Over the past two decades, debt buyers—companies that buy old debts for pennies on the dollar—have filed millions of debt collection lawsuits and obtained millions of default judgments, against low-income New Yorkers, mostly those in predominantly Black and brown neighborhoods.

Foundation President Jerry Hartman recounts his 1972 visit to Philadelphia, Mississippi, the site of the murders of three civil rights workers in June 1964.

In light of the recent argument at the Supreme Court in the Dobbs case, Gender Justice discusses the implications of the Supreme Court’s potential ruling in the Dobbs case.