There’s nothing like the YWCA Racial Justice Challenge. For a full month, beginning on April 17, YWCA will send you daily activities to foster personal reflection, encourage social responsibility, and motivate you to identify and act on ways to dismantle racism and other forms of discrimination. Register online or download the Racial Justice Challenge app onto your phone (click read more for download links) to participate.

For many white women, the idea of niceness is ingrained from an early age as a virtue. But what exactly does it mean to be nice? Does it require silence? An avoidance of anything supposedly unpleasant? An uncritical going with the flow?

Join Regina Jackson and Saira Rao, authors of White Women: Everything You Already Know About Your Own Racism and How to Do Better, for deep, honest, unflinching conversation about the culture of niceness as part and parcel of white supremacy. Part 3 of this 4-part series presented by the Harriet Beecher Stowe Center, will be on Whiteness, Whiteplaining, and Colorism: Everyday “mundane” White Supremacy . Click Read More to get the zoom link and register for this program.

For many white women, the idea of niceness is ingrained from an early age as a virtue. But what exactly does it mean to be nice? Does it require silence? An avoidance of anything supposedly unpleasant? An uncritical going with the flow?

Join Regina Jackson and Saira Rao, authors of White Women: Everything You Already Know About Your Own Racism and How to Do Better, for deep, honest, unflinching conversation about the culture of niceness as part and parcel of white supremacy. Over four sessions, participants will explore the ways that self-identifying white women deny, defend, and deflect the presence of white supremacy in their everyday lives, and the ways in which they may perpetuate it. Presented by the Harriet Beecher Stowe Center, this Salons at Stowe series challenges white women to critically examine their participation in white supremacy as an important step in committing to the work of racial justice. Click Read More to get the zoom link and register for this program.