As we enter 2026, the Center for Policy Analysis and Research (CPAR) is tracking five key areas—healthcare, immigration, technology, voting rights, and the workforce—where recent legislation, executive actions, and court rulings will have lasting impacts on Black life, economic security, and civic participation.
Read MoreUndocumented Immigration Close to Home: A Broken System in Need of Fixing
Last spring, my mother called me sobbing. My cousin was arrested in an embarrassing and dehumanizing fashion leaving work. His crime was being brought to Florida from Jamaica at eleven years old and having the bad luck of being pulled over a few days earlier for a faulty taillight.
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