“As a result of [DEI] programs, students graduate with less bias and have an increased ability to work in teams. The programs promote peer acceptance and benefit both Black, Indigenous and students of color, but also all students,' says Erica Jacqueline Licht ⤵️

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Wow. Beautiful. A reminder as they are banning affirmative action and DEI and pretending we’ve suddenly become post-racial how very near this so-called racist past is.

Harvard Kennedy School Harvard Sharing Government of Rwanda Ministry of National Unity and Civic Engagement experience of Community-driven Reco efforts as well as learning from different exper.Greatful to Prof Khalil Gibran Muhammad & Dr Gloria Ayee Erica Jacqueline Licht 4 great opportunity Barbara Lee CRHRD Rwanda Mathilde Mukantabana

Anti-bias understanding is essential for the health of a fair and functioning multiracial democracy. Erica Jacqueline Licht Khalil Gibran Muhammad Learning for Justice

A CALL FOR ANTI-BIAS EDUCATION
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If you’re aware that a group is engaging in a propaganda campaign, you as a journalist have an ethical responsibility not to legitimize it. It is not a secret what’s happening with “DEI.” They’ve used the same playbook with “woke” and “CRT” and yet journalists keep doing this.

This is an absolute disgrace. A moral tragedy that returns Texas back to a dark past. This is how Reconstruction ends once again, with assaults on the very aspirations of Black dignity and citizenship.

In our recent webinar, co-hosted with Institutional Antiracism & Accountability Project, three researchers offered journalists tips and insights to help strengthen news coverage of college #DEI efforts and legislators' push to restrict or ban them. Here are some of the key takeaways: journalistsresource.org/home/dei-highe…

NEW EVENT — Join Hank Willis Thomas, artist behind 'The Embrace' at the JFK Jr. Forum, in conversation with art & cultural historian Sarah Elizabeth Lewis.

🗓️ April 8
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Learn more: iara.hks.harvard.edu/event/art-imit…

Today at 1 p.m. ET join us for 'DEI in Higher Education: Five Truths and Five Myths,' presented with Institutional Antiracism & Accountability Project and featuring Khalil Gibran Muhammad, Erica Jacqueline Licht & Kristen Renn, moderated by our own Denise-Marie Ordway.

Don't miss it! Register:

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What are the most important questions journalists should be asking about DEI in higher education?

Researchers Khalil Gibran Muhammad, Kristen Renn & Erica Jacqueline Licht will weigh in during our free webinar w/ Institutional Antiracism & Accountability Project on Mar 28 at 1 pm ET. Sign up here: iara.hks.harvard.edu/event/dei-in-h…

Researchers Kristen Renn of MSU and Khalil Gibran Muhammad & Erica Jacqueline Licht of Harvard Kennedy School will discuss the most important questions journalists should ask about #DEI in higher ed.

The free webinar, Mar 28 at 1 pm ET, is open to all. Register: iara.hks.harvard.edu/event/dei-in-h…

Hey, journalists! We're hosting a webinar w/ The Journalist's Resource about reporting on DEI in higher ed.

We'll hear from Prof Khalil Gibran Muhammad, Erica Jacqueline Licht & Prof Kristen Renn, moderated by Denise-Marie Ordway.

Register for free to join online on March 28 at 1PM ET. ⤵️
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'We must redouble our efforts for diversity, equity and inclusion, and support Black, Indigenous and students of color, as well as Jewish, Muslim, and Arab students, as they navigate campuses that are increasingly under attack,' says Erica Jacqueline Licht ⤵️

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piercing Erica Jacqueline Licht @cnn op-ed:

Antisemitism is the toxic result of White supremacist discourse. It is rooted in historical myths about who deserves entry to elite institutions. White supremacy is a poison that affects both Jews [&] people of color.

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In her latest article for CNN, Institutional Antiracism & Accountability Project's Erica Jacqueline Licht explains that in her experience, the antiracist movement does not go hand in hand with increased antisemitism

Read more from her time at Harvard here ⤵️
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Very grateful for this insightful and vividly written linkage of struggles by Erica Jacqueline Licht, of Institutional Antiracism & Accountability Project.

IF you stand against the dehumanization of people based on religion, ancestry, and racialization, then your struggle, too, is linked.

Today in CNN Opinion, Erica Jacqueline Licht responds to questions over campus initiatives on racial equity. She explains how her Jewish identity is not in conflict with her racial justice work — but rather, 'it is in direct service to it.'

🔗 Read here: cnn.com/2024/02/22/opi…

Erica Jacqueline Licht, who is Jewish, writes that 'discrimination and privilege is the backdrop to my enrollment in and subsequent employment at Harvard. It’s the same backdrop against which I consider current critiques of campus initiatives on racial equity.'

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In this #UntyingKnots ep, Erin Heaney talks with Erica Jacqueline Licht & Nikhil Raghuveera about the need to organize white communities for racial justice year-in & year-out — not just on election years.

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When Black History Month began in the 1920s, Black educators across the country began to collectively resist the dangerous threats they faced for teaching the truth of racial oppression in America.

Here we go again. #BHM

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