Perspectives on The Center for Racial Equality

The Arent Fox Center for Racial Equality is pleased to announce a partnership with Howard University School of Law’s Thurgood Marshall Civil Rights Center to produce policy recommendations and research papers addressing institutionalized racism in the United States.

Over the past few weeks, this country has watched and relived the traumatic, public death of George Floyd. Today’s much-anticipated verdict – holding Derek Chauvin guilty on all charges – was a step towards healing.

On March 22, the Chicago suburb of Evanston became the first municipality in the Country to approve a government reparations program for eligible Black residents of the City.

The shooting of eight people in the Atlanta area earlier this week – including six women of Asian descent – requires all of us to pause and focus on the alarming rise in hate crimes against members of the Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) community since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Partner Eva Pulliam recently spoke with Above the Law’s The Jabot podcast about Arent Fox's Center for Racial Equality.

Arent Fox is announcing the launch of The Center for Racial Equality, an organization dedicated to advancing racial justice by using legal, policy, and advocacy tools to help create a more fair and equitable society.

Representative John Lewis, the Civil Rights activist committed to non-violent protest, champion of racial equality, and the “conscience of Congress” died on July 17. He was 80.

The murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Ahmaud Arbery and the weaponization of race against Chris Cooper are heartbreaking reminders that many Americans, including colleagues at Arent Fox, have to carry with them every day the added burden of being a person of color in our country.