Social Justice

This page features news and research related to social justice topics at Columbia University.

As Intersectionality Matters! enters its third season, Columbia News checks in with Kimberlé Crenshaw on why it is more important than ever.

Our country is in the midst of a reckoning with race. Columbia professors discuss how our current situation is reflected in Black History Month.

The COVID pandemic exacerbated poverty in the United States, and the Biden administration should take significant steps to support those in need.

As we observe Black History Month, Columbia News looks back at Black Columbians who made history through their activism.

Maternal mortality and morbidity is becoming a public health crisis in the United States. A multi-disciplinary team from Columbia aims to address this problem.

As 2020 winds to a close, 'Columbia News' looks back on seven podcast episodes from across Columbia University's campuses that had an impact on us this year. 

What stories grabbed the attention of our readers in 2020? The results were pretty surprising. We invite you to take a look back.

An interactive GSAPP workshop charts a path for Columbia’s role in advancing environmental and climate equity in New York’s neighborhoods.

Columbia School of Social Work’s Courtney Cogburn spoke with the author about his book, what it means to be antiracist, and the role of universities in helping to combat racism.

A new GSAPP book examines the discipline’s role in the legacies of racialized coercion in the United States.

This was—and is—an important step in dismantling the “Doctrine of Discovery” that has always plagued the U.S. legal system.

The Center for Justice and the Tamer Center have teamed up to teach coding and job skills to individuals who were incarcerated.