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How Biden’s Plan for a Public Credit Registry Will Build Economic Power for Black and Brown Communities

Credit reports and scores control access to public goods people need. Yet, in the midst of a global pandemic and economic collapse, remaking the nation’s credit reporting system is not the top concern. 
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November 16, 2020
Amy Traub
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To Keep His Promises to the Black Community, Pres. Biden Must Prioritize Building an Inclusive Democracy

While Biden inspires hope, our democracy has let down Black communities for far too long.
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Joshua Harmon
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Black Workers at Amazon Warehouse Have the Power to Keep Making History

The hardships faced by Amazon’s warehouse employees are well known and now Black workers in Alabama are organizing, challenging power, and leading the efforts to become unionized.
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Amy Traub
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Congress Must Pass H.R.1 Now

Congress must act swiftly to put transformative pro-democracy legislation at the top of the agenda.
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Adam Lioz
Laura Williamson

The Coronavirus Will Ruin Your Credit Score

"To say that people post-crisis, as they try to rebuild their lives, have to carry the impact of this is just another round of disadvantage and discrimination.”
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David Dayen
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How Learning from the Haitian Revolution will Help Us Win Today

Look to Haitian history for a blueprint of how to change our current reality, dream big, and unapologetically craft a new future that is a truly inclusive democracy.
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Christelle Prophete

155 Civil Rights Organizations Urge Immediate Congressional Action on Voting Rights

Enacting these critical legislative measures would protect the integrity of the November election and counter the historical disenfranchisement of communities of color and voters with disabilities in America.
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Season Finale: Building Power with DEMOS President K. Sabeel Rahman and Recognizing a Historic Win in North Carolina

Sabeel talks about the inspiration behind his books, his take on the fight for constitutional law to be applied equitably, and the important reconciliatory work that will be essential beyond the November election.
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Chevon Drew
Hiba Elyass
K. Sabeel Rahman

Sabeel Rahman of Demos is the Optimist We All Need to Hear From

Eric and Sabeel have a free-flowing conversation about dismantling institutions and systems that are responsible for ongoing inequality in race, gender, and class.
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Eric Brown
Kirk Brown
K. Sabeel Rahman
Executive Action Plan

115 Groups Sign Presidential Policy Agenda Recommending Executive Actions on Race, Climate & Pollution

The policy platform outlines actions that address environmental justice, just recovery from disasters, equity accounting in climate policy, and energy democracy.
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Florida Advocates Expand Access to Voter Registration and Vote-by-Mail, Expand Voter Education through Settlement of COVID-19 Elections Case

“The agreements we won in this case will protect Black and brown voters and all Floridians, ensuring they have multiple safe voting options and can be heard this November.”
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Rep. John Lewis (image by Lorie Shaull)

Our Statement on the Passing of Civil Rights Leader, Rep. John Lewis

Rep. Lewis was the living embodiment of persistence and courage.
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K. Sabeel Rahman

Civil rights lawsuits alone won’t give us the America we want

Besides, focusing narrowly on individual instances of discrimination often leaves in place workplace policies and the power structures that perpetuate systemic discrimination against Black and brown communities in particular.
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K. Sabeel Rahman

From Uprising to Reconstruction

On the superhighway to freedom, while we might be moving in different lanes and at different speeds, let’s ensure we’re all headed in the right direction to emancipation and justice.
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K. Sabeel Rahman
Dorian T. Warren