In September 2023, we gathered 64 leading racial equity practitioners from GARE member jurisdictions in Pine Mountain, Georgia for our inaugural …
In the Wake of Another Racially Motivated Mass Shooting, It’s Time to Change the Rhetoric
JACKSONVILLE – Following a mass shooting at Dollar General in Jacksonville, Florida, where three Black patrons were killed, the national …
Building a Bigger We: GARE Leverages Transformative Partnerships to Build Institutional Change at the State Level
As Mitch Smith recently wrote in the New York Times, “America’s state capitals are as polarized as they have been in decades, with lawmakers imposing …
Deepening Our Commitment to Racial Equity to Reclaim the Promise of Equal Protection
A majority on the US Supreme Court unraveled decades of jurisprudence on affirmative action last week by finding that Harvard University and University of North …
AFFIRMATIVE ACTION RULING AN ATTACK ON EQUAL PROTECTION, FURTHER UNDERMINES DEMOCRACY
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 29, 2023 Contact: press@spotlightpr.org or jridley@raceforward.org In the Same Way Our Ancestors Persisted and …
GARE Launches New Tools and a Monthly Peer-to-Peer Networking Group Dedicated to Housing and Land Justice
April marked the 55th anniversary of the last major piece of Civil Rights era legislation, the Fair Housing Act (FHA), a law outlawing racial discrimination in …
GARE, PolicyLink, and Communities First Launch the 2023 Transformative Justice Infrastructure Fellowship for Public Sector Leaders
GARE, PolicyLink, the Communities First Infrastructure Alliance, are excited to announce the 2023 Transformative Justice Infrastructure Fellowship for public …
Root Solutions to Public Safety: A Journey to Montgomery, Alabama
Written by: Alex Frank, GARE's Director of Root Solutions to Public Safety “History, despite its wrenching pain cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, …
GARE Statement on the death of Tyre Nichols
Our hearts are with Tyre Nichols’ family and the people of Memphis, Tennessee. A routine traffic stop by police officers should never lead to death; a child …
Working Together: Advancing Racial Equity Across Government
On Wednesday, November 17, 2022, GARE, its programmatic partner State of Equity, and the Federal Initiative for Racial Equity (FIRE) co-hosted Working Together: …
Our Foundational Work: GARE Staff Welcome New Team Members and Offer a Sneak Peek into Our Network’s Practitioner-led Future
Our network comes together to listen, learn, apply, and innovate how we advance racial equity through the everyday decisions and responsibilities we hold as …
GARE and Race Forward Decry SCOTUS OVERTURN OF ROE V. WADE; DECISION WILL ADVERSELY AFFECT WOMEN OF COLOR AND MEMBERS OF LBGTQ+ COMMUNITIES
Contact: Cheryl Cato Blakemore media@raceforward.org This is an unbelievably sad day for women’s rights, reproductive justice, racial justice, and our …
Ripple Effect: Remaking Government into a Force for Racial Justice
The GARE Network has doubled in size almost every year since its founding, currently we have upwards of 430 member jurisdictions in our network. This means our …
Juneteenth: A First Step in the Long Work of Atonement
This year marks the one-year anniversary of the federal government’s recognition of Juneteenth as a national holiday. Juneteenth, also known as Emancipation …
GARE Calls for Widespread Condemnation and Response to the White Nationalist Violence of the Buffalo Massacre
Our hearts are with the city of Buffalo and the loved ones of the ten Buffalo, NY community members who were murdered by an 18-year-old white male gunman in act …
GARE Program Redesign Begins Summer 2021
The GARE Network has expanded significantly since membership began with 12 jurisdictions in 2014. We are grateful that, today, over 330 jurisdictions …