Inaugural Legislative Update: February 2023

EPU’s Policy Team is actively monitoring the progress of equity-related legislation throughout the South during the 2023 legislative sessions.

2022 ANNUAL Report

Progress with Purpose: Building a More Equitable South

For EPU, 2022 was a year of strategic growth and change. Read more from the 2022 Annual Report.

NEW SURVEY RESULTS

Survey of the South: December 2022

Nearly Three Quarters of Southerners Believe U.S. Should Offer African Americans Some Form of Reparations to Address Slavery

Opportunity • Justice • Democracy

Building a more just, inclusive, and equitable South through advancing social change & racial equity

Founded by former New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu in 2018, E Pluribus Unum (EPU) is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization whose mission is to build a more equitable and inclusive South, uprooting the barriers that have long divided the region by race and class. EPU’s focus is on cultivating and empowering courageous leaders who are focused on racial equity, changing the divisive narratives that perpetuate systemic and interpersonal racism, and championing transformative policy change.

E Pluribus Unum – Latin for “out of many, one” — the motto of the U.S.

Leadership

Cultivating courageous leaders committed to realizing a vision for a more equitable, inclusive South

Policy

Accelerating change to create equal access to opportunity, democracy, safety, and protection under the law at the local, state, and federal levels

Research

Identifying where inequities exist, their structural cause, and the environments and conditions that perpetuate them

Narrative Change

Shifting people’s attitudes and behaviors by encouraging open, honest discussions to change narratives that preserve systemic and interpersonal racism

"We will remain trapped in a cycle of anger and hopelessness until more white Americans come to grips with our past."

– Mitch Landrieu, Founder & Former President of E Pluribus Unum, Former Mayor of New Orleans, LA