Results List
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My Brother’s Keeper 2016 Progress Report
Source: The White House
[caption id="attachment_76813" align="alignleft" width="300"] On the first anniversary of the My Brother's Keeper initiative, President Barack Obama greets Gerard Contee during a mentee lunch in the Diplomatic Reception Room of the White House, Feb. 27, 2015. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)[/caption] This is…
Resource type: Research Report
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More Caring, Less Fear
Source: Huffington Post
By Robert K. Ross, M.D., President and CEO of The California Endowment, and Tonya Allen, President and CEO of the Skillman Foundation, who are co-chairs of the Executives' Alliance to Expand Opportunities for Boys and Men of Color -- a growing network of nearly 40 national, regional…
Resource type: News
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Where I Am Going: A Campaign to Change the Conversation About Stop-and-Frisk
Source: Communities United for Police Reform
Communities United For Police Reform, an Atlantic grantee, recently launched Where I Am Going, a video series that peeks into the lives of people who've experienced NYPD's Stop-and-Frisk policy. These short documentaries gives us a glance into the lives of ordinary New Yorkers — a…
Resource type: Video
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Judge Rules NYPD Stop-and-Frisk Practices Unconstitutional, Racially Discriminatory
Source: The Atlantic Philanthropies
In a historic ruling on 12 August 2013, a federal judge found the New York City Police Department (NYPD) stop-and-frisk practices — which entail temporarily detaining people on the street, questioning them, and possibly also frisking or searching them — unconstitutional and racially discriminatory. This legal victory…
Resource type: News
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New York Communities for Change
$100,000
Resource type: Grantee
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Where I Am Going: Video Campaign to Raise Awareness and Change the Conversation about Stop-And-Frisk
Source: Communities United for Police Reform
Communities United For Police Reform, an Atlantic grantee, recently launched Where I Am Going, a video series that peeks into the lives of people who've experienced NYPD's Stop-and-Frisk policy. These short documentaries gives us a glance into the lives of ordinary New Yorkers — a…
Resource type: News
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Keeping Kids In School and Out of Court
Source: New York City School-Justice Partnership Task Force
The next mayor of New York City should quickly establish an inter-agency initiative, in collaboration with the courts, to significantly reduce suspensions, summonses, and arrests of public school students while shifting to positive approaches to discipline, according to this report from the New York City…
Resource type: Research Report
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The Sentencing Project
$450,000
Resource type: Grantee
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Judge Finds NYPD Routinely Makes Unconstitutional Street Stops Outside Clean Halls Buildings Across the Bronx
Source: New York Civil Liberties Union
The New York Civil Liberties Union is an Atlantic grantee through the Reconciliation & Human Rights programme in the United States.January 8, 2013 — The NYPD has a pattern and practice of illegally stopping innocent people in public areas outside thousands of private apartment buildings in…
Resource type: News
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Stop and Frisk: The Human Impact
Source: Center for Constitutional Rights
The New York City Police Department's aggressive stop-and-frisk practices are having a profound effect on individuals, groups and communities across the city. In this report, the Center for Constitutional Rights, an Atlantic grantee, documents some of the human stories behind the staggering statistics and sheds…
Resource type: Research Report