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Talking effectively about race and policy in an Obama Era

Talking effectively about race and policy in an Obama Era
Conventional wisdom says “Stay away from race. It’s a distraction at best and polarizing at worst.” With a Black president, this advice seems to be repeated louder and more often than before. Unfortunately, for those interested in progressive policy, President Obama and Democratic leaders in Congress...
March 10th, 2010 | Transforming Race Conference | Read More

Transit breakthrough in restoring civil rights

Transit breakthrough in restoring civil rights
Title VI Complaint by San Francisco Bay Area Coalition Has National Implications by Urban Habitat In the first successful action of its kind in the nation Urban Habitat, helped organize a coalition that filed a civil rights complaint to stop $70 million in stimulus funds from being allocated to a $500-billion...
February 22nd, 2010 | Featured, Transforming Race Conference | Read More

Working toward cooperative solutions to promote equality for all

Working toward cooperative solutions to promote equality for all
The election of Barack Obama as the first African-American President, gave me hope that our Country was at last moving forward from centuries of racist thought and practice. Jimmy Carter By the fall of 2009, the President was rejecting suggestions that political opposition was couched in racist thinking....
February 22nd, 2010 | Featured, Transforming Race Conference | Read More

Race and recession

Race and recession
By Dominique Apollon, Research Director, Applied Research Center The Great Recession has led to lasting unemployment for many, the greatest number since the last downturn in the 1980s.  Those hardest hit include people of color and single women and mothers who have been troubled by an utter lack of...
February 19th, 2010 | Featured, Transforming Race Conference | Read More

Can ‘Hollywood’ transform the way we understand race?

Can ‘Hollywood’ transform the way we understand race?
Children ages eight to 18 spend more than seven hours a day with entertainment media, according to national survey by the Kaiser Family Foundation released last month. The consumption of entertainment media includes listening to music, playing video games, watching TV and social networking on sites like...
February 19th, 2010 | Featured, Transforming Race Conference | Read More

Dancing at the limits of consciousness: Racial discourse in the Obama Era

Dancing at the limits of consciousness: Racial discourse in the Obama Era
By Stephen Maynard Caliendo, associate professor of political science at North Central College and Charlton McIlwain, associate professor of media, culture and communication at New York University. Both are investigators on The Project on Race in Political Communication. We all watched...
February 18th, 2010 | Featured, Transforming Race Conference | Read More

Race, genetics and the right

Race, genetics and the right
By Sujatha Jesudason, Executive Director, Generations Ahead I have a confession to make – even after six years of working on race and genetics, the science of genetics still make my eyes glaze over. Chromosomes, alleles, ACGT — I paid attention to none of these things until I made the connection...
February 18th, 2010 | Featured, Transforming Race Conference | Read More

The people or the pulpit

The people or the pulpit
By Patricia Cunningham II, Graduate Associate, Office of Minority Affairs, The Ohio State University and William Sturkey, Gradute Teaching Assistant, Department of History, The Ohio State University “Strong people don’t need strong leaders.”  -Ella Baker Historical Lens Many of the most common...
February 17th, 2010 | Featured, Transforming Race Conference | Read More
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