Race Forward mourns with the families and community of the ten people who were killed on Saturday, May 14, at a TOPS grocery store in Buffalo, NY, by an 18-year-old white supremacist. At this moment, it is critical we honor the lives of those killed, the people of Buffalo, and marginalized communities across this country by strengthening our work to dismantle systemic racism in all places where it exists within our culture and institutions.
During Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, Race Forward lifts up the stories, challenges, victories, and movement of AAPI communities in our limited podcast mini-series Reflections. View the series. 🎧
Learn about the work Race Forward and PolicyLink co-led with federal agency offices. This report shares observations and lessons learned, and discusses efforts that must continue to fully realize the intentions of President Biden's executive order on racial equity and move this country toward a more racially just future.
We’re hiring a filmmaker to create a short, docu-style film to be shown at our #FacingRace conference in November! It should be a love-letter to the city of Phoenix – celebrating organizers on the ground, highlighting creatives of color, uplifting BIPOC-owned businesses and more! 📽️ Details: https://bit.ly/welcometophoenix
Race Forward's Cathy Albisa and James Haslam remind us "If we understand public education is the foundation of democracy, we must organize to protect it" in their Truthout op-ed. 📰. Read the 5 minute Op-Ed and 💻 and sign up for our next #HEALTogether workshop focused on Organizing For Education Justice! Register: healtogether.org/training
Race Forward is excited to announce Facing Race: A National Conference will be hosted both in-person in Phoenix, Arizona, and online, November 17- 19! Register now, and learn how to get involved in the event.
Across the country, governmental jurisdictions are making a commitment to achieving racial equity, focusing on the power and influence of their own institutions, and working in partnership with other toward equitable solutions.
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Let us begin to equip ourselves with some of the tools, resources and analysis we need in order to actively choose racial justice, every time. Register for a virtual Building Racial Equity training. View our full training calendar.
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This guide introduces multiple actions that can strengthen and grow the influence of our public institutions, so they serve their highest purpose.
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Step-by-step toolkit for narrative change, messaging and strategic comms for social justice movements. Includes worksheets and learnings from the immigrant movement.
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This set of tools that emerged from Race Forward’s Racial Equity in the Arts Innovation Lab to help artists, arts advocates, culture bearers, and cultural workers to imagine, plan, and implement racial equity strategies in arts organizations.
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Advancing Equity in Year 2 of the Biden Administration is a guide to build the knowledge, skills, and mindsets required for racial equity throughout the federal government as follow up to the Biden Administration’s 2021 executive actions.
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“What Is Systemic Racism?” is an 8-part video series showing how racism shows up in our lives across institutions and society… yes, systemic racism is really a thing.
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This webinar series centers community power for racial justice, including movement strategy and organizing for policy change.
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Racial justice work does not end with winning the elections. We need to continue organizing and transforming policies and institutions so we can truly advance racial justice in this country.
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This video is an introduction to the past and present connections between race, colonialism, and the gender binary.
