A few of us at LightBox have been talking about how hard it is to feel joyful around the 4th of July this year. So instead, we plan to celebrate a different day this month: July 9th. On July 9, 1868, just under a hundred years after the Declaration of Independence was signed, …
racial justice
Countering Racial Bias
On the afternoon of May 29th, Starbucks will close approximately 8,000 stores for a training on racial bias. The truth is that it’s hard for many of us who are white to grasp just how deeply steeped in racism we all are, which means sometimes we don’t know where to start, or …
Change the Conversation
In these tumultuous times, I – like many others – have returned to the importance of conversations as an engine for social change. The fractured and polarized state of American public discourse is both disappointing and disturbing. And as much as I want to blame Fox News, I know …
Start Here: Top 10 Resources to Change the Conversation About Race
On Election Day, we resolved to dedicate our blog to the discussion of racism and the use of strategic communications as a lever to dismantle it. As our first Black president says goodbye and we brace for Donald Trump, this undertaking feels so much more imperative, especially …
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How to Advance Racial Equity During A Trump presidency? Go Local.
Two days after Donald Trump won the electoral vote, I found myself in a room with hundreds of government and nonprofit professionals who, like me, were horrified by the frequent racist, xenophobic, and misogynistic slurs and threats spoken by this president-elect – and the …
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