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Video: Expanding the Table for Racial Equity Session 6 - Building a Regional Movement

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07/2018

The final session of 2018's Putting Racism on the Table: Expanding the Table for Racial Equity features Dr. Manuel Pastor, Professor, Sociology and American Studies & Ethnicity, University of Southern California. In the Greater Washington region -- like many other metropolitan regions -- a conversation about racism and racial equity must cross geographic jurisdictions and racial and ethnic lines. Dr.

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Video: Expanding the Table for Racial Equity Session 5 - The Role of Government

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06/2018

The fifth session of Putting Racism on the Table: Expanding the Table for Racial Equity features Julie Nelson (Race Forward and the Government Alliance on Race and Equity) and Karla Bruce (Fairfax County Government). Across the country, state and local governments are beginning to take the lead on addressing racial inequity. What are examples of how this has happened? What is the role of community leaders in shaping these conversations? Where are we seeing success?

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Video: Expanding the Table for Racial Equity Session 4 - Implicit Bias

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05/2018

In the fourth session of Putting Racism on the Table: Expanding the Table for Racial Equity (2018) Dr. Patricia Devine and Dr. Will Cox, two scientific leaders in the study of stereotyping and implicit biases from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, share the strategies they have developed and empirically tested to break the “prejudice habit.” These strategies are the first and remain the only interventions that have been shown to produce long-term changes in implicit bias.

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Video: Expanding the Table for Racial Equity Session 2 - Structural Racism, featuring Dr. Ibram Kendi

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04/2018

In the second session of the 2018 Putting Racism on the Table: Expanding the Table for Racial Equity series, Dr. Ibram Kendi, National Book Award-winning author of Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America, discussed how structural racism is constructed by the interplay of racist ideas and racist policies.

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Video: Expanding the Table for Racial Equity Session 3 - White Privilege, featuring Dr. Robin DiAngelo

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04/2018

In the third session of the 2018 Putting Racism on the Table: Expanding the Table for Racial Equity series, Dr. Robin DiAngelo, author of What Does It Mean to Be White?, discusses white privilege. What does it mean to be White in a society that proclaims race meaningless yet is deeply divided by race? Dr.

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DC: America's Black Mecca: First in Freedom, First in Leadership (Putting Racism on the Table 2018 kick-off)

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02/2018

At a reception to kick-off the 2018 Putting Racism on the Table series, Dr. Bernard Demczuk, retired George Washington University professor and Ben's Chili Bowl's official historian, discussed why we have to understand the racial history of DC and the US in order to address the root causes of the inequities we see today.

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Structural Racism Theater: "The Pernicious Compromise"

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11/2016

Based sardonically on Masterpiece Theatre, WRAG’s Structural Racism Theater introduces the viewer to concrete examples of structural racism and implicit bias. It’s edgy, dryly humorous, “shareable,” and an incredibly different direction for WRAG. The first episode, "The Pernicious Compromise," focuses on the timely topic of the Electoral College and its connection to the Three-Fifths Compromise.

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Structural Racism Theater: "Darkness in Emerald City"

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11/2016

Based sardonically on Masterpiece Theatre, Structural Racism Theater introduces the viewer to concrete examples of structural racism and implicit bias in an edgy, social media-friendly way. In "Darkness in Emerald City," we look at the relationship between implicit bias and institutional racism.

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