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.
In 2017, 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 on the local philanthropic community. The report, by Edward Weizenegger, MPP '18, documents the participants’ feedback on the series experience and enumerates the diverse impact it has had on their work.
In the first session of the 2018 Putting Racism on the Table: Expanding the Table for Racial Equity series, expert facilitator, Inca Mohamed, explains how to build a multi-sector community for racial equity. We encourage you to watch the video, and use this viewing guide to follow along or skip ahead within the video.
In the first session of the 2018 Putting Racism on the Table: Expanding the Table for Racial Equity series, expert facilitator, Inca Mohamed, explains how to build a multi-sector community for racial equity. Watch the video here.
In the second session of the 2018 Putting Racism on the Table: Expanding the Table for Racial Equity series, Dr. Ibram Kendi discusses how racist ideas and racist policies interact to create structural racism. We encourage you to watch the video and use this viewing guide to follow along or skip ahead within the video.
In the second session of the 2018 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, discusses how racist ideas and racist policies interact to create structural racism. We encourage you to watch the video with your colleagues, and then use this discussion guide to help spark a conversation.
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.
A comprehensive and independent assessment of WRAG's Putting Racism on the Table learning series in 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.
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.
