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May 21, 2018
In her latest column, Tamara Copeland, WRAG’s president, asks if readers would be willing to take action to acknowledge this important day in American history.
April 23, 2018
WRAG is pleased to announce that it will partner with the Racial Equity and Leadership Initiative of the National League of Cities to host a regional summit in 2019, tentatively called Race, Racism and the Future of Greater Washington.
April 19, 2018
Last year, WRAG's president Tamara Copeland was named the Waldemar Nielsen Visiting Fellow, Center for Public and Nonprofit Leadership at the McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown University. As part of her time at Georgetown, Tamara oversaw a research project to assess the impact of the 2016 Putting Racism on the Table series.
Spotlight
Creating a Vision of a Racially Equitable Montgomery County, Maryland
Last October, WRAG's Racial Equity Working Group partnered with IMPACT Silver Spring to answer the question, "What Would a Racially Equitable Montgomery County Look Like?" We brought together about 40 community members and local funders diverse in race, ethnicity, age, affiliations, and vocations to connect with one another, learn about the historical roots of today’s racial inequities, generate ideas for what is needed to advance racial equity, and envision how those advances might look in the county.
Click the image above to read our report on the event.