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Color-blindness has its uses, but injustices persist
Letter published in the Boston Globe, February 11, 2024 Re “Color-blindness remains the best form of antiracism” by Coleman Hughes...
Colin Stokes
Mar 2, 2024
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WPCR: An experience that will stay with me for the rest of my life
I signed up for “White People Challenging Racism (WPCR): Moving from Talk to Action.” with some trepidation, not knowing what to expect....
Cindy Barratta
Aug 12, 2022
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Journey to Racial Awareness
by Colin Stokes I grew up in San Antonio to northern parents who didn’t feel at home there. I was raised Jewish in an overwhelmingly...
Colin Stokes
Nov 1, 2021
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Inventory of My White Life
WPCR co-facilitator Barbara Beckwith shares her racial awareness journey, a reflection assigned to every workshop participant.
Barbara Beckwith
Oct 10, 2021
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Disparities in Melrose School Discipline
In September 2020, the Boston Globe reported that Black girls in Massachusetts are five times more likely than their white counterparts...
Jane Appleyard Allen
Jul 24, 2021
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Erased
Every day, I get glimpses of the erasure of Americans of color. My May 8, 2020, New York Times arts section (“For a Great Escape, Try a...
Barbara Beckwith
May 16, 2021
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STATEMENT ON THE MURDERS IN ATLANTA
We are enraged and saddened by a White man’s murder of women, six of Asian descent. Their names are Daoyou Feng, Hyun J. Grant, Suncha...
WPCR
Mar 23, 2021
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BLACK LIVES MATTER
Dear WPCR Community, WPCR unequivocally affirms that Black lives matter. We are outraged and deeply saddened by the murders of George...
WPCR
Oct 11, 2020
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Why We Don’t Wear Mohawks
A Conversation about Who We are and Cultural Appropriation with My 7-Year-Old My son and I live two blocks from the end of one of the...
Lisa Graustein
Oct 11, 2020
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