Applying Our Research
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 In a New York City community forum this week, advocates worked to stop funding cuts that impact shelters for homeless lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) youth by brainstorming how to build a larger movement. Utilizing ARC’s "Better Together" report, Colorlines.com Editorial Director Kai Wright highlighted research showing that alliances between racial justice and LGBT groups are both viable and productive, particularly on issues like housing, families and criminal justice.
ARC continues to conduct case studies of racial justice/LGBT collaborations that address the intersectionality of these issues. Every day activists around the country are making a difference, and increase media visibility of LGBT leaders of color. We hope that you are able to use "Better Together" in your work – and let us know when you do.
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Network News
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"CHALLENGE RACISM SYSTEMATICALLY"
1-Hour Webinar |
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SAVE THE DATE
Thursday, June 23, 1pmET/10amPT |
How does racial injustice hurt communities? How can we design and promote solutions? How can we raise our strength to fight racism? ...Systematically.
Save the date for an action-packed webinar! In this training, you will get a clear, useful set of tools, methods and ideas that break down racism into manageable organizing efforts and meaningful conversations. Whether you are in academia, grassroots organizing, service delivery or policy advocacy, this will help you examine the context and root causes of racism in order to develop actionable strategies and solutions. Here's what some people have said about ARC's racial justice trainings:
- "It gave me an overall framework and analysis as well as concrete tools to use in my organizing work." —Community organizer
- “This was the most powerful and productive training on race issues I’ve ever experienced.” —Social justice funder
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Colorlines.com Spotlight
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 This week, Colorlines.com education reporter Julianne Hing steps out of the daily news cycle for an intimate, in-depth profile of out-of-work parents who are struggling to keep their kids’ educations on track amid economic crisis. Julianne traveled to Los Angeles, which has become an intense battleground in the heated debate over public schools, to meet students, parents and teachers who are trying to stay ahead of a still collapsing economy. As she explains in a reporter's notebook video, she found those families facing challenges that are rarely addressed in the polarized fight over teachers unions and charter schools.
We’re also thrilled to share with you that Colorlines.com was selected as a 2011 Webby Awards Official Honoree for our daily political blogging! It’s a prestigious honor, and a tribute to our dedicated, multiracial editorial staff. Sign up at Colorlines.com for original reporting from a racial justice perspective. |
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President's Message
 During the recent May Day rallies to champion human rights and dignity for immigrants, I thought a lot about Marcelo Lucero, an Ecuadorian immigrant who was beaten to death on the streets of Long Island in 2008. His teenage killers shouted that he was a “f***ing illegal” as they punched and kicked the life out of his body. When we die, as we must, it should be in the arms of someone who loves us, not at the hands of someone who hates us.
That’s why we started the Drop the I-Word campaign to rid the immigration discourse of the dehumanizing word “illegals.” Already 8,000 individuals and more than 20 media outlets have taken the pledge to Drop the I-Word. I’m asking now for your help – together we can get this biased word out of the immigration lexicon.
Your $10 donation today can help us change the language – language that enables the kind of dehumanization that killed Marcelo Lucero. Language that brings misery to the lives of millions women, men and children across the nation.
We’re at a pivotal moment in our Drop the I-Word campaign, and we need your help to pay for staff, materials, translation, and all the other tools needed to move a big cultural shift. Please donate $10 to ARC today so that we can sustain and grow this vital campaign.
 
Rinku Sen
President and
Executive Director
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 National Keynote Contest: The May 13 deadline is fast approaching! Campus Progress and Colorlines.com are looking for three dynamic young people (18-30) with big ideas who want to share them in front of an audience of over 1,000 of their peers at this year’s Campus Progress National Conference in Washington, DC on July 6. Winner will be decided by public vote. Find out more about the contest, and submit your video today!
Summer Internships: ARC and Colorlines internships are invaluable opportunities to gain non-profit and racial justice advocacy experience in new media, journalism and research work. Internships are unpaid, but some commuter benefits are available. Currently, internships are available in journalism, marketing and communications, campaign outreach, research, and video production. Apply today – we’re recruiting now!
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