Alliance for Reparations, Reconciliation, and Truth
The Equal Justice Society (EJS), California Black Power Network (CBPN), and six former members of the California Reparations Task Force – Dr. Cheryl Grills, Lisa Holder, Dr. Jovan Scott Lewis, Assemblymember Reggie Jones-Sawyer, Senator Steven Bradford, and Donald Tamaki – formed a new collaboration called the Alliance for Reparations, Reconciliation, and Truth.
The Equal Justice Society is transforming the nation’s consciousness on race through law, social science, and the arts. Our legal strategy broadens conceptions of present-day discrimination to include unconscious and structural bias.
I’m sending this poem to commemorate the Brown decision. In that it predates the Montgomery Bus Boycott, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Loving v Virginia decision, I believe it was the first Supreme…
It has been said that the mother is a child’s first teacher. This was a great truth for me. Throughout my life, my mother imparted lessons that remain the cornerstones for most of my guiding principles.…
Equal Justice Society President Lisa Holder delivered powerful remarks last week at the United Nations Permanent Forum on People of African Descent held April 16-19, 2024, in Geneva, Switzerland. Lisa is a former member of the California Reparations Task Force and one…
There is no justice without planet justice. On this Earth Day, April 22, let’s pause and reflect on how the planet that sustains us is threatened by our unsustainable practices. People of color around the world…
Equal Justice Society President Lisa Holder and Board Member Donald K. Tamaki are among the reparations movement leaders interviewed in a new documentary that debuted today on abc7news.com and the station’s various streaming apps. The documentary…
Michael Tyler is the Equal Justice Society Poet-in-Residence. Many of us recall moments indelibly etched in our minds that upon reflection, transport us back to a location and circumstance with a cinematic clarity undiminished by fading…
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Lisa Holder, EJS President
The Equal Justice Society board of directors appointed Lisa Holder as the organization’s new President, succeeding Eva Paterson who co-founded EJS in 2000 and served as its President for 22 years. Eva retired on August 31.