Latest Discussion
Welcome to REI
The Racial Equity Institute is an alliance of trainers and organizers who have devoted themselves to the work of anti-racist transformation. In our contemporary society, racism shapes the outcomes of all institutions. It pits entrenched patterns of power against what are often faint images of equity. The trainers and organizers of the Institute help individuals [...]
More Discussions
Bias Law Used to Move a Man Off Death Row
Andrew Craft/The Fayetteville Observer, via Associated Press
A death sentence for Marcus Reymond Robinson, left, was reduced at Friday’s hearing to life in prison without parole.
By CAMPBELL ROBERTSON
Published: April 20, 2012
FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. — Concluding that racial bias played a significant factor in a death sentence here 18 [...]
Dr. Camara Jones, research director on the social determinants of health at the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta, discusses her pioneering work on measuring racism and health. She describes three levels of racism (personally mediated, internal and institutional), the stress of everyday racism, and the need to expand our thinking about how racism, opportunity [...]
WHY ANTI RACISM TRAINING?
“People have been responding to racism for over 300 years, attacking its every overt daily expression. Yet after 300 years, it remains, changing form over time, in response to political conditions, while producing more damage. Whenever we’ve gotten strong enough to interfere with its operations (e.g., the civil rights movement), it comes [...]
The Anti Racism Training
The Anti Racism training delivered by the RacialEquity Institute is designed to build the capacity of individuals and institutions interested in ending racial inequities within their institution. It prepares participants to serve as ambassadors of racial equity in communities and institutions across the country.
© 2012 Racial Equity Institute. All Rights Reserved.
Powered by WordPress. Designed by 