Archive: racial justice
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The Good Robot: Why Technology Needs Feminism
Wednesday, April 17, 2024 | 6:00 PM EST – In-Person Event | Join us for a book talk on The Good Robot: Why Technology Needs Feminism with a panel of experts.
Categories: Event Announcements, G+JI Events
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BLM France: Black and Brown Women’s Fight for Racial Justice
WATCH VIDEO | Thursday, Sept. 29, 2022 – 5:00 PM EST – In-Person Event. Join us in welcoming Rokhaya Diallo, Maboula Soumahoro and Jean Beaman for a conversation on racial justice and police violence in France. The discussion will center the Black and Brown women leading the fight against systemic racism and violence.
Category: Lectures
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Sarie Finley
G+JI Graduate Student Fellow 2021 – Sarie Finley, J.D. Candidate, Georgetown University Law Center
Category: GJI Fellowship
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Melicia Escobar
G+JI Faculty Fellow 2021 – Melicia Escobar, Clinical Faculty Director and Doctor of Nursing Practice Student (DNP), Georgetown University School of Nursing & Health Studies
Category: GJI Fellowship
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Georgetown Law’s Sheryll Cashin Says Racial Inequality Won’t End Until We Dismantle American Residential Caste
In her latest book, Cashin, the Carmack Waterhouse Professor of Law for Civil Rights and Social Justice, describes the deliberate creation and pernicious persistence of what she calls American residential caste. Watch her explain in a new video, and read an excerpt of White Space, Black Hood: Opportunity Hoarding and Segregation in the Age of Inequality.
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Georgetown Law Clinic Targets Legal Doctrine that Allows Modern-Day Workplace Discrimination on Basis of Race, Gender
A Georgetown Law professor and students are taking aim at an entrenched legal doctrine — known as the “adverse employment action” doctrine — that courts are using to allow employers to continue to discriminate against workers on the basis of race, sex and other legally protected traits.
Category: News
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Georgetown Launches Racial Justice Institute With Multidisciplinary Leadership
Georgetown announced on February 2nd, 2021, the establishment of a new Racial Justice Institute (RJI) and the hire of three faculty members in the areas of law, the arts, health and public policy who will lead the institute’s interdisciplinary work that pushes the frontiers of knowledge about race, equity and action.
The Racial Justice Institute at Georgetown will serve as a hub where scholars, activists and thought leaders may work across the academic, policy and advocacy spaces and serve as a place to seed and inspire the next generation of scholars and leaders addressing the vestiges of enslavement and well-being of Black, Indigenous and people of color.
Category: News