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Robert Bracamontes, Acjachemen Nation, Juaneno Tribe, will be a panelist at the July 7 Whittier Narrows Listening Session.
Click here to see the Policy Brief of diverse allies on America’s Great Outdoors and Equal Justice.
In addition to the Whittier Narrows listening session, the following America’s Great Outdoor events will take [...]

The City Project’s Robert Garcia writes:
Thurgood Marshall dedicated his life to achieve equal justice for all. He pioneered public interest, civil rights, and constitutional litigation and advocacy. He founded the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc. (where I served as Western Regional Counsel), which served as a model for all other legal defense funds [...]

The Convergence Partnership
Healthy People Healthy Places Webinar Series
A PATH FROM HOPE TO CHANGE: IMPLEMENTING EQUITY-FOCUSED PRINCIPLES AND STRATEGIES

JUNE 29, 11:00-12:00pm PDT (1-2 pm CDT, 2-3 pm EDT)
Join us for a webinar on Implementing Equity-Focused Principles and Strategies. This webinar is the third in a five-part series titled “Healthy People, Healthy Places,” offered by the [...]

In response to community demands led by The City Project, Concerned Citizens of South Central Los Angeles, California Pan Ethnic Health Network (CPEHN), and PolicyLink, as well as hard hitting coverage in the Los Angeles Times, the city of Los Angeles held a ground breaking – again – for the Ascot Hills Park in East [...]

“[M]minorities edged closer to becoming a majority of the nation’s youngest children. More than 500 of the nation’s more than 3,000 [counties] now fall in that category. . .  .  As of July 1, 2009, racial and ethnic groups other than non-Hispanic whites accounted for 48.6 percent of all births and 48.3 percent of children [...]

Ben Schott, New York Times, www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/06/10/opinion/20100611_SCHOTT.html

These twelve books are discussed in Melvyn Bragg’s Twelve Books that Changed the World and an article in The Sunday Times.

Principia Mathematica by Isaac Newton
Married Love by Marie Stopes
Magna Carta
*Book of Rules of Association Football*
On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
On the Abolition of the Slave Trade by William Wilberforce
A Vindication of the Rights of [...]

From The New York Times:
[T]oday, the practice of excluding blacks and other minorities from Southern juries remains widespread and, according to defense lawyers and a new study by the Equal Justice Initiative, a nonprofit human rights and legal services organization in Montgomery, Ala., largely unchecked. . . .
While jury makeup varies widely by jurisdiction, the [...]

The City Project’s friends and allies at GreenInfo Network report on their new ParkInfo Web Mapping:

Special MapLines Edition

ParkInfo.org, our public parks web portal, has just undergone a  major and exciting makeover and we wanted to let you know about it, with this special edition of MapLines!
The new ParkInfo features outstanding and fast-drawing new [...]