Black World Today Launches Reframing the Dialogue on Racism Site

Posted on December 11, 1997

Less than one week after President Clinton held his town meeting on race in Akron, Ohio, The Black World Today, an online source of information about black communities in America and around the world, has launched 'Reframing the Dialogue on Racism', a site dedicated to promoting racial justice and reconciliation in the USA and throughout the globe.

TBWT's new site contains essays and commentaries by prominent leaders, academics, social critics and activists as well as news articles, polls, surveys and reports on various race initiatives, from the President's down to those in local communities.

Among those who have written commentaries and recommendations on the President's race initiative are Hugh Price, president of the National Urban League, Julian Bond, national board member of the NAACP, Columbia University's Manning Marable, historian Howard Zinn and former assistant secretary in the Department of Health & Human Services, Peter Edelman.

Herb Boyd, TBWT's national editor, says in a statement, "As a forum for an ongoing conversation on racism and its negative impact on American culture, this new site will be a work in progress. We anticipate that it will expand as our readers become engaged and we are confident that its long-term impact would be to transform negative and stereotypical thinking into positive and constructive attitudes and actions."