Doing Our Work - Guilford Anti-Racism Alliance

June 6th, 2017 - Walking us through different brain tests, Dr. Claire Morse digs deeper into the subject of implicit and unintentional bias.

May 2nd, 2017 - GARA Member, Diane McFarland details the tumultuous history the International Civil Rights Center and Museum located in Greensboro, North Carolina.

April 4th, 2017 - On the 49th anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., residents of Greensboro, North Carolina gather to listen to retired economics professor Larry Morse as he gives a brief history of the city's racial disparities in housing.

March 7th, 2017 - The Guilford Anti-Racism Alliance (GARA) series, Doing Our Work continues with scholar and activist, Gary Kenton giving a brief introduction on Race and Education in Guilford County, followed by an in-depth presentation by John Batchelor, author of Race and Education in North Carolina: From Segregation to Desegregation.

February 7th, 2017 - Author and Professor of Sociology, Kristen M. Lavelle comes back to Greensboro, North Carolina to discuss her book "Whitewashing the South: White Memories of Segregation and Civil Rights".

January 24th, 2017 - Author David Billings discusses his book "Deep Denial: The Persistence of White Supremacy" and his very personal fifty year battle with racism.

December 6th, 2016 - The "Doing Our Work" Series continues in Greensboro, North Carolina as multiple presenters discuss the task of moving the institutions we are a part of towards anti-racism work.  Presenters include Audra Apt of the Episcopal Diocese of North Carolina; Cindy Dillard of the Unitarian Universalist Church of Greensboro; John de Beer, a Former Rector in the Episcopal Church; Bob Williams, a professor at Guilford College; and Catherine Johnson of the Guilford County Family Justice Center.

October 4th, 2016 - The "Doing Our Work" series continues for it's second season with a presentation by Guilford Anti-Racism Alliance member Kari Thatcher on what white people gain from doing anti-racism work.  

May 2nd, 2016 - Dr. Lisa McLeod, Associate Professor of Philosophy at Guilford College in Greensboro, North Carolina gives a presentation on colorblind racism and how and why it exists.

April 4th, 2016 -  Tye Hunter, a veteran Civil Rights attorney and former director of the Center for Death Penalty Litigation, Inc. in Durham, North Carolina discusses how race has operated in our court systems throughout our history and how it continues to distort justice in the present.