Racial Equity

Writers Wajahat Ali and Jelani Cobb talk about race, white nationalism, at the Aspen Ideas Festival in June.

Tom Brokaw is just the latest media personality ignorant of the breadth of Latino contributions.

"My beliefs and my hunger for change have great potential to ultimately ignite change in society."

The Aspen Institute Symposium on the State of Race in America explores individual, cultural, institutional and structural causes of racial problems, looking towards new and viable solutions.

AspenX brought together students from every corner of Chicago, breaking down siloes across age, ethnicity, nationality, sexuality, and more. Together, these students learned about and discussed race through an intersectional lens and began to develop their ideas on how to create a more equitable future.

Michele Norris talks all things diversity and inclusion – and the danger of colorblindness – at the 2018 Atlantic Festival in Washington, DC.

Jamelle Bouie, Michael Signer, Melody Barnes, and Leslie Greene Bowman share thoughts on how Charlottesville is working to recover one year after hate rallies were held there.

Hearing students from all walks of life give their perspectives on the world opened my mind to look beyond surface explanations to the more dynamic, gray areas of issues.

We don't provide black and brown kids the opportunities to mess up like their white peers.