PRRAC — Connecting Research to Advocacy
Poverty & Race Research Action Council
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By Emily Badger, Washington Post
The civil rights movement knocked down voting restrictions, segregated lunch counters, employment discrimination and whites-only public schools. But fair housing has remained a far more elusive front for the last half-century. American communities are still deeply segregated by race. And segregation that has long divided U.S. cities is now emerging in the suburbs.
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
