Talking About Race: A Conversation with Penn Badgley and Masud Olufani from National Center for Race Amity on Vimeo. Talking About Race: A Conversation with Penn Badgley and Masud Olufani Among the challenges all Americans, young and old, are faced with in the 21st century, is how do we develop...
One woman’s discovery connected her more deeply to her own rootsBeth Howard, Rural Kentucky Campaign Director of Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ), explored history in her area around the term “rednecks” and unfolded a deeper story of where this term originated from, and how it was a term of...
World Channel Picks Up American Stories Series September 12, 2021 We are excited to announce that World Channel has picked up our American Stories Five Half-Hour Series. The series will be aired consecutively on Sunday, September 12, 2021, beginning at 8:00 pm ET through 10:30 pm ET. Link below to...
At the end of May 1921, the nation’s capital played host to a multi-racial interfaith gathering the likes of which had rarely been seen in the segregated south. For three days thousands of people assembled at The First Congregational Church of Washington in the first ever convention for...
The short film, The Preacher and the Rabbi—about the enduring friendship and collaboration between Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.—has been selected for screening at two national film festivals: the Reel Black Men Film Festival, and the African American Film...
New shipments of Breaking It Down Towards E Pluribus Unum ® board game have arrived (with versions for middle/high school or college/adulthood)! Breaking It Down is an excellent resource to support your Race Amity work through productive dialogue. Breaking It Down Towards E Pluribus Unum brings...
Joy DeGruy, Rainn Wilson, Celeste Headlee, Howard Ross, Debbie Irving, and Roy Jones, are among the presenters scheduled for this year’s virtual National Race Amity Conference November 18-20. The conference will provide an opportunity for continued discussion of the theme “”.Reset To Our Destiny –...
(L to R) Ireland President Michael D. Higgins; William H. “Smitty” Smith, NCRA Founding Executive Director; Nancy Stager, Member, NCRA National Advisory Committee; Robert C. Henderson, Chair, NCRA Board of Directors “The best race amity conference yet” was a frequently heard comment among veteran...
Students from Ensworth Academy Nashville, Tennessee posed for group picture. The Tearing Down The Walls Conference Organizers Annouced Expansion In Wake Of Successful Second Annual Conference In Nashville. The Tearing Down The Walls (TDTW) South Eastern Conference on Race and Leadership becomes...
NCRA’s television programs partner, WHS Media Productions LLC, reports that production is underway for the half hour series of five programs for public television. Projected to begin airing on MLK King Day 2021, the series, American Stories – Race Amity and The Other Tradition will offer new...
NCRA Teams with Massachusetts Teachers Association and Eastern Bank to provide race amity curriculum packages to 581 middle schools in the state of Massachusetts. To assist with the dissemination of race amity and the other tradition as a vital element in discussing the history and development of...
To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness. What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives. If we only see the worse, it...