The Racial Justice Project is a legal advocacy organization dedicated to protecting the constitutional and civil rights of people who have been denied those rights on the basis of race and to increasing public awareness of racism and racial injustice in the areas of education, employment, political participation, and criminal justice. The Racial Justice Project's advocacy includes litigation, training, and public education.
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Testimony of Alvin Bragg Regarding The Jurisdiction Of The Civilian Complaint Review Board
Alvin Bragg
Testimony of Alvin Bragg
Co-Director of the New York Law School Racial Justice Project
The New York City Civilian Complaint Review Board
January 13, 2021
100 Church Street, 10th Floor
New York, New York 10007Regarding The Jurisdiction Of The Civilian Complaint Review Board
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DRIVING WHILE BLACK AND LATINX: Stops, Fines, Fees, and Unjust Debts
New York Law School
Between January 2016 and April 2018, New York issued almost 1.7 million driver’s license suspensions for traffic debt—nonpayments of traffic tickets and nonappearances in traffic court.1 As this paper demonstrates, traffic debt suspensions disproportionately harm communities of color in New York. Traffic debt suspensions force people to make an impossible choice: stop driving—and lose access to work, childcare, health care, food, and other basic necessities—or keep driving, and risk criminal charges, more unaffordable fines and fees, and even incarceration. License-for-payment laws ultimately create conditions that parallel modern-day debtor’s prisons. For these reasons, the New York Law School (NYLS) Racial Justice Project urges New York lawmakers to support the Driver’s License Suspension Reform Act (Senate Bill S5348A), which would end suspensions for nonpayments of traffic tickets and nonappearances in traffic court, practices which unduly target and harm communities of color.
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Testimony of Alvin Bragg Regarding the Repeal of New York Civil Rights Law Section 50-a
Alvin Bragg
Testimony of Alvin Bragg Co-Director of the New York Law School Racial Justice Project
New York Senate Standing Committee on Codes
October 17, 2019
250 Broadway
New York, NY 10007
Regarding the Repeal of New York Civil Rights Law Section 50-a
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Innovations in Food Equity: Business and Community Together
New York Law School Racial Justice Project
Food deserts are urban and rural communities with no or severely limited access to fresh, healthy, and affordable food. In the United States, approximately 23.5 million people live in food deserts. This report focuses on five for-profit grocery and food establishments that have implemented promising business initiatives to combat food deserts: (i) Brown Super Stores; (ii) Whole Foods Market; (iii) Wegmans; (iv) Juices for Life; and (v) Walmart. It dissects the initiatives that these establishments have used to provide fresh food to their communities and, as a result, how they have helped combat food deserts. By doing this, we hope to foster dialogue about how to bring positive change to food desert communities.
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Impact: Collected Essays on the Threat of Economic Inequality.
New York Law School. Impact for Public Interest Law and the Racial Justice Project.
On April 17, 2015, the Impact Center for Public Interest Law at New York Law School hosted a symposium entitled "Tackling Economic Inequality" to bring together policymakers, advocates, academics, and community members to explore some of the causes and solutions to this growing problem. The essays collected in this volume, written by leading social justice advocates, are published to stimulate continued conversation on this critically important issue.
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Brief Amicus Curiae for the National Black Law Students Association in Support of Respondent, Texas Dep’t of Housing and Community Affairs v. Inclusive Communities Project, Inc. (No. 13-1371), U.S. Supreme Court (January 2013) (with Deborah N. Archer & Erika L. Wood).
New York Law School Racial Justice Project
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Unshared Bounty: How Structural Racism Contributes to the Creation and Persistence of Food Deserts. (with American Civil Liberties Union).
New York Law School Racial Justice Project.
