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Hurst Lecture Series: Latino-Driven Solutions and Community Resilience

“We are all in this together” was a phrase often heard as the COVID-19 pandemic began to spread across the na ...

BY Aspen Community Programs

Video

08.13.2020
Racial Equity

Moving from the Performative to the Normative: Action for Racial Justice in the Private Sector

Melissa Tidwell, start-up advisor and former General Counsel of Reddit, Ayana Parsons, Senior Client Partner at Korn Ferry, and Michael Akin, President of LINK Strategic Partners, discussed how the private sector can turn words to action and systematically change their work cultures to create the antiracist companies they say they want to be. The conversation was moderated by Dr. Mikal Anderson, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Prototype Entities – an equity focused management consulting firm that delivers solutions to maximize the educational and economic outcomes of underserved populations

BY Socrates Program

Video

07.30.2020
Racial Equity

Allyship during America’s Season of Reckoning

Lincoln Ellis moderated a discussion between three Native Sons seminar participants, Haley Littleton, Samuel Kimbriel, and Brenda Gerber Vincent. They discussed the initial impacts of their seminar experience and how their learning and growth has continued since leaving the seminar room.

BY Socrates Program

Video

07.28.2020
Racial Equity

John Lewis: An American Hero

Death nor time can hold John Lewis to the grave, he belongs to the ages, he is American history – past and present.

BY Eric L. Motley

Blog Post

07.19.2020
Racial Equity

Leading in a Time of Crisis: Exercising Moral Courage for Equity and Justice

In the face of COVID-19, global inequities are being laid bare and further exacerbated, devastating some of the most vulnerable and low-income communities. Immediately, nonprofit and social impact leaders who serve those disproportionately at risk stepped up in unprecedented ways, working on the frontlines often with a lack of resources to do so.

BY Aspen Global Leadership Network & 1 more

Video

07.10.2020
Racial Equity

Will Today’s Anti-Racism Marches Lead to Meaningful Change?

Across the United States, from rural areas to cities and suburbs, people have been hitting the streets to protest racism and police brutality.

BY Aspen Ideas to Go

Podcast

07.09.2020
Racial Equity

We Must Undo a System of White Supremacy

We cannot 'move on’ from the past without acknowledging the harm that has been done.

BY Ascend at the Aspen Institute

Blog Post

07.09.2020
Racial Equity

Amid Racial Injustice and COVID-19, There’s Still Hope

A piece about building a stronger nation in USA Today by Fred Riley, executive director of Weave: The Social Fabric Project.

BY Frederick J. Riley

Of Interest

07.08.2020
Racial Equity

10 Movements and Moments to Help You Confront Systemic Racism

To be literate in American identity and ideals you must understand the various forms of racial injustice in this country.

BY Seth Henderson

Blog Post

07.02.2020
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