A new tool to address structural racism
Today we're excited to unveil what we believe is the first comprehensive repository ever compiled of policy-based recommendations to address structural racism and achieve racial equity. We scoured a vast array of materials, including books, reports, civic organizational platforms, and other sources, to compile roughly 1,000 policy recommendations in many areas where structural racism is most prevalent, including policing, criminal justice, housing, transportation, voting rights, education, and many others.
For an in depth summary of this project and analysis of the different approaches to addressing structural racism see this long essay introducing the repository by Assistant Director Stephen Menendian. For a more concise overview, see this blog.
We hope this project will be useful to advocacy groups, researchers, foundations, and local, state and federal officials who are seeking ways to address systemic racism in their communities. |
On Belonging in Europe
Check out the latest two pieces just published belonging to our European paper series, which we launched last month. The latest two include, "Healing division through exploration of shared values," written by Tom Crompton, co-founder of the Common Cause Foundation based in the UK; and "Fællesskab and Belonging," by Jessica Joelle Alexander, who is a bestselling author, Danish parenting expert and cultural researcher, and Camilla Semlov Andersson, a Danish Social Worker who has been working with children, families and schools in Denmark since 1999. Learn more about the series here.
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Vietnamese Voices from Orange County, CA: Narratives of Community, Government & Change
Join us for a Virtual Press Conference summarizing the findings of a research brief to be published by OBI’s Blueprint for Belonging project in collaboration with VietRISE, a community-based organization in Little Saigon, Orange County, CA. The press conference will present research findings on prevailing beliefs, policy preferences, and narratives among Vietnamese residents in OC on economic inequality, the role of government, and the future of their community. VietRISE and OBI will also lead a discussion and Q&A on the implications of the research for civic engagement in 2022 and cross-racial organizing in the Vietnamese American community and Orange County more broadly. The research brief will be available on February 22. RSVP here.
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If you live in the Bay Area come check out this new play, Red Winged Blackbird, by Alyosha Zim, which will be showing for 12 days at Berkeley's Live Oak Theater. Set in 1960s New York and 1980s Colorado Rockies, the play is about brothers and lovers, Judaism and Buddhism, spiritual quests and identity. This is a story of transcendence - of rising above strongly held beliefs, and the struggle to care for seriously ill loved ones - to do what’s needed in the name of love.
As part of the production the team will host two webinars with different guests to discuss the play. OBI Director john a. powell will be a panelist at one of the webinars, on March 16. Get your tickets for the play here. And to sign up for the free webinars about the play go here.
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