United States
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Investors Commit to Addressing Systemic Racism
In the wake of continuing police brutality against Black people and widespread protests, investors from the Racial Justice Investing Coalition, including RFK Human Rights, have called for action.
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A High School Journalist Dug Into Suspensions of Black Students. What She Found Won an Award.
Tags Share Nina Lavezzo-Stecopoulos and the co-editor of their high school newspaper, The Little Hawk, were talking to students in November about what they disliked about Iowa City High School when she sensed something was off. “That day I had a lot of good conversations about wrongful suspensions and racism” by the staff members who…
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Kerry Kennedy: “We Need to Seize This Moment”
Tags Share On June 5, 1968, U.S. presidential hopeful Robert F. Kennedy gave his final speech—about institutional and anti-Black violence—before he was assassinated. Speaking to CNN’s Don Lemon, Kerry Kennedy said her father’s words on an issue “that has been in the country … for 401 years” are still relevant to those protesting today. “We…
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Winners of the 2020 RFK Book and Journalism Awards
At a time when journalists are facing unprecedented hostility and violence, we recognize and celebrate their critical role in upholding our democracy.
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RFK Human Rights, Michigan Liberation Free People From Jail as Coronavirus Concerns Rise
Emptying jails must be a crucial public health priority to stem the spread of the virus.
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Statement by Kerry Kennedy on the murder of George Floyd
Police forces have long been used as a tool of white supremacy. We desperately need accountability. We need less, not more, funding for law enforcement.
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UC San Diego Extension Teams Up with RFK Human Rights
Tags Share University of California San Diego Extension will be teaming up with Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights’ Speak Truth to Power program as its first partner on the West Coast. The collaboration will expand the reach of Speak Truth to Power’s human rights education resources into more classrooms across the United States, infusing invaluable…
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Statement on Trump’s Executive Order Suspending Immigration
Tags Share At a time when our leaders should be bringing this country together, Donald Trump continues to sow division and hate. His call to suspend immigration to the U.S. is nothing more than a shameless attempt to blame immigrants for his own administration’s failure to competently manage the coronavirus crisis. Xenophobia should have no…
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CBS: Activists Rush to Bail Out People in Jails Across the Country Amid Coronavirus Threat
Tags Share As experts warn how quickly the coronavirus can spread inside jails, community bond funds are working overtime to free people from pretrial detention and looking to outside organizations to help ramp up their efforts. One of these groups is Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights. The organization announced it will be providing extra financial…
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RFK Human Rights and Texas Partners Free People From Jail as Coronavirus Spreads
Any rational response to the pandemic must prioritize decreasing jail populations before it’s too late.
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No Place in NYS Budget for Bail Reform Reversals
As crowded jail conditions eliminate the ability to practice necessary social distancing, it would not only be a disservice to the New York public, but a danger, to tuck rollbacks to the state’s bail reform law into the FY2021 spending plan.
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