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USAonRace.com is proud to host online Race Relations Forums. We are committed to providing a “gathering place” where many voices can participate in an ongoing conversation about race relations in the United States and around the globe.

Purpose and Objectives

The purpose of these online forums is to enable many more people to engage in the dialogue than could otherwise participate in a small community gathering. This online discussion can be a great addition to small group meetings that might be occurring in communities all over the country.

With these forums, we hope to achieve the following objectives:

  • Promote a better understanding of issues around race and ethnicity across the country;
  • Create a sense of community that we are “all in this together.”
  • Identify constructive strategies that are working to increase understanding and improvement; and
  • Stimulate a level of commitment needed to take actions to make things better where you live.

How the Forums Work

Various issues and subjects will be posted on a regular basis for comment. Please submit questions and issues you would like to be posted for discussion. A summary of the discussion with any pertinent findings will be provided and posted on line for visitors to access, download and distribute as they deem valuable.

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March 7th, 2012
Written by Janice S. Ellis Ph.D. in Cause and Civility, Latest News, Race Relations with 7 Comments
The U.S. Department of Education released a very disturbing report this week highlighting the disproportionately high rate of blacks students suspended from schools in comparison to white students. Black students are three time more likely to be suspended for days than whites irrespective of whether they come from poor, middle class, or wealthy families.The practice and glaring disparities were...
January 23rd, 2012
Written by Janice S. Ellis Ph.D. in Cause and Civility, Latest News, Race Relations with 3 Comments
While the movie, Red Tails, which premiered in movie theatres across the nation this weekend, is about an all black Air Force unit that flew successful air strikes in World War II, it is not a lesson just for black Americans, but all Americans. It depicts the journey of black men who were well trained and proud to fight for their country, even though they were not perceived or treated as equals...
October 17th, 2011
Written by Janice S. Ellis Ph.D. in Latest News, National Collegiate Dialogue, Race Relations with 75 Comments
The Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial was officially dedicated this past Sunday, October 16, 2011 at the National Mall in Washington, DC. In addition to the 30-foot memorial being erected near that of three U.S. presidents, Abraham Lincoln among them, the significance is far-reaching. As a caring ordinary citizen, King was motivated to fight for racial, social, economic, and educational equality....
October 17th, 2011
Written by Richard Lempert Professor of Law and Sociology in Latest News, National Collegiate Dialogue, Race Relations with 7 Comments
University of MichiganThis 2009 Law & Society Association presidential address combines the personal and political to address issues relating to race relations in the United States. Combining narrative methods and quantitative data the article traces the roots of the author’s commitment to racial equality and evaluates the degree to which over the past 60 years anti-black prejudice has...
October 11th, 2011
Written by Marlene Caroselli in Latest News, Race Relations, Stereotypes & Labels with 2 Comments
“We the women of Liberia will no more allow ourselves to be raped, abused, misused, maimed, and killed!” If these words are an indication of the ferocity with which Leymah Gbowee fights for human rights, it is little wonder she was awarded this year’s Nobel Peace Prize. She and compatriot/co-recipient, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, though differing in their approach, remain united in their opposition to...

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