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"Putting Racism on the Table" in the Washington Monthly
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12/05/2018
Tamara Copeland’s article is the latest in Successes of Philanthropy, a sponsored project of the Washington Monthly magazine.
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Tamara Copeland in the Chronicle of Philanthropy: "Why Grant Makers Must Talk About Anti-Black Racism"
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11/30/2018
WRAG’s Racial Equity Working Group recently adopted an anti-Black racism frame to guide its work. In an op-ed, Tamara Copeland, WRAG’s president, discusses why this is necessary, as philanthropy begins to explore its role in helping to create a world free of racism.
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"My eyes were opened"
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10/02/2018
WRAG's president Tamara Copeland reflects on WRAG and LGW's recent Civil Rights Learning Journey.
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Now Available: Video from the final Expanding the Table session - Dr. Manuel Pastor
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07/10/2018
At the sixth session of WRAG & LGW's learning series, Dr. Manuel Pastor discussed building a regional, multi-ethnic movement for racial equity.
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Now Available: Video from Expanding the Table for Racial Equity - The Role of Government
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06/25/2018
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).
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National League of Cities & WRAG Partner to Advance Racial Equity in the Greater Washington Region
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04/23/2018
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.
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An Impact Assessment of WRAG's Putting Racism on the Table series
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04/19/2018
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.
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Expanding the Table for Racial Equity Session 3 - White Privilege - Video available
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04/17/2018
In the 2nd session of WRAG and LGW’s Putting Racism on the Table: Expanding the Table for Racial Equity series, Dr. Robin DiAngelo discussed the way race shapes the lives of white people.
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Expanding the Table for Racial Equity Session 2 - Structural Racism - Video available
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04/02/2018
In the second session of the Putting Racism on the Table: Expanding the Table for Racial Equity series, Dr. Ibram Kendi, 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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Op-Ed: "How Philanthropy Can Work to Give All Black Men an Opportunity to Succeed"
Release Date:
03/29/2018
Read WRAG president Tamara Copeland's op-ed in the Chronicle of Philanthropy.
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