The United States has a longstanding legacy of systematic racism that dates back centuries. This pervasive system has impacted our public policy, laws, and interactions with the communities around us. My time in the military has allowed me to see firsthand how the barrier of racial discrimination can be brought down within institutions. I hope to see the same change across the United States.

Brookings has taken powerful stances on race, equality, and civil rights, and will continue to do so in the present and the future. We are in the position to produce impactful scholarship that creates a difference in the issues of race and discrimination.

Brookings is a nonpartisan institution, but it is not values-neutral.

Like Trumans military desegregation order, leadership against racism starts at the top

A note from Brookings President John R. Allen on the release of our workforce demographic data

Not just a typographical change: Why Brookings is capitalizing Black

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The US military has made progress in ending racial discrimination. The rest of our country must as well. - Brookings Institution