PRRAC — Connecting Research to Advocacy
Poverty & Race Research Action Council
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By Travis Waldron, ThinkProgress
More than 40 years after the passage of Title IX mandated equal gender access to scholastic sports, minority girls still face a striking disparity in their available athletic opportunities across the country, a new study of high school sports in 13 states found.
The Poverty & Race Research Action Council (PRRAC) is a civil rights law and policy organization based in Washington, D.C. Our mission is to promote research-based advocacy strategies to address structural inequality and disrupt the systems that disadvantage low-income people of color. PRRAC was founded in 1989, through an initiative of major civil rights, civil liberties, and anti-poverty groups seeking to connect advocates with social scientists working at the intersection of race and poverty…Read More
