The archive
Curated accounts of racial injustice. Public-domain narratives from the Federal Writers' Project (1936–1938) sit alongside contemporary contributions — every entry carries the source it was retrieved from.
An illustration of how 'use it or lose it' voter-roll maintenance operates, drawn from the Brennan Center's documentation of post-Shelby purge procedures.
Composite scenario — platform staff, drawn from Brennan Center documentation
An illustration of how an automated hiring system can entrench the same callback gap documented in human-screening audit studies.
Composite scenario — platform staff, drawn from EEOC algorithmic-bias guidance
An illustration of how dismissal of Black patients' pain operates, drawn from CDC pregnancy-mortality data and Hoffman et al.'s 2016 study on racial bias in pain assessment.
Composite scenario — platform staff, drawn from CDC data + Hoffman et al. 2016
An illustration of how name-based hiring discrimination operates, drawn from the Bertrand & Mullainathan resume audit study and its twenty-year replication record.
Composite scenario — platform staff, drawn from Bertrand & Mullainathan and Quillian et al.
An illustration of how rental discrimination operates today, drawn from documented HUD enforcement patterns and the Urban Institute's paired-tester studies.
Composite scenario — platform staff, drawn from documented HUD patterns
An illustration of how documented racial gaps in pain treatment operate at the clinical level, drawn from the Hoffman et al. PNAS study.
Composite scenario — platform staff, drawn from Hoffman et al. (PNAS, 2016)
An illustration of how environmental-justice communities encounter permitting hearings, drawn from the EPA Title VI complaint record.
Composite scenario — platform staff, drawn from EPA Title VI complaint record
An illustration of how implicit bias shapes school discipline, drawn from the US Department of Education Office for Civil Rights data and the Yale Child Study Center research on preschool expulsion.
Composite scenario — platform staff, drawn from US DoE OCR data + Gilliam (2016)
An illustration of how 'pretext stops' operate, drawn from the Stanford Open Policing Project's analysis of 100M traffic stops.
Composite scenario — platform staff, drawn from Stanford Open Policing Project
An illustration of how the school-discipline gap operates, drawn from Department of Education Civil Rights Data Collection findings.
Composite scenario — platform staff, drawn from US DOE Civil Rights Data Collection
An illustration of how voter-ID list-maintenance regimes can disenfranchise eligible voters, drawn from documented Shelby County v. Holder aftermath patterns.
Composite scenario — platform staff, drawn from Brennan Center post-Shelby reporting
An illustration of how blockbusting operated in Chicago in the 1960s, drawn from Beryl Satter's documentary record in ``Family Properties``.
Composite scenario — platform staff, drawn from Beryl Satter's documentation