racial justice
Ending ethnic discrimination
Racial justice is the principle that people of all races should be treated fairly and have equal access to opportunities, resources, and legal protections.
The term often appears in discussions of systemic inequality and efforts to address historical discrimination: The organization advocates for racial justice in housing and education.
Unlike racial equality, which emphasizes sameness of treatment, racial justice may imply corrective measures to remedy past wrongs.
- civil rightsGuaranteed individual legal protections
- equal opportunityUnbiased chance for all
- equal protectionUniform legal treatment
- LGBTQ+ rightsProtections for sexual minorities
- equalitySame status for all
truth commissions · activism · sentencing reform · intersectionality · civil rights legislation · anti-discrimination · reparations · voices · protests · mass incarceration · human rights · affirmative action · color blind · white privilege · implicit bias · accountability · liberation · reform
- social issuesinequality, racism, poverty, illiteracy, homelessness
- activismboycotts, activists, activist, advocate, demonstrating
- Modern AmericaCOVID-19, pandemic, Great Recession, 9/11, Iraq War
- social causesfeminism, charity, environmentalism, volunteering, pacifism
- Black AmericaBlack churches, NAACP, civil rights activism, Jim Crow, HBCUs
- civil rightsequal protection, equal rights, Civil Rights Act, right to life, Voting Rights Act
racial justiceracial injustice
Bias against ethnic groups
racism · racial oppression · white supremacy · racial discrimination · systemic racism
racial justiceslavery
Ownership of people
Ku Klux Klan · lynching · racial terror · colonialism · genocide