The Illinois Supreme Court recently upheld the constitutionality of the Pretrial Fairness Act, a crucial step in ending wealth-based pretrial jailing. This landmark decision acknowledges that money bail is not a constitutional right and affirms the legislature’s authority to prohibit …
Like many, I have been anxiously anticipating and bracing myself for the decision made by the Supreme Court on Thursday to gut Affirmative Action since the oral arguments in October. The Court’s majority added to a shameful list of decisions …
The Appleseed Network, led by Texas Appleseed and New York Appleseed, recently hosted its inaugural webinar for our Virtual Roundtable Series. The event, titled “The Road to Integration: School Segregation and the Ongoing Fight for Racial Equity,” served as a …
The Appleseed Network is dedicated to reducing poverty, combating discrimination, and invigorating democracy across the United States and Mexico. We actively engage in fair housing issues and address the impact of discriminatory and segregative housing policies on various social sectors. …
The Appleseed Network’s annual meeting was held in Boston, MA on May 4-5, 2023 and hosted graciously by the Massachusetts Appleseed team. It was a much-awaited event for the entire network as it was the first all-network in-person meeting after …
Brown v Board of Education will turn 69 next month, but a Government Accountability Office report last year found that schools in America remain severely segregated across racial and socioeconomic lines, even as the US student population has grown increasingly …
The Appleseed Foundation and New York Appleseed are proud to name Maya Wiley, Raymond Lin, and Pfizer as the recipients of the 2023 Appleseed Pillars of Justice Award. The honorees’ work on school integration, health equity, and the public interest …
Thirty years ago this spring, members of the Harvard Law School Class of 1958 founded Appleseed on a simple but powerful idea: The law should be a force for good, a system that supports genuine opportunity for all. From that …
Black girls in Massachusetts are nearly four times more likely than their classmates to be suspended or expelled from school. To provide communities with the information they need to advocate for more just school systems, Massachusetts Appleseed teamed up with …
From all of us here at Appleseed, THANK YOU for all the time, talent, and treasure you gave this year to help build a better world. Because of people like you, families across the United States and Mexico today are more …
