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The Pittsburgh Symphony, Ujamaa, Planned Economies, and DEI as Class Struggle

By Justin Laing | February 12, 2025 | Non reformist reforms, Racial Capitalism

A recent article on the front page of the Pittsburgh Post Gazette (PG) headlined that the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra (PSO) was facing a $7M deficit along with a 12% increase in its costs and a drop in overall revenue of  8% when compared to the pre-pandemic 2018-19 season. Still, the… Read More >

Four Criteria for More Justice in COVID-19 Response Funds

By Justin Laing | March 21, 2020 | Critical Philanthropy

There are a number of funding programs for nonprofits coming from predominantly white led organizations in response to COVID-19, and the way systemic racial capitalism works, without a designed interruption it is a certainty these funds will benefit predominantly white led nonprofits. This is not to say the funds are… Read More >

Think again. The Equality v. Equity slide

By Justin Laing | August 17, 2019 | Diversity Inclusion Equity

I am going to be moving to this page posts I’ve written in the past but did not make it over when I changed websites. This was written in 2016, but the slide recently came up in a project I was working on and so I am thinking it’s still… Read More >