PRRAC — Connecting Research to Advocacy
Poverty & Race Research Action Council
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By Halimah Abdullah and Candace King, NBC News
There is no actual barrier dividing the predominantly black and poor Baltimore neighborhood where Freddie Gray lived and ultimately died from the more affluent and white enclaves in and surrounding the city.
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
