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Watch the latest Putting Racism on the Table video
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06/19/2017
Last week, Philip Walsh of Maine Initiatives presented on his foundation's approach toward advancing racial justice: participatory grantmaking.
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Jordan Edwards
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05/03/2017
WRAG's president Tamara Copeland reflects on the killing of Jordan Edwards by police in Dallas.
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"My racial identity, deconstructed"
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04/24/2017
WRAG's president Tamara Copeland discusses perceptions of racial identities while reflecting on her own, and challenges others to confront their unconscious biases.
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Lessons Learned from the Greater Buffalo Racial Equity Roundtable
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03/07/2017
Hanh Le (Weissberg Foundation) and Yanique Redwood (Consumer Health Foundation) reflect on a recent presentation about the Buffalo region's cross-sector approach to racial equity.
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Philanthropy moves toward action on racial equity
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02/21/2017
Last week marked the launch of WRAG's Racial Equity Working Group, a group of funders that are dedicating time and energy toward continuing to better understand how structural racism manifests in our region – and to collectively take strategic actions toward dismantling it.
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"Poor, Black, and on Trial in DC"
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02/14/2017
WRAG's president, Tamara Lucas Copeland, reflects on the racial bias she witnessed while serving on a DC Superior Court jury.
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What does a trip to California have to do with racial equity?
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01/10/2017
A group of 15 philanthropic leaders committed a full week to learning about racial healing last month. Here's why.
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What does Santa look like?
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12/13/2016
In her monthly column, Tamara writes about noticing this year that as she looks around in local shops, there are no black Santa Christmas tree ornaments.
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WRAG releases new episode of Structural Racism Theater, "Darkness in Emerald City"
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11/21/2016
In the latest video, our host Alistair Book uses a real-life example to explore the relationship between implicit bias and institutional racism.
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Keeping Racism on the Table
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11/08/2016
In a guest blog post, the Meyer Foundation's Rick Moyers writes about why, despite what he was taught growing up in rural Virginia, talking openly about race is a powerful tool for social change.
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