Marion Alliance for Racial Equity

06/25/2026

06/25/2026

For everyone still insisting that “Trump hijacked the Republican Party,” Ta-Nehisi Coates has a different diagnosis.

Trump didn’t kidnap a healthy institution — he made its long‑denied racism impossible to ignore, stripping away the polite language and country‑club manners that once kept it respectable on the surface.

In Coates’s words, Trump just took the mask off.

06/24/2026

06/24/2026

"The danger of this ruling is that it creates an incentive to use the border as a place where rights are diminished."

06/24/2026

Federal student loans will undergo significant changes starting July 1. These changes will not only restructure the loan system, but also the repayment options for millions of borrowers. Some might se...

06/24/2026

Iowa Migrant Movement for Justice to cut legal services 40%-

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A major provider of immigration legal services in Iowa announced significant cuts this week, citing the loss of government investments.

06/22/2026

TDIH from Zinn Education Project- Discrimination in GI Bill's, Housing stock, Redlining live on in ripples of today's inequities and access to generational stability in housing, neighborhood building, and financial institutions.

President Roosevelt signed the Servicemen’s Readjustment Act (USA), known as the GI Bill, to provide financial aid to veterans returning from WW II. White supremacy prevented equal access to those benefits.

06/21/2026

06/20/2026

https://teenvogue.visitlink.me/0B8f1g "The two freedoms America celebrates every June stop at the same wall."

For Teen Vogue, Nicholas E. Stewart, executive director of the Justice Education Project, shares the story of meeting a young Black man who was incarcerated, its impact on him, and the significance of Juneteenth being celebrated during Pride Month as Black and brown LGBTQ+ youth continue to face disproportionate incarceration. Read the full at the link.