Race Forward is excited to announce that registration for our 2020 Facing Race National Conference is now open! Use the early bird discount code FR20EarlyBird to receive 15% off your registration today!

Facing Race 2020 will be held November 12-14 at the Raleigh Convention Center, in North Carolina, our biggest venue yet, after a record-breaking turnout in 2018. 

Facing Race is for advocates, activists, policy makers, journalists, artists, and organizers - anyone who is committed to building racial equity in their community and is passionate about advancing racial justice through committed and accountable partnerships with communities of color. Check out 5 Reasons to Join Us at Facing Race, and watch the highlights video from the 2018 conference.

Wondering how you can get involved? We are now accepting breakout session proposals! If you’re interested in becoming a presenter at Facing Race 2020, please submit an application. Here are even more opportunities for individuals and organizations to participate in the conference: 

• Submit a film to Race Flicks
• Convince your employer to sponsor your registration
• Apply for a scholarship
• Apply to be a volunteer 
• Sponsor Facing Race
• Become a vendor or advertiser at Facing Race
• Use the official hashtag #FacingRace across social media

If you have additional questions, please see our Frequently Asked Questions page.

The countdown to Facing Race 2020 is on!

Check out our latest below!

Race Forward in the Media

Check out highlights of Race Forward in the press! 

GARE co-director Julie Nelson was recently quoted in the Washington Post discussing Montgomery County’s passage of a wide-ranging racial equity bill. Julie calls The Racial Equity and Social Justice Act, which will mandate racial equity training for more than 8,000 government employees, a significant piece of legislation that will serve as a model for other municipalities.   

Jeff Chang’s Can’t Stop Won’t Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation was recently listed on Slate’s “The 50 Best Nonfiction Books of the Past 25 Years”. The write-up highlights Jeff's coverage of the time, “Chang situates the revolution in the political and social context of 20th-century New York (and America): deeply racist, economically cruel, and ready to explode.”

Follow Jeff on Twitter, and stream his recent docuseries "We Gon' Be Alright" via our Facebook video library!

[Listen] to Drug Policy Alliance's Kassandra Frederique on Momentum!

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On Episode 3 of Momentum: A Race Forward Podcast, Kassandra Frederique, Managing Director of Policy, Advocacy and Campaigns at Drug Policy Alliance, joins Chevon and Hiba to talk about her work in advancing policy and community solutions to reduce the harms associated with drug use and the carceral system. They also touch on the importance of language as an organizing tool, and provide a framework that demonstrates how racial justice work and marijuana policy reform are inextricably linked. Listen to the episode on Apple Podcasts or Google Play Music, and remember to subscribe and leave us a review.

Catch up on our other episodes of Momentum, and keep the conversation going on Facebook and Twitter!

Staff Picks

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Find out what art & culture is attracting the attention of our staff! This month we hear from our VP of Movement and Capacity Building, Vina Kay!

“I just finished reading Killing Commendatore by Haruki Murakami. It is the story of a portrait painter who discovers a painting that opens up a series of questions, and challenges that take the painter on a disturbing, twisting path back to himself. Murakami's writing often explores the thin veil between dreams, reality, and a mysterious plane that exists somewhere in between both.”

What are you listening to, watching, reading and learning? Tell us on Twitter or Facebook.

In solidarity,

Team Race Forward