RARE’s Forrest Ward Racial Equity Award Given To Three Honorees
Roosevelt High School’s gym was bursting with energy as students filled the bleachers for the end of year Moving Up […]
The Rise and Fall – and Rise – of Confederate Monuments
The Civil War ended 159 years ago this spring. Despite this long stretch of time, the monuments that arose memorializing […]
Remember Amarr
There are no words for this. When a promising young man is cut down so soon in life we feel […]
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Class Reunions are a Great Time to Think of RARE!
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ULMS Integrates Connections into Summer University: Building a Culture of Belonging
The Urban League of Metropolitan Seattle (ULMS) and Roosevelt Alumni for Racial Equity (RARE) are excited to announce the integration […]
Congratulations to RARE’s 2024 Scholarship Winners
Two hardworking and proactive Roosevelt High School seniors are on their way to college, each with a $5,000 scholarship. RARE’s […]
Students & Educators Discuss the Importance of Belonging in Schools
Thriving, connecting, enlightening, understanding, shared leading, and empowering— all were a number of repeated themes that surfaced in RARE’s second […]
Reflections on a RARE Trip Through the Deep South
As my wife and I passed through Greenwood, Mississippi a few weeks ago while tracking down Delta blues history, we […]
Irei is the National Monument for the WWII Japanese American Incarceration
Irei: National Monument for the WWII Japanese American Incarceration is a multi-faceted project to address the erasure of the identities of […]
RARE Discusses the Birth of American Popular Music from The 1619 Project
On March 11, 2024, seven of RARE’s board members met on Zoom for the third discussion of Nikole Hannah-Jones’ The […]
RARE and Urban League Expand the Connections Program Through Strategic Partnership
Roosevelt Alumni for Racial Equity (RARE) and Urban League of Metropolitan Seattle (ULMS) have joined forces to expand the Connections […]