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What 362 Student Surveys Reveal About Belonging: Fun Helps, Peer Support Matters More

Over the 2024-2025 school year and into summer 2025, the Connections program collected 362 student exit-ticket surveys after meetups and […]

As we begin a new year, we want to pause and say thank you. Because of the generosity of our […]

When you meet Dulce Vasquez, a senior at Garfield High School, the first thing you notice is their calm presence. […]

As I learn more about redlining and the details of housing discrimination as part of my association with RARE, I […]

Last Memorial Day, George Floyd was killed by Derek Chauvin. Among the actions the murder set in motion was the […]

Members of the NAACP Youth Council are demanding to be included and they expect a future in which they are. […]

Roosevelt High School was in crisis last summer – a crisis of culture, conscience and identity. Several racialized incidents had […]

Overt racism has reared its ugly head again over the last five years. And yes, I blame Donald Trump and […]

The members of Roosevelt Alumni for Racial Equity were baffled. Our high school was more segregated than it was when […]

Roosevelt Alumni for Racial Equity (RARE), a group that formed just last summer, has awarded its first two scholarships to […]

The Seattle Public School district is not doing right by Black people, according to Clyde Merriwether and Gerald Donaldson. Donaldson, […]

If America wants to change the quality of policing, we must first, “Change the police culture,” says Les Young. Young, […]

In June of 2020, following the egregious killing of George Floyd and the racial reckoning that followed, my long-time friend […]

RARE donors are invited to join committee members for a 90-minute online discussion, “Seattle Schools’ Ethnic Experience Inside and Out” […]

The James A Davis Memorial Scholarship fund has topped $137,000! RARE would like to express its gratitude to all donors, […]