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Dear John,
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This month, in the backdrop of President Biden signing his second
historic executive order on racial equity
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, Race Forward visited the White House to record an episode of Momentum:
A Race Forward Podcast.
This landmark episode of Momentum
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featured Chiraag Bains , who sat down with our team towards the end of
his tenure as Deputy Assistant to the President and Deputy Director of
the Domestic Policy Council for Racial Justice and Equity, to talk about
truly groundbreaking racial justice work actively happening across the
federal government.
Listen on Apple Podcasts
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In this in-depth interview
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, Chiraag talks about the Biden Administration's deep commitment to
racial equity –– and the significance of President Biden signing
Executive Order 13985
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on his first day in office, and how the work over the first two years
set the stage for Executive Order 14091
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, which further strengthens the administration's commitment through
financial investment and working with community partnerships on racial
equity work.
Throughout the conversation, Chiraag talks about the multigenerational
commitment that racial justice work requires, touching on themes such as
police reform, criminal justice reform, support for the LGBTQI+
community, and economic development, and the fortitude needed to do the
work in the face of backlash to progress. Chiraag credits the team at
the Domestic Policy Council for their commitment to the intra-agency
work as well as the partnerships cultivated with community activists and
organizations that together are moving the work forward, and how these
joint efforts are the beginning of a massive systematic shift for the
federal government.
An example of how community and government can work together to create
equity in underserved communities is highlighted in the recently
released report by Race Forward
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and Partners for Dignity & Rights
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, Co-Governing Towards Multiracial Democracy
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, which features powerful models of collaborative governance led by
communities of color across the country.
This report
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focuses on the critical nexus between community organizing and local
government, and documents the ways in which member-led organizations
representing poor and working-class people of color –– those that have
been excluded from full political and economic citizenship –– are
working with local government staff and officials to build out
co-governance models like people assemblies, restorative justice in
schools, and worker centered enforcement of labor rights. The models
that are lifted up are powerful because they give communities that are
directly impacted a direct role in developing and implementing solutions
–– participatory democracy in action.
Read The Report
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Check out our latest below!
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[Read] Forthcoming Bond Markets and Racial Equity Project
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In a recently announced partnership
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with the Public Finance Initiative (PFI) on the new Bond Markers and
Racial Equity
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framework and program, The Government Alliance on Race and Equity (GARE)
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, will be offering customized data workshops within the technical
assistance program on measuring jurisdictions' racial equity indicators
using the ESRI ArcGIS Social Equity Technology Tool
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.
The project is the first-of-its-kind framework and will offer support
and direction for bond market actors interested in catalyzing change for
racially inequitable conditions via a new technical assistance and grant
program
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, and will apply GARE's racial equity analysis to demonstrate how
government can be a force for achieving racial equity
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[Read] "This Moment is Rife with Opportunities to Advance Racial Equity"
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This recently published op-ed
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from Race Forward President Glenn Harris
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talks about the importance of needing "spaces to process what racial
equity looks like," especially in instances of police violence such as
the fatal beating of Tyre Nichols earlier this year, and how systemic
racism pervades our nation's system of policing.
The op-ed also calls on an all hands approach to racial justice work in
this moment, which includes future work with the federal government to
dismantle systemic racism, renewed voting registration efforts at the
local level, exercising the right to peaceful assembly, and most of all,
continuing to have hope and elevate conversations that will move our
communities to action.
Read More
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Staff Picks
In these times, it's important to share the things that keep us going.
In this edition, we hear from our Director of Digital Communications and
Content Strategy, Joi Ridley .
" Being based in Washington D.C., I'm always inspired by the White House
display celebrations that at times include lights of different colors.
Some of those celebrations have included Breast Cancer Awareness Month
(Pink), the signing of the Respect for Marriage Act (Rainbow), and most
recently, St. Patrick's Day (Green)."
Credit: The White House (Instagram)
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