Racial Equity

It's counterproductive to avoid addressing race head-on.

Dr. Clarence B. Jones on what we still have to learn from Martin Luther King, Jr.

Pastor Corey B. Brooks discusses the drawbacks of affirmative action and how his organization is helping young men and women in Chicago.

Why have black poverty rates remained static since the end of the civil-rights movement? When journalist Michele Norris brought her Race Card Project to the Institute, she immediately made examinations of race, culture, and identity central parts of the Aspen idea. “We want to try to engage people to talk across difference, to try to examine deeply entrenched narratives, so that we better understand how those narratives can confine or define communities,” she told an Institute audience in January. For her initiative’s first event, Norris sat down with Institute Trustee Henry Louis Gates Jr. The Harvard professor and filmmaker’s latest film project is Black America Since MLK: And Still I Rise, a look at black history in the modern era.

How do we close the racial wealth gap? Are people afraid to talk about race? Is the distinction between race and racism often blurred?

Michele Norris leads a discussion about how to converse about race with Khizr Khan, Adam Foss, and Amy Hinojosa.