Patch.com's Tina Greenberg reports
On Friday, January 15, 2021, 6:30 PM, Join us for Kabbalat Shabbat Service in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King. Jr, via Facebook Live
Guest speaker: Ryan Haygood, Esq., President & CEO, New Jersey Institute for Social Justice, will speak on "Where Do We Go From Here: Choosing Community Over Chaos"
Ryan P. Haygood is a nationally respected civil rights lawyer. As President and CEO of the New Jersey Institute for Social Justice, he leads a majority-women of color team of racial justice advocates whose cutting-edge work – powered by grassroots organizing, research, writing, policy and legislative advocacy, and litigation – seeks to build reparative systems that create wealth, justice and power for Black, Latina/Latino and other people of color in New Jersey.
https://patch.com/new-jersey/livingston/tba-kabbalat-shabbat-service-honor-dr-martin-luther-jr
Under Ryan's leadership, the Institute's advocacy has led to the historic restoration of the vote to 83,000 people on parole and probation, a right New Jersey previously denied since 1844; automatic and online voter registration; ending prison-based gerrymandering for state legislative redistricting; a $15 minimum wage; a package of racial equity apprenticeship laws to expand New Jersey's workforce; the development of Newark 2020 – a Newark initiative to connect 2,020 Newark residents to employment by 2020; the reporting of COVID-19 racial data; and New Jersey becoming the first state to test all of its incarcerated youth for COVID-19.
Established in 1999 by the Alan V. and Amy Lowenstein Foundation, the New Jersey Institute of Social Justice provides a dynamic and independent voice for change necessary to create just, vibrant, and inclusive urban communities throughout New Jersey.
For more information, please go to www.tbanj.org or email [email protected]
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