Your race plays a role in almost every aspect of your life including opportunities that are opened or denied, where you are raised and where you live, how you are treated and how you treat others and even who you love and who loves you.
Race Forward advances racial justice through research, media and practice. Founded in 1981, Race Forward brings systemic analysis and an innovative approach to complex race issues to help people take effective action toward racial equity. Race Forward publishes the daily news site Colorlines and presents Facing Race, the country’s largest multiracial conference on racial justice.”#RaceAnd” is produced by Kat Lazo, Race Forward’s video production specialist. You can watch the first two videos of the series below; the remaining installments will run on Colorlines next week. Join the conversation online using the #RaceAnd hashtag.
As one of the featured subjects, Ulanday Barrett puts it, we can’t truly work toward racial justice “if we don’t address our level of depth, and also the level of depth to which we are being harmed and limited.”
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RE: Video series on impact of race on every aspect of life: Very powerful and profound. The discrimination against LGBT people is extreme, but throw in race and a disability and the challenges exponentially increases.