On March 29, join the LGBT Center OC and the OC Human Relations Commission to learn about and discuss hate in the LGBTQ community.
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The BRIDGES Program is a nationally-recognized program serving Orange County schools for 25 years. We work with student and educator leaders to build campus environments that are respectful of diversity, where ALL students, staff and parents feel safe, welcome and respected. We offer conferences, workshops, camps and internships to support our work in schools across the county
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OC Human Relations recently hosted a viewing party featuring “100 Days After DACA”, a video created by OC Human Relations & Dustin Le Productions on the impact of the White House termination of the DACA program on Orange County residents. The feedback from the 100 people who attended was very positive!
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“When I think about the opportunities I see in the county, there’s some really exciting things happening,” Edwards adds. She wants to see how government institutions can better respond to the work of a nexus of nonprofits to ensure that progress made with individuals and communities doesn’t become undone. “Our vision moving forward is to continue to try and create an equitable county,” she says.
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Christian Picciolini was 14 years old when he attended the first gathering of what would become the Hammerskin Nation, a violent, white-power skinhead group. Looking back, he describes his introduction to the group as receiving a “lifeline of acceptance.”
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White supremacists were responsible for the majority of extremist killings in 2017 compared to other groups, according to a newly released report by the Anti-Defamation League. Of the 34 people the league’s Center on Extremism found were killed by domestic extremists last year, right-wing extremists killed 20 people, with 18 of those killed by white supremacists.
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Our friends at the COR AME Church are organizing a Difficult Dialogues in Divine Dwellings series. The first takes place Monday, February 26, 2018, 7pm, at COR Church, 45 Tesla, Irvine, CA 92618.
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The staff of OC Weekly have compiled a thought-provoking and provocative month-by-month overview of hate and discrimination related events (both negative and positive) that occured in Orange County last year.
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Don’t be fooled by California’s increasing diversity. Racial and ethnic inequity remains a key problem and a potential barrier to future growth, according to Race Counts, a new Web tool that measures racial and ethnic disparities in the state’s 58 counties.
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On Dec. 20, CEO Rusty Kennedy will hand over the reins of OC Human Relations, the nonprofit he has shepherded for the last 20 years, to Alison Edwards, who has worked beside Kennedy at the organization for about 19 of those years. “During these years, I’ve been both vilified and celebrated,” Kennedy said. “But the one thing I can say with confidence is I’ve never been through uninteresting times.”
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