Earlier this week, New Jersey Policy Perspective President Brandon McKoy outlined direct action that must be taken immediately to advance racial equity for New Jersey.  The steps include:

• Equitable state and local budgets that require the wealthy to pay their fair share and fully fund crucial investments in such building blocks of a healthy economy as quality education, reliable and accessible transportation, and safe, affordable places to live;
• Closing youth prisons that disproportionately jail children of color;
• Creating and enabling civilian police review boards in every community;
• Ending the prohibition of cannabis and the militarized War on Drugs;
• Expanding access to quality health care, especially for children and people who can become pregnant, regardless of their immigration status;
• Eliminating exclusionary zoning ordinances that effectuate redlining and fuel racist residential and educational segregation;
• Improving the health of our democracy by expanding the right to vote and reducing the influence of money in elections.

If you are asking, “What can I do to advance racial justice?” click on one or more of the links above and follow through.  To read McKoy’s full statement, click here.