Facing Race 2026 is 7 months away—but it can’t happen without you!
Race Forward has several ways you can get to the largest, bi-annual conference for racial justice.
👉🏼 Scholarships that cover full or partial registration
🫱🏾🫲🏽 Volunteer opportunities with incentives
🎞️ Race Flicks for filmmakers with new projects
✨ Vendor and exhibition opportunities for small businesses
Don’t miss your chance for an unforgettable, power-building gathering—one that nourishes our spirits, sharpens our strategies, and strengthens our collective resolve for the work ahead.
Learn more at http://facingrace.us?utm_source=hootsuite&utm_source=instagram!
Narratives are all around us—moving via familiar everyday channels like movies, podcasts, and headlines. How can we build and grow narratives that not only accurately reflect our realities but move us toward transformative change?
Our latest #RaceAnd is a four-part series that’ll show you how to build narratives for solidarity and systems change. Every Thursday in May, be in community with narrative strategists to share actionable insights for effectively using our narratives to advance racial justice.
This series will explore:
— How to build narrative power for systems and culture change
— Strategies and challenges to building narrative power in times of crisis
— Interventions and power-building for narratives in the wild
It all culminates in a coaching and peer-learning space for workshopping your narrative projects.
Learn more and join us starting May 7!
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#FacingRace26 gives you the opportunity to promote your work or sell products in our marketplace, open throughout the conference. From full booths to bag inserts, we offer an array of vending and sponsorship solutions to help you reach over 3,500 individuals working to advance racial justice.
Best of all, your vendor registration includes two (2) tickets to experience the conference, along with access to the equipment and technical support you need for an immersive exhibit.
APPLY BY TOMORROW TO SAVE 10%!
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What narratives have been effective in advancing solidarity and equity? Session 2 of our #RaceAnd series will explore challenges in the field of narrative power building, with best practices and strategies for cultivating collaboration. Hear from narrative experts, including:
— Sol Jimenez-Palacios, national organizer at @familiatqlm
— Sarah Lowe Ph.D, vice president of communications + research at @DefineAmerican
— Aletha Maybank M.D, Ph.D (@dralethamaybank ), president and CEO at Novellawells
— Pamela Mejia, co-director at @berkeleymediastudiesgroup
Join us tomorrow!
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Want to help make Facing Race a valuable conference experience for other attendees? Sign up to be a volunteer with our event staff!
As a volunteer, you can support anything and everything—from pre-conference preparation to registration, workshops, special events, and more. You’ll work alongside Race Forward staff while forming networks with racial justice professionals like you.
Learn more and apply by Monday, June 22!
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Building narrative power starts by design. Our first #RaceAnd session will sharpen your knowledge and capacity to design narrative interventions that move people and organizations towards systemic change.
Race Forward Deputy SVP of Programs Nikko Viquiera @justinthenikkoftime and Director of Narrative and Cultural Strategies Sughey Ramirez @susitaaa will be joined by RadComms’ Annie Neimand @dr.annieneimand to support you with tools and frameworks to build solidarity across movements.
Get started with us THIS Thursday!
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The season five finale of Momentum: A Race Forward Podcast features a conversation with @AlokVMenon .
In this episode, ALOK joins Race Forward’s Deputy Senior Vice President of Programs, Nikko Viquiera (@justinthenikkoftime ), for a discussion recorded at #JustNarratives for Multiracial Solidarity 2025. ALOK reflects on their work as a poet, performer, and public thinker, exploring how storytelling can challenge dominant narratives that shape identity, power, and belonging.
Drawing from personal experience, ALOK discusses their journey from navigating childhood shame and public violence to cultivating a practice rooted in joy, play, and self-determination. The conversation also situates the gender binary as a colonial system that reinforces racial hierarchy and limits the possibilities of multiracial solidarity, offering a perspective on how expanding narrative frameworks can support more inclusive approaches to racial justice.
ATTENTION SMALL BUSINESSES!
Race Forward is now accepting applications to join the exhibition/vendor hall at #FacingRace26 in Raleigh, North Carolina. At the nation's largest, bi-annual conference dedicated to racial justice, your business has the dynamic opportunity to promote your work or sell products in our marketplace. Over three days, you can reach over 3,500 attendees.
Learn more and apply by Monday, June 22—or save 10% when you apply by May 15!
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As our wages are shrinking, the cost of living is skyrocketing. While our communities struggle, our nation's elected officials are diverting our tax dollars to fund unnecessary wars at home—and abroad.
This #MayDay, Black movement continues to center workers over the rich and people over profits. Together we're building a worker-powered future: one where all of us can thrive and flourish.
It is time for us to redirect our economy away from billionaires and corporate leaders’ pockets and back into bettering the lives of all working people.
Another world is not just possible—it’s necessary.
The elite billionaire class, aligned political actors, and robustly-funded organizations have had far too much political influence. Together, they are working to shape a public narrative that downplays climate and health risks, promotes false solutions, and introduces sharp divides in our culture.
On May 1—International Worker’s Day, organizers, educators, social justice organizations, and everyday people and workers will fight this harmful public narrative and demand that we put workers over billionaires.
Our latest @colorlinesnews article highlights the power of collective action happening around the nation. Read it at the link in our bio!
#MayDay
On Wednesday, the U.S. Supreme Court severely crippled the Voting Rights Act of 1965 when they targeted a key provision that ensured Black people have political power in the United States. Striking down a Black majority congressional district in Louisiana, the decision will not only affect the state’s citizens but also has implications for Black and Brown people across the country.
Full statement from Race Forward President Glenn Harris at the link in our bio.
THIS MAY DAY, ITS WORKERS OVER BILLIONAIRES!
Every year on May 1, workers from around the world celebrate the power of solidarity and fight for progress.
May Day–also known as International Worker’s Day–will be the biggest international day of collective action in which we rise up for dignity, justice, and public investment in our lives. Business as usual is not working as our public schools are being defunded, our climate risk accelerates and families are struggling to make ends meet.
Race Forward and Race Forward Action encourage you to support Public School Strong, a growing movement of educators, parents, educators, students, and community members fighting for honest, equitable, and fully-funded public education.
#PublicSchoolStrong has a number of ways that you can get involved for May Day. You:
⚡️ Sign their petition
⚡️ Join or host your own May Day rally in your local area
⚡️ Help us push this messaging
⚡️ Join the Public School Strong campaign and continue to organize beyond May 1
⚡️ Donate as statewide and local teams always need your support
#MayDay is the day we show up, speak out, and strengthen our collective power. Follow @publicschoolstrong to see the May Day toolkit for everything that you need!
