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Racial Equity

The Best Moments from Past State of Race Symposiums

You can register now for this year's symposium.

BY Communications and Society Program

Blog Post

05.18.2018
Identity and Equity

Seven Lessons for Fighting Inequality

The 2018 Summit on Inequality & Opportunity is dedicated to conversations about the widening opportunity gap in the United States.

BY Nicole Corea

Blog Post

03.02.2018
Literature

5 Questions with Novelist Jesmyn Ward

The Aspen Words Literary Prize nominee discusses her latest book, Sing, Unburied, Sing.

BY Aspen Words

Blog Post

01.29.2018
Identity and Equity

Why We Shouldn't Romanticize Cities

Writers Ta-Nehisi Coates and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie confront the limits of urbanism.

BY Tanvi Misra, CityLab

Blog Post

10.24.2017
US Government

The Right and Wrong Way to Fight White Supremacy

Ending federal grants for programs combating violent extremism is harmful. But there's hope outside of government.

Blog Post

08.28.2017
Racial Equity

Color-Blindness Is a Cop-Out

It's counterproductive to avoid addressing race head-on.

BY Jeff Raikes

Blog Post

06.28.2017
Racial Equity

A New Discussion About Race

Dr. Clarence B. Jones on what we still have to learn from Martin Luther King, Jr.

BY Clarence B. Jones

Blog Post

06.26.2017
Racial Equity

Moving On to Address Economic Inequality

Pastor Corey B. Brooks discusses the drawbacks of affirmative action and how his organization is helping young men and women in Chicago.

BY Corey B. Brooks

Blog Post

06.26.2017
Literature

Understanding Emmett Till

Two new books shed light on the 1955 lynching that shaped the struggle for justice in the US.

BY Nicole Corea

Blog Post

04.14.2017
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