Race Forward Explained

Formation:1981
Type:501(c)(3)
Purpose:Racial justice, civil rights
Leader Title:Director
Leader Name:Glenn Harris (2017 - present)Rinku Sen (2006-2017)Gary Delgado (1981-2006)
Leader Name2:Gary Delgado (1981-2006)
Formerly:The Applied Research Center
Race Forward
Website:www.raceforward.org

Race Forward is a nonprofit racial justice organization with offices in Oakland, California, and New York City.[1] It defines its mission as "[helping] people take effective action toward racial equity."[2]

History

Race Forward was founded by Gary Delgado in 1981, and was known as the Applied Research Center until 2013.[3] [4] Delgado remained in leadership until 2006, after which point Rinku Sen became executive director.[5] In 2017, Race Forward merged with the Center for Social Inclusion and is now under the leadership of Glenn Harris, former President of the Center for Social Inclusion.[6] Rinku Sen remained with the organization as a Senior Strategist.[5]

Activities

Race Forward describes itself as advancing the advance of racial justice through research, media, and leadership development.[7] Speaking to NBC in 2015, Executive Director Rinku Sen further characterized Race Forward as focusing on finding ways to re-articulate racism to draw attention to systemic racism.[8] According to Gary Deglado, its work is based on an intersectional understanding of race and the impact of racism alongside other social issues.

In 2015, Race Forward explained its three principles as the use of specific and plain talk to say what you mean about race issues; the focus on impact rather than intention; and the use of strategic terms as well as moral arguments. The organization has published research reports and editorials on issues such as millennials and their attitudes towards race, environmental issues and grassroots organizing, race and religion, and police accountability.[9] [10] [11] John Sullivan, a research associate with Race Forward, has described the organization's research on community demographics and shifting populations of Black communities as a tool to understand and support community organizing efforts.[12]

Race Forward has endorsed the Movement for Black Lives.[13]

Publications

Publications from Race Forward include:

Race Forward publishes the daily news site Colorlines, published by Executive Director Rinku Sen. Colorlines was initially a magazine, and it transformed into a website in 2010.

In 2015, Race Forward launched an interactive multimedia tool called "Clocking-In," designed to highlight race and gender inequality in service industries.[27]

Conference

Race Forward presented Facing Race: A National Conference. Facing Race is the largest national biennial gathering of racial justice advocates, journalists, community organizers, artists, and other figures.[28] The November 2016 conference in Atlanta included speakers Isa Noyola, Alicia Garza, Jose Antonio Vargas, and Michelle Alexander. The election of President Donald Trump featured heavily in discussions, which Sen represented as opportunities for identifying solutions and expanding existing racial justice agendas. In 2018, the conference in Detroit featured keynote speaker Tarana Burke, founder of the

