In October 1991, the First National People of Color Environmental Leadership Summit brought together close to 300 Black, Latino, American Indian, Pacific Islander, Asian American, and other activists ...
The deal’s plan to spend hard-earned tax dollars in the name of equity undermines America’s foundational principle of equality. Democrats in Congress and the Biden administration have embarked ...
If there is one principle that is cardinal in the Constitution today it is the principle of equality, followed by that of equity and finally freedom or liberty. In the Bill of Rights, these principles ...
It's often instructive to compare entries in older and newer versions of Black's Law Dictionary—and on subjects I work on, the older ones are usually better. An example is the entry for equity.
The May 25, 2020 murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis sparked a civil rights explosion. It ignited pushes to demilitarize the police, reallocate police over-funding to necessary social services, end ...
Equity’s maxims have many jurisprudential functions, one critical function being to sinew the equitable principles that regulate the law of trusts. A court that is saddled with sorting out the rights, ...
With our country's growing awareness of its own deep and systemic inequities prompting long-overdue reflections about how institutions need to change, the social sector is asking important questions ...