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2021 was an important landmark year for racial justice in America. It
was a year that followed nationwide protests against systemic
injustices, calls for a racial reckoning in this country, and a historic
presidential election. As we reflect on the past 12 months, it's
important for us to reimagine our collective racial justice work and to
continue thinking about how we carry this energy forward into the new
year.
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Earlier this year, President Joe Biden was quoted as saying "Democracy
doesn't just happen by accident. We have to defend it, fight for it,
strengthen it, renew it." As we've seen this year –– with an
insurrection on the Capitol in an effort to overturn an election, the
rise of white nationalism, guilty verdicts for the murderers of George
Floyd and Ahmaud Arbery, last month's acquittal of Kyle Rittenhouse
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in murdering and critically injuring white allies during a Black Lives
Matter protest, and attacks on voting rights, women's rights,
transgender rights, and even the right to learn the true history of this
country—the need for us to continuously question our systems and
institutions is paramount.
The hard questions around race and democracy and its historical
intertwining with America's history (slavery, Jim Crow, Indigenous land
grabs, the exclusion of people of color, genocide) calls for a constant
reimagining of how we can achieve a truly multiracial democratic
society.
In this calendar year, our work here at Race Forward has continued to
move us toward this vision of a multiracial democratic society. Some of
the programs and initiatives we've worked on include:
Launching the Federal Initiative To Govern For Racial Equity
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Launching the Decision-making for Racial Equity (DRE) training
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Releasing two tools for Racial Equity practice
From Seed to Harvest: A Toolkit for Collaborative Racial Equity
Strategies
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Creating Cultures and Practices for Racial Equity
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We invite you to join us in building a society and a world where all
communities will be able to thrive. Start right at the beginning of the
year by joining us for the following activities we have planned in
January. Watch your email early next year for more information.
Webinar: #RaceAnd: The Fight for Reproductive Justice (January 25)
Webinar presented by our new H.E.A.L (Honest Education Action &
Leadership) Together on countering the attacks in Critical Race Theory
(CRT) (January 27)
Launch of Facing Race 2022 with calls for proposals, vendors, and
volunteers
Launch of a new podcast miniseries dealing with the themes of
immigration reform, racial justice, and solidarity that places a
spotlight on the urgency of the moment within the immigrant rights
movement.
We're kicking off 2022 getting real about how we build this just,
multiracial society we have never seen nor experienced. Acknowledging
that in order to build power, our vision needs to be bolder than ever
and our work more intentional than ever. Continue following Race
Forward's work on our website
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–– and if you're inspired and ready for the work in the new year, tell
us! Tag us using @raceforward and let us know how you'll be starting the
new year off in the fight for racial justice.
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[Listen] Joshua Dubois on Momentum
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Check out our latest episode of Momentum: A Race Forward Podcast!
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In the latest episode of Momentum: A Race Forward Podcast, Gauge
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co-founder Joshua Dubois
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joins Chevon and Hiba for a conversation about his time as the White
House Executive Director of the Office of Faith-based and Neighborhood
Partnerships, how Gauge is connecting community leaders and brands on
their racial justice initiatives, and his ongoing work on racial justice
initiatives.
Listen and subscribe to Momentum: A Race Forward Podcast on Apple
Podcasts
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[Watch] Race Forward Celebrates 40 Years
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Check out the replay of Race Forward's 40th Anniversary
Celebration!
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Hosted by Spotify's "The Get Up" morning show producer and host Kat Lazo
, Race Forward's 40th Anniversary Celebration featured special
appearances from Race Forward's founder Gary Delgado, current president
Glenn Harris, and former president Rinku Sen; as well as many other
leaders, organizers, culture bearers and artists working for racial
equity.
Watch the celebration f ull of memorable historic highlights, humor, and
cultural performances honoring 40 years of catalyzing the racial justice
movement!
Watch The Replay
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Staff Picks
During these trying times, it's important to share the important things
that keep us going. In this edition, we hear from our Senior Vice
President of Programs, Julie Nelson
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"We lost a giant [bell hooks] this past week. For me, she was
instrumental in making the connections between theory and practice. As a
young person in an educational system that didn't offer much theory
critiquing the white supremacist capitalist patriarchy, "Ain't I a
Woman"
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was formative in my real education
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; in "Teaching to Transgress," the idea of theory as liberatory practice
helped me to understand the importance of putting ideas into action; in
"Black Looks: Race and Representation," from the opening dedication,
helped prepare me to think about the destructive ways that dominant
culture focuses on competition and scarcity and the words that followed
taught me the necessity of critique from a perspective of love and
rigor.
Credit: USA Today
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