Perception Institute’s statement on the Supreme Court’s Affirmative Action cases: The neurobiologists, the environmental engineers, the welders, the poets, the food justice organizers, the pediatricians, the patent attorneys, the 2nd grade teachers, the art history professors … the list of possible professions our current high school students may inhabit is vast and ever changing. The […]
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By: Sadiqa Reynolds, CEO at Perception Institute At Perception we’ve been pushing for shifts that need to happen in philanthropy––in its workplaces and through its work. We lifted up strategies to accomplish these shifts six years ago in His Story: Shifting Narratives for Boys and Men of Color, a toolkit that compiled key knowledge, analysis, […]
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The Perception Institute has spent years raising this issue. More than four years ago, we partnered with the Executives’ Alliance for Boys and Men of Color on “His Story: Shifting Narratives for Boys and Men of Color.” In this document, we created a toolkit to help reimagine the lived experiences and possibilities of boys and men of color.
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By Lucia McBath One of the saddest truths that the Charleston tragedy taught us is that even in our faith, African Americans still aren’t safe. Coming together in God’s house provides no haven from bigotry and evil. Just as in the Birmingham attack on 16th Street Baptist Church in 1963, the shooting at Emmanuel African […]
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“3 1/2 Minutes is an immersive experience into what it means to grapple with race and perception in America. From the gut-wrenching anguish of Jordan Davis’s parents to the resigned trauma of Jordan’s friends, this film challenges us to make meaning of his death at the hands of someone who undeniably held clear racial animus […]
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