Q&A with Jasmine Gonzales Rose on How Ugly History of Reverse Freedom Rides is Repeating
Policy Office Publishes on Legal Barriers to Accountability for Racialized Police Violence
This essay examines how the indications-of-innocence standard serves as one thread in a vast invisible web of legal protections that enables racialized police misconduct.
Policy Office Publishes Public Comment Supporting Racial Data Collection from EPA Committee Nominees to Address Inequity and Increase Transparency
BU Center for Antiracist Research Releases New Report on the State of Racial and Ethnic Data Collection and Reporting
Boston, MA – June 22, 2022 – At 9 am ET, the BU Center for Antiracist Research (the “Center”) released a policy report that takes an in-depth look at the state of racial and ethnic data collection and reporting in the U.S. The report, “Toward Evidence-Based Antiracist Policymaking: Problems and Proposals for Better Racial Data […]
Data Gaps for Race and Ethnicity Are Holding Back Antiracism Efforts, New CAR Report Says
Petitioner Larry Thompson, Supported by Amicus Brief Filed by Center for Antiracist Research, Wins SCOTUS Civil Rights Case
The U.S. Supreme Court has rejected the “indications-of-innocence” standard, which clears a path for people who have been targeted by false criminal charges that are later dismissed to seek police accountability under federal civil rights law.
Telehealth’s Double Edged Sword: Bridging or Perpetuating Health Inequities?
Inadequate healthcare access is one of the factors driving health inequities among BIPOC communities. Telehealth offers an opportunity to increase healthcare access and reduce health inequities. However, according to researchers from Boston University Questrom School of Business, Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) and Boston Medical Center (BMC), telehealth has unwittingly become a “double-edged sword,” […]
New Study Finds Advance Child Tax Credits Reduced US Food Insufficiency by 26%
Congratulations to Dr. Paul Shafer and colleagues for their recent JAMA Network Open publication: ‘Association of the Implementation of Child Tax Credit Advance Payments With Food Insufficiency in US Households’. As their new cross-sectional study demonstrates, using repeated surveys of a nationally representative sample of U.S. households, the introduction of advance payments for the Child […]