Two weeks from now we'll be at the White Privilege Conference. It's that close. For WACAN central, it's our busiest time of the year. WACAN central is not such a big place, so we get spread thin. For now, a quick report.

Summit registration is running well ahead of last year with 32 people registered for Wednesday and 43 people for Saturday. Registration is still open. WACAN will waive late fees until April 10.

Register and attend the White Anti-racist Summit
Summit flyer

The results of voting for the Hall of Remembrance and Commemoration are in. Current inductees are:

James Baldwin
Anne Braden
Prudence Crandall
A. P. Dostie
Frederick Douglass
Helen Hunt Jackson
Bartolome de Las Casas
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Mary White Ovington
Rosa Parks
Robert Terry
Sojourner Truth
Ida B. Wells

INDUCTION CEREMONY
Thursday, April 19, 9-11 PM
at the White Privilege Conference
(Room TBA)

To all the members of the WACAN community who are planning to attend the White Privilege Conference and the Summit. See you soon!

In Chicago, black residents are moving out faster than white people. A sex scandal in South Carolina draws suspicions of racism when white female teachers seduce teenage black students. Civil rights pioneer James Meredith makes a rare public appearance before a packed house, citing white supremacy, and not racism, as the enemy of progress. Finally, forget the Kool-Aid. You can't even drink the water. Environmental racism is growing in the U.S. says a new report.

Students at the College of New Caledonia-Nechako produce an anti-racist video as part of a British Columbia program in support of International Day for the Elimination of Racism activities. At Wabash College, guest speaker Dr. Harry Brod discussed white male identities. Another speaker, this time from the Minutemen and at Columbia University, was kept from talking when protestors took the stage. Student newspaper columnists speak. The Daily Kent Stater Editorial Board calls for colorblindness. At Pomono College, Ade Adeniji explores race consciousness. And Duke writer Kristin Butler reports on her investigations in to administration foot dragging on removing racially restrictive covenants in property leases.

White power activists demonstrate in Scottsdale, AZ. A man and his pregnant wife are beaten in Indiana in front of their home, apparently a white on black hate crime.

The recently passed International Day for the Elimination of Racism produced a story about the racial climate of Edmonton, and also the Toronto police, who used the day to publicize an agreement to eliminate institutional racism in their operation. The European Union marked the day by re-confirming its stance against racism. In the U.S....nothing.

In case you missed it, Shaquanda Cotton, a 15-year old girl in Texas, was sentenced to 7 years for pushing a hall monitor. See her website. The story has been widely, but unevenly, circulated, and spawned a brief discussion in the Multiracial Forum at WACAN.org. Authorities have relented, but word is they may go back to their old tricks.

Carmen VanKerckhove wonders about white people making black music.

Rove Raps

Is Disney facing its own tar baby?

Molly Secours discusses mental health and the damage white supremacy produces in white people in a 2-part series: Part 1, and Part 2.

In a long, detailed review, Leland Conley Barrows discusses the claims of George White, Jr. in a 2005 book that whiteness shaped U.S. policy toward Africa under the Eisenhower presidency.

Why are whites so homophobic? asks Keith Boykin.

Why is the green movement so lily white? Van Jones points the green movement toward racial justice.

SATIRE: Barack Obama: White Enough for Caucasian America?

Edmundo Rocha looks at white identity in the Latino community, with Alberto Gonzales as a stepping off point.

The pesky confederate battle flag still adorns a state flag. In Mississippi, Rodgerick Williams makes a cogent argument for change.

From within the Cherokee Nation, another look at the recent eviction of black families.

Historian James Loewen has unearthed a newsworthy historical finding, so how come nobody is reporting it? (James Loewen will be appearing at the White Privilege Conference in 2 weeks)

"Oh, Shut up, Mel." Gary Dauphin takes Mel Gibson to task.

HUMOR: Don Cheadle can't stop helping white people.

After hours: Why do some gay white men prefer dark guys?