Virtual Training: Learning Lab: ReImagining Research for Racial Justice – Sep 3

Posted by Race Forward on September 2, 2025

Historically and currently, research has been framed as an objective process and has been used to harm communities, justify racial inequities, and uphold oppressive systems. These research practices are used to inform and set policy, allocate critical resources, inform culture and values systems, and contribute to narratives that impact the material conditions of our lives.

However, communities have engaged with a range of research methods that are rooted in liberatory movement practices. By Reimaging Research as a tool or tactic in a larger racial justice strategy, research has and can contribute to racial equity movement basebuilding, community power building, uplifting and shifting our understanding of social issues, and serve as an incubator for imaging solutions to enact grassroots experimentation, community-driven innovations, and building towards the world we want to see.

This training will introduce frameworks for using research towards racial justice by centering community needs, movement strategies, anti-racist and liberatory approaches, values- and goals-driven research protocol, and by offering collaborative research methods for community and movement power building and action.

Date and Time: Wednesday, September 3, 1:00-4:00PM

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