This is a collaborative project, uniting the DuBois Bunche Center, the Census Information Center and the Center for Law and Social Justice. This project organizes research, formulates policy and mobilizes advocates in defense of voting rights and just reapportionment.

The 2010 Census Project for New Yorkers of Color

Beginning in 2000 the Census Information Center within DuBois Bunche was created to coordinate the Black Census count among African descendant communities. The information and data collected as a result of this initiative is an invaluable asset for scholars involved in research and the formulation of public policy focusing on African Americans living within the five boroughs of New York City.

The Joint Project for Justice

This collaborative project links the DuBois Bunche Center, the Center for New Leadership and Urban Solutions and the Center for Law and Social Justice. This project organizes research and proposes laws and public policies intended to reverse the disproportionate and negative impact of the prison industrial complex on the African American community and other people of color.

The Joint Project for Pan-African Development

This joint center project unifying the DuBois Bunche Center, the Brooklyn International Trade and Development Center and the International Affairs Center organizes research, policy and forums that focus on the New Partnership for African Development and the African Growth and Development Act. This project will also work to establish trade missions with Brazil and the Caribbean as part of a modern Pan African initiative designed to overcome the challenges inherent in globalization.

Seeds for Change

This project seeks to empower and mobilize a new generation of scholar activists and advocates for the promotion of progressive laws, policies and programs that are intended to resolve issues confronting urban communities throughout the African Diaspora.

 International Living Wage Project

The international living wage project is a special initiative of the DuBois Bunche Center and the International Affairs Center at Medgar Evers College.  The international living wage project seeks to mobilize labor leaders, human rights advocates, scholar activist, religious leaders and public officials for the promotion of laws and treaties that would establish an international living wage (minimum wage) throughout the developing world. An international living wage would enhance existing human rights covenants by reforming the core standards that define economic security in the current international human rights treaties, and the covenants developed by The Group of Eight and The Britton Institutions.  An international living wage would serve as a progressive solution for those impoverished and developing societies that are seeking to enhance opportunities for social mobility and protection from the excesses of globalization.  The center believes that this initiative is in keeping with the Spirit and legacy of Ambassador Ralph Bunche and Dr. DuBois.

The Thurgood Marshall Plan

The Thurgood Marshall Plan is a proposal created by the DuBois Bunche Center that would complement the Economic Stimulus Package of President Barack Obama.  The Thurgood Marshall Plan would target a substantial percentage of the resources from American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to a new model for workforce development that would reduce the chronic unemployment impacting African American and Latinos in our urban centers.

Solutions Journal
Coinciding with the centennial celebration of the founding of the Niagara Movement, the NAACP and the Crisis Magazine the DuBois Bunche Center will launch a new journal called Solutions. This journal will serve as a medium for the articulation and promotion of solutions to issues confronting urban communities throughout the African Diaspora. This journal will also serve as a platform for a new generation of scholars, activists and advocates who seek to serve as transformational agents committed to moving the African Diaspora from the crises found in the 20th century to potential solutions inherent in the 21st century.
For more information email DBpolicy@mec.cuny.edu and place Solutions Journal in the subject line.