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Breakfast for Champions | Building Racial Equity for Long-Term, Sustainable Change
January 27, 2022 – Members learned how to develop a racial equity analysis and expand organizational resiliency for long-term, sustainable change at January's Breakfast for Champions. Julie Nelson, Senior Vice President of Programs at Race Forward, led participants through an…
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Lunar New Year, Rev. Dr. King Jr., and DEI Efforts
Mari's Memo
February 3, 2022 – Happy Lunar New Year to all who celebrate! This is the Year of the Tiger. People who were born in the Year of the Tiger are said to be ambitious, courageous, and generous with the desire…
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Mari's Memo
January 6, 2022 – Happy New Year! As we enter 2022, many of us are reflecting and setting goals for the new year. I am sure some of you welcomed in the new year celebrating with loved ones while others chose not to celebrate due to personal beliefs or cultural…
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A sign of progress, but far from real change
November 24, 2021 – Today, a jury in Georgia found the three men accused of shooting and killing Ahmaud Arbery last year guilty on charges of murder. This case became a larger national reckoning on racial injustice–with the three white…
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November 19, 2021 – We are disheartened by the acquittal of Kyle Rittenhouse in the murder of two unarmed men and wounding of another at a Black Lives Matter rally in Kenosha, Wisconsin, in August 2020. The verdict is another…
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