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Racism in Tax Policy – a Zoom dialogue
October 18, 2021
The United States exhibits wider disparities of wealth than any other major developed nation. Over the past five decades, wealth has concentrated among the highest-income households, which are disproportionately white and male. In 2018, three white men held aggregate wealth greater than the aggregate wealth... Read More >>
Racism in Mental Health – a Zoom dialogue
October 13, 2021
“In our mental health system, people of color are overrepresented, misdiagnosed, and mistreated, and organized psychiatry has no plan to guide the correction of these well-studied and long-standing inequities.” Ruth S. Shim (physician, director of cultural psychiatry, and professor of clinical psychiatry in the Department... Read More >>
Racism in White Saviorism – a Zoom dialogue
September 15, 2021
REGISTRATION IS NOW CLOSED. Please join us for another dialogue. White Saviorism according to Teju Cole is “is about having a big emotional experience that validates privilege”. In this session we will discuss the destructive consequences of white saviorism. We will understand the historic legacy of white... Read More >>
A Way Forward Conference: Critical Race Theory with Tim Wise on Zoom
September 7, 2021
A WAY FORWARD: Dismantling Institutional Racism Please join us for the third annual A Way Forward conference. This year the conference will be a six-month virtual conference. The kickoff event will feature Tim Wise and will address Critical Race Theory: What it is and What it... Read More >>