  1. MeToo
movement.[29]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: What Are Activists Doing to Stop Trump's Racist Agenda? - November 16, 2016. 2016-11-16. SF Weekly. en-US. 2019-04-08.
  2. Web site: August 6, 2024 . WE CATALYZE MOVEMENTS TO ADVANCE THE VISION OF A MULTIRACIAL DEMOCRACY . August 6, 2024 . Race Forward.
  3. Web site: Colorlines' Applied Research Center Races Forward By Becoming 'Race Forward'. Bernard. Riese. 10 November 2013 . Autostraddle. 6 July 2015.
  4. Web site: Celebrating Hellraisers: Gary Delgado. Walljasper. Jay. January 1996. Mother Jones. en-US. 2019-04-08.
  5. Web site: Rinku Sen. Facing Race: A National Conference. en. 2019-04-08.
  6. Web site: Possibility and Scale: The Merger of Race Forward and CSI. 2017-06-28. Non Profit News Nonprofit Quarterly. en-US. 2019-04-08.
  7. Web site: Talking about race. MIT News. 2019-04-08.
  8. Web site: Envisioning and Enacting Racial Justice: Rinku Sen the Force Behind Race Forward. NBC News. en. 2019-04-08.
  9. Web site: Millennials don't know how to talk about race, and that's a problem. 2015-03-25. PBS NewsHour. en-us. 2019-04-08.
  10. SEN. RINKU. 2003. Who's Got the Power? Resolving the grassroots-intermediary rift. Race, Poverty & the Environment. 10. 1. 26–56. 1532-2874. 41554366.
  11. Web site: OPINION: For police accountability, look beyond individual racial bias. america.aljazeera.com. 2019-04-08.
  12. Sullivan. John. 2011. African Americans Moving South — and to the Suburbs. Race, Poverty & the Environment. 18. 2. 19. 1532-2874. 41554768.
  13. Arnold. Eric K.. 2017. The BLM Effect: Hashtags, History and Race. Race, Poverty & the Environment. 21. 2. 10. 1532-2874. 44687751.
  14. Stoecker. Randy. 1995. Community, Movement, Organization: The Problem of Identity Convergence in Collective Action. The Sociological Quarterly. 36. 1. 127. 10.1111/j.1533-8525.1995.tb02323.x . 0038-0253. 4121280.
  15. Younis. Mona. 1998. Chapter 11: San Antonio and Fruitvale. Cityscape. 4. 2. 240. 1936-007X. 41486484.
  16. Duncan. Garrett Albert. 2000. Urban Pedagogies and the Celling of Adolescents of Color. Social Justice. 27. 3 (81). 41. 1043-1578. 29767228.
  17. Epstein. Kitty Kelly. 2005. The Whitening of the American Teaching Force: A Problem of Recruitment or a Problem of Racism?. Social Justice. 32. 3 (101). 100. 1043-1578. 29768323.
  18. Thompson. Gail L.. Allen. Tawannah G.. 2012. Four Effects of the High-Stakes Testing Movement on African American K-12 Students. The Journal of Negro Education. 81. 3. 226. 10.7709/jnegroeducation.81.3.0218. 0022-2984. 10.7709/jnegroeducation.81.3.0218. 140809345 .
  19. VOLANTE. LOUIS. 2008. Equity in Multicultural Student Assessment. The Journal of Educational Thought. 42. 1. 23. 0022-0701. 23765469.
  20. Delgado. Gary. 2004. Recruitment of Advocacy Researchers. Journal of Public Affairs Education. 10. 2. 170. 1523-6803. 40215653.
  21. Shaw. Kathleen M.. 2003-12-19. Using Feminist Critical Policy Analysis in the Realm of Higher Education: The Case of Welfare Reform as Gendered Educational Policy. The Journal of Higher Education. en. 75. 1. 76. 10.1353/jhe.2003.0053. 142848215 . 1538-4640.
  22. Monroe. Carla R.. 2005. Why Are "Bad Boys" Always Black? Causes of Disproportionality in School Discipline and Recommendations for Change. The Clearing House. 79. 1. 49. 10.3200/TCHS.79.1.45-50 . 0009-8655. 30182106. 144663143 .
  23. Web site: Multiracial Formations The Denver Foundation Inclusiveness Project. www.nonprofitinclusiveness.org. 2019-04-08.
  24. Bond-Graham. Darwin. Liu. Yvonne Yen. 2012. Communities of Color Organize against Urban Land Grabs. Race, Poverty & the Environment. 19. 1. 66. 1532-2874. 41762547.
  25. Kanny. M. Allison. Pizzolato. Jane Elizabeth. Johnston. Marc P.. 2015-05-18. Examining the Significance of "Race" in College Students' Identity Within a "Postracial" Era. Journal of College Student Development. en. 56. 3. 241. 10.1353/csd.2015.0023. 145801711 . 1543-3382.
  26. Sánchez. Patricia. 2014. Research and Policy: Dignifying Every Day: Policies and Practices That Impact Immigrant Students. Language Arts. 91. 5. 371. 0360-9170. 24575547.
  27. Race Forward Launches Interactive Tool on Race and Gender Employment Inequities. Innovation. Race Forward: The Center for Racial Justice. www.prnewswire.com. en. 2019-04-08.
  28. Web site: Facing Race: A National Conference in Detroit, MI 2018. ssw.umich.edu. en. 2019-04-08.
  29. Web site:
    1. MeToo Founder Tarana Burke to Keynote Facing Race National Conference in Detroit
    . Podder. Api. 2018-04-23. My Social Good News. en-US. 2019-04-08.

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