Dr. Mara Cecilia Ostfeld is the interim managing director at the Center for Racial Justice and a research associate professor at the Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan. She also serves as a faculty lead of the Detroit Metro Ar...
The Puerto Rico Public Opinion Lab (PR-POL) is amplifying Puerto Ricans’ political voice by conducting the island’s first large, representative panel survey. Nearly four million Americans live in Puerto Rico without formal representation in the feder...
Jun 28, 2024Listen Now: Created Equal on Detroit Public Radio
"Earlier this month, Trump made a campaign stop at 180 Church in Detroit in an attempt to appeal to both Black and Latinx voters. Today on "Created Equal" we're joined by five guests — including Mara Ostfeld, Research Director at the Center for Racia...
In 1999, filmmaker Davy Rothbart gave nine-year-old Emmanual Sanford-Durant a camera. The boy and his family began filming their daily lives in America’s most dangerous neighborhood — just 17 blocks behind the U.S. Capitol. Together, Davy and the Sanfords kept filming and collaborating for 20 years. This critically acclaimed documentary illuminates a nation’s ongoing crisis through one family’s raw, stirring and deeply personal saga.
DeAnna Smith, Sinclair Dennison, Jennifer Miller, Aiolya Zhang
This brief examines the role of family members in supporting women following incarceration. Drawing on original, qualitative survey data from 50 participants, the report reveals the extensive emotional and financial support families provide to former...
Conspiratorial thinking— or attempts to attribute significant social and political events to secret plots by powerful actors—has been a recurring feature of social history. From doubts about the moon landing to beliefs that 9/11 was an inside job, ma...
In the aftermath of crime, victims face considerable challenges. Survivors of gun violence rack up hospital bills. Rape victims seek mental health counseling and relocate to safer environments. Families of murdered loved ones plan funerals while tryi...
Calls for reparations - or actions to make amends to Black Americans for enslavement and ongoing discriminatory practices - date back to the years immediately after the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863. The “nation’s earliest architects of reparatio...
In 2019, the median White household in the U.S. had about eight times the wealth of the median Black household – $184,000 compared to $23,000, respectively. Economists have highlighted that these disparities are far from new and deeply rooted in slav...
The goals of the event were to reflect on themes from the Center's immigration policy discussion on 11/9 with Jennifer Lee, begin to process images of Haitian migrants turned away from the US border, and discuss the racial implications of US migration and refugee policy.
With Dr. Celeste Watkins-Hayes, Angela Harrelson, aunt of George Floyd and author of Lift Your Voice will share her journey into racial justice activism and her work in this space. January, 2023.
Bianca Wilson discusses LGBTQ rights in a speaker series that focuses on the historical roots and impact of race in shaping public policy as both a disciplinary field and as a course of action. October, 2022.
Inaugural Daniel H. Renberg Chair of social justice Steven Thrasher will discuss health policy in a speaker series that focuses on the historical roots and impact of race in shaping public policy as both a disciplinary field and as a course of action...
Facilitated by faculty discussant Abdul El-Sayed, a Towsley Foundation Policymaker in Residence at the Ford School, this session focuses on health equity, why it matters, and the role of policy in creating equitable outcomes.
This Masterclass in Activism brings together in conversation Johnnetta Betsch Cole and Celeste Watkins-Hayes, director of the Center for Racial Justice. October, 2021.
Racial Foundations of Public Policy is a fall 2021 virtual speaker series that focuses on the historical roots and impact of race in shaping public policy as both a disciplinary field and as a course of action. The series will bring in renowned schol...
Racial Foundations of Public Policy is a fall 2021 virtual speaker series that focuses on the historical roots and impact of race in shaping public policy as both a disciplinary field and as a course of action. The series will bring in renowned schol...
Join us for a discussion with Rebecca Carroll on her new book, Surviving the White Gaze with Beth Chimera, writing instructor at the Ford School Writing Center, moderating the discussion.
Earl Lewis, the Thomas C. Holt Distinguished University Professor of History, Afroamerican and African Studies, and Public Policy, will lead a discussion on history, reparations, and policy.
"Delivering Credit to Entrepreneurs of Color Impacted by COVID-19: Why Community Financial Institutions Are Essential", Aspen Institute, Economic Opportunities Program, featuring Dean Michael Barr
Washtenaw County Sheriff Jerry Clayton; Professor of Law Barry Friedman, New York University; and Jessica Gillooly, PhD candidate of the Ford School, in a panel moderated by David Thacher examine racial bias in emergency calls. February, 2019.
