Racial Justice
Racial Justice Committee
It’s a fact: Racism still exists. And for as long as it exists, we’ll be helping our community understand, challenge, and eliminate it. We are working to foster opportunities to engage in open dialogue about race, racism, and race relations—giving groups and individuals the training and support they need to address these topics in their lives and communities.
Volunteers are needed to work on the Racial Justice Committee. If you are interested in getting involved, please contact the YWCA Bradford today.
You can find more information through YWCA USA by clicking on the links below.
Promoting equal protection and equal opportunity for people of color
YWCA’s commitment to racial justice and civil rights runs deep. Since the 1800s, Black and Native women have been providing leadership in YWCA’s movement and, because of the leadership of women of color, in 1946 YWCA began working for integration throughout the organization, adopting an “interracial charter” that established that “wherever there is injustice on the basis of race, whether in the community, the nation, or the world, our protest must be clear and our labor for its removal, vigorous, and steady.” That work culminated in the creation of YWCA’s One Imperative in 1970: To thrust our collective power towards the elimination of racism, wherever it exists, by any means necessary.
YWCA’s approach to racial justice goes beyond changing hearts and minds. We strive to transform communities, systems and public policies. We do this through supporting measures that promote equal protection and equal opportunity for people of color at the national, state and local levels. We also do this through our annual Stand Against Racism campaign and through our racial justice programs and services, which engage more than 140,000 people each year.
As a part of our global work with the World YWCA, we advocate for an end to discrimination against women in every sphere — economic, political and social — and support the ratification of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW).
- Learn about our racial justice and civil rights policy priorities.
- Take a stand for racial justice and civil rights.
- Take advocacy action.
- Stand Against Racism.
- Fight racial profiling in your community with the Racial Profiling Community Watch Checklist.
- Oppose racial profiling in education with the Racial Profiling Education System Checklist.