. Trafficking is about living in a climate of fear.…
Arizona’s SB 1070 has left a path of destruction in its wake – harming families, immigrant communities, and various state economies, especially agribusinesses and farms. Georgia, Utah, Indiana, South…
By Sharif Rasheed, Bethe1change.com, When I started reading and researching after many years of being lied to in order to pacify me, I started to learn the truth. Not opinion,…
In his speech at the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum, Attorney General Eric Holder recognized the primacy of the right to vote: The right to vote is not only…
The High Cost of a Free Voter ID
In his speech at the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum, Attorney General Eric Holder recognized the primacy of the right to vote: The right to vote is…
The Problem with Libertarianism, Revisited
After a spate of new libertarian-leaning organizations appeared at Ohio State’s student involvement fair last year, I critiqued some of the precepts of Libertarianism and speculated as…
Black youth are presumed guilty
I live in Philadelphia in Center City, ground zero for a series of attacks dubbed “flash mobs” by the media. Since 2009, small groups of black teens…
Report from Haiti: Where’s the money?
Broken and collapsed buildings remain in every neighborhood. Men pull oxcarts by hand through the street. Women carry 5 gallon plastic jugs of water on their heads,…
Ten reasons why UNESCO should cancel the UNESCO-Obiang Prize
This week the Executive Board of the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) is meeting in Paris and is again considering the implementation of a highly…
Human Trafficking Awareness Day: Searching for Innovative Solutions
In recognizing January 11th as Human Trafficking Awareness Day, Race-Talk has invited three experts…
Human Trafficking of Immigrant Transgender Women: Hidden in the Shadows
By Crystal DeBoise, Most discussions of trafficking in persons elicit images of a young…
Building Effective Anti-Trafficking Efforts: Drivers as Allies
When a person is trafficked, he or she experiences some type of force, fraud,…
State Anti-Immigrant Laws and Human Trafficking
Arizona’s SB 1070 has left a path of destruction in its wake – harming…
Modern slavery in your backyard
According to Free the Slaves Organization, there are currently 27 million people who are…
What can we learn from the Dominique Strauss-Kahn sexual violence case?
Sexual violence and the criminal justice system Co-authored by Melissa Sontag Broudo, Esq. attorney…
Life on the financial edge and the Anti-Prostitution Pledge
As the global economic crisis has entrenched deeply over the past few years, people…
Trafficking from a racial justice advocate’s point of view
By Ejim Dike, As a long-time racial justice advocate, I am often thinking of…
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