The Workers Center for Racial Justice (WCRJ) and its sister 501c4 organization, the Center for Racial and Gender Equity (CREG) is a grassroots organization founded in 2012 by a group of unemployed and formerly incarcerated Black workers. Our core work revolves around organizing unemployed, low-wage and formerly incarcerated Black workers for racial and economic justice. Our mission is to eliminate the barriers to sustainable and living wage employment for Black workers, strengthen economic security for Black families, work to end the over- criminalization prevalent in the Black community, and advance a progressive pro- worker agenda that will lead to inclusion and prosperity for all marginalized workers. While a majority of our leaders are African American, our intended audience is individuals of the African diaspora who we broadly identify as Black Workers.

The overarching goals for the WCRJ are to:

• build a base of unemployed, low-wage and formerly incarcerated Black workers with critical consciousness and deep analysis of structural racialization;
• develop and advance a set of policies at the metropolitan and state level that seek to eliminate persistent racial inequality in the areas of employment and criminal justice;
•  improve the working conditions and earnings in low-wage job sectors;
• directly challenge implicit bias associated with Black workers in order to change the narrative about them; and
•  shift the public discourse on race, and advance a grassroots racial justice agenda.

The overarching goals for the CREG are to:

•  Build power of the Black women most directly impacted by the intersections of violently racialized and gendered capitalism;
• Advance a radical vision of liberation through leadership development and political engagement;
• run grassroots policy and electoral campaigns;
•  engaging Black voters;
•  build Black women's leadership to advance a legislative agenda and candidates that explicitly support Black women's Liberation.

The best way to help us win good jobs for Black communities, get economic security for Black families, end the state-sanctioned violence against Black bodies, and achieve overall Black Liberation is to join us. Your active membership and your financial support is the fuel that keeps the bus for Black Liberation running. Through timely alerts, meetings with decision makers, public hearings, trainings to expand your political consciousness, and support to run for office yourself, we will give you opportunities to make your voice heard loud and clear on issues you care about most.

Check out WC4RJ's and  CREG's website to learn more. 

To become a member, please fill out the application form below.