Continuing Stain: The Racist Legacy of Chuck Stuart
A community conversation on policing, prosecution, reckoning, and releasing people from prison.
Sat., January 25th at the Unitarian Universalist Urban Ministry in Roxbury
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An interactive portrait of CHHIRJ’s programmatic work in 2019
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Please GiveAmicus Brief with NAACP LDF
We urge the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court to determine the police seizure in this case from the perspective of a reasonable Black teenager. The experience of being policed as a young Black male in Roxbury affects whether he would feel “free to leave” when confronted by the police.
read moreCollective Resistance in the Courthouse
How Communities Are Contesting Mass Incarceration
November 12th at Harvard Law School
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Charles Hamilton Houston Institute
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Learn More About CHHIRJHouston / Marshall Plan
Our nation’s communities of color have been devastated by decades of disinvestment. How do we rebuild?
Learn More About This ProjectRead the most recent academic and policy research as well as innovative solutions to the individual and community damage wrought by decades of underdevelopment.