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Research on Redlining in Richmond
The Digital Scholarship Lab at the University of Richmond has completed a on-line project on Redlining in Richmond. The website shows the assessment surveys and residential security map that was produced for Richmond by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in 1937. It shows clearly the influence of race and racial prejudice on home mortgage policies in Richmond.

Even Babies Discriminate Even young children notice racial differences, so how do parents teach their children to see past the color of one's skin?

“Catalysts for Community Change” Module 1 lecture by Rob and Susan Corcoran: Connecting Communities Fellowship Program, 2005

“Barriers to Forgiveness - and Forgiveness, Barrier to Revenge” Dr. Donald Shriver, President Emeritus of Union Theological Seminary, shares his thoughts on forgiveness at the 2nd module of the Connecting communities Fellowship Program. Shriver is author to over a dozen books including 'Honest Patriots: Loving a Country Enough to Remember Its Misdeeds,' 2005

Walk Through History By Joe Montville

Today there is a moral crisis in our urban centers equal to slavery and segregation as debates continue in Washington and around the country on the effectiveness of the welfare system, affirmative action and federal vs. local government responsibility. Is there not an urgent need to do everything possible to turn such deliberations and the economic and social health of our cities in a new direction?
Monday, January 1, 2007
Beyond the Comfort Zone: Honest Conversations on Race, Reconciliation and Responsibility

Presentation by Rob Corcoran at national forum on Building Constructive Frameworks for Improving Ethnic Relations: Best Practices Here and Abroad 50 Years After Brown, hosted by the University of Denver, August 19-21, 2004
Thursday, March 10, 2005
Racial Reconciliation in Oregon

Representative Anitra K. Rasmussen shares the story of racial relations in her state at Metropolitan Richmond Day on November 18th 1999
Saturday, November 20, 1999