Racial Discrimination
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Kerry Kennedy to Testify on Structural Racism and Police Violence
Kerry Kennedy will be speaking before the IACHR on the need for police accountability and reparations. Register to join us on Oct. 7.
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The Struggle Against Statelessness Continues
We urge the new Dominican government to restore the citizenship of denationalized Dominicans.
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Access and Opportunity
Tags Share Social and economic devastation arising from the worst global public health crisis in a century coupled with outrage over prevalent systemic racism across America has led to increasing pressure across societal sectors to do better to embrace and reflect the diversity purportedly at the heart of American values. The political world saw this…
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Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America’s Heartland
Tags Share Speakers: Jonathan Metzl received the 2020 RFK Book Award for Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America’s Heartland. With the rise of the Tea Party and the election of Donald Trump, many middle- and lower-income white Americans threw their support behind conservative politicians who pledged to make life…
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In Today’s Racial Protests, We Hear Echoes of 1968
Tags Share 5 steps the business community can take to better the lives of Black Americans We were just children in 1968 when the deaths of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Bobby Kennedy shattered our world. It was then that the drumbeat, the commitment to equality and social justice, became firmly etched in our heads…
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Statement by Kerry Kennedy on the Death of John Lewis
“John Lewis was the conscience of Congress, a civil rights icon, someone who reminded again and again and again what it means to be both compassionate and just.”
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A Final Freedom Ride with John Lewis
Following the death of John Lewis, Kerry Kennedy reflects on his incredible racial justice work and how it impacted her father’s commitment to civil rights.
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Supreme Court’s Death Penalty Decision Will Cause More Pain
Tags Share When I learned my father had been murdered, I went into my room, laid on my bed and cried. The only thing I could think to do was what he and my mother taught me and my brothers and sisters to do when times were difficult, and we couldn’t make sense of things.…
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Baby Boomers and Race: ‘Move Beyond Reflection’
We must move beyond reflection and seize this moment to stop anti-Black racism and violence for good.
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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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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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