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As the COVID-19 pandemic continued into 2021, extending and intensifying its reach into communities, particularly in the global South, a number of concerned Atlantic Fellows came together to discuss the issue of the unequal availability of vaccines to certain populations.  After a number of discussions…

Closing Presentation of the Atlantic Fellows for Racial Equity (AFRE) Panel at The National Museum of African American History and Culture By Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot Emily Hargroves Fisher Research Professor of Education Harvard University Director of The Atlantic Philanthropies’ Board What an extraordinary evening! Thank you to…

In a Pulitzer Prize-winning series of stories, the Associated Press revealed through leaked documents that the New York Police Department (NYPD) had secretly launched a vast program of human mapping and surveillance carried out by a so-called "demographics" unit that targeted Muslim communities in New…

This case study explores how Communities United for Police Reform (CPR) successfully campaigned to end stop-and-frisk abuses in New York City. Stop-and-frisk is a practice of police officers stopping individuals they deem suspicious, questioning them, and frequently frisking them for weapons and other contraband. Out…

The new Isivivana Centre, a project of the Khayelitsha Youth and Community Centre Trust in South Africa, has its official opening Thursday, October 13. For more on the center, read the post below and see this video. Isivivana built to house organisations campaigning for social…

By Kiersten Marek Atlantic Philanthropies’ work in the area of school discipline reform is a particularly striking example of how limited-life philanthropy can play a key role in social movements for children and youth. Atlantic Philanthropies has a large and diverse giving portfolio, covering the areas…

White Americans’ strong association of crime with blacks and Latinos is related to their support for punitive policies that disproportionately impact people of color. Synthesizing two decades of research, this report from The Sentencing Project concludes that racial perceptions of crime are a central cause…

By Kavitha MedirattaIn 2007, the high school graduation rate in Baltimore, a city where the school system serves 85,000 mostly African-American and low-income students, was an abysmal 34 percent. Then Andrés A. Alonso, the chief executive for the city’s schools, took action. He revised the code…

The Advancement Project's Judith Brown Dianis on how minor infractions land Black and Latino children in major trouble Most of us have heard the term the “school-to-prison” pipeline, but perhaps you aren’t completely clear on what it is or how it works.  A new video…

This primer, funded by Atlantic and the Open Society Foundation, presents extensive statistics about the troubling police practice of stopping, questioning, and frisking pedestrians in New York City.The NumbersData show stops tend to be concentrated in a handful of police precincts and that the vast…