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Demos opposes Kavanaugh's confirmation because it would threaten equal justice for people of color and the future of racial equity.

The Black Futures Lab’s Black Census Project is the largest survey of Black people conducted in the United States since Reconstruction.

Fully engaging and including Black people of all genders will strengthen the political power of Black communities.

An Analytical Framework

Empirical data showing policymakers, organizers, and progressives that there is clear public support for the notion that racism is a divide-and-conquer tactic creating distrust, undermining belief in government, and causing economic pain for everyone, of every color.

How the dominance of politics by the affluent & business undermines economic mobility in America

Rebuilding American Democracy in an Era of Crisis

26 state policies for a race-forward, populist agenda to empower all Americans.

Spoiler alert: they do not. Rules work in corporations favor and against workers.

A coalition of Black and brown community organizations and activists helped enact a first-of-its-kind democracy dollars program in Seattle.

Until voters and elected leaders in Baltimore, Maryland took action to bring small donor public financing to their elections, big money in politics was a growing problem in the city.

How social exclusion blocks Black people from full participation and power in the United States.

From March through May, New Florida Majority Education Fund surveyed over 21,000 Floridians to ask how the pandemic was affecting their lives and well-being. This report presents our findings from those surveys.

LGB+ Voices in the 2019 Black Census

Once an institution accepts the premise that all people, regardless of their background, have the potential to thrive and contribute to the success of an organization, they can begin to recognize systemic disparities and gaps as flaws to be addressed.

More than 1.2 million African Americans in 175 communities across the country have councils that do not descriptively represent them

All money in politics events should be planned in a way that elevates the most marginalized voices.

If we do not close voter turnout gaps, our democracy is destined to become less and less representative in the coming decades.

The dominance of big money in our politics makes it far harder for people of color to exert political power and effectively advocate for their interests as both wealth and power are consolidated by a small, very white, share of the population.

Efforts to change the long-standing practice of counting every individual in the country for the purposes of drawing legislative districts would reduce the political power of—and the resources provided to—Black and brown people.