The administration has also undertaken a comprehensive approach to advancing equity that has shaped its policies at every level.
At the same time, there is more work to do to build on this progress—to grow wages, reduce debt, and close the racial wealth gap, improve health and education outcomes, secure more affordable housing, and more. These challenges occur as extremists have engaged in a steady effort to turn back the clock on progress by twisting the meaning and purpose of bedrock civil rights protections for race, gender, and equal opportunity, and stigmatizing investments to expand opportunity, all in an attempt to backslide, including encompassing the right-wing manifesto that is Project 2025. Now, these extremists are ramping up their attacks in attempts to take advantage of an uncertain political and policy climate.
As progressives meet this moment and plan to win the future, this conversation will focus on the fiercely urgent policy and community work we as Black community leaders must continue to do with partners at all levels to advance progress—and the strategies that must be employed now to turn back the revisionist assault taking shape today. This is a moment of opportunity. How will we seize it?
On Monday, August 12, join the Center for American Progress and the National Partnership for Women & Families on Martha’s Vineyard for a timely and important conversation exploring a 2025 agenda that advances an inclusive economy, racial equity, and justice for Black people in America.
