The White Privilege Conference is over. It's back to our regular news cycle. We have fresh links to timely topics and news events of interest to the white anti-racist community.

What are the barriers to white anti-racist community? What principles do white anti-racist need in our practice? We tackled these questions, and others, at the summit. AWARE has compiled the answers in a comprehensive report of the summit's work products. CLICK HERE

WACANupdate has published every two weeks since October 2006. On June 13 we will publish our last WACANupdate for the season. Not to worry. We plan to begin again in the fall of 2007.

In our remaining issues, we'll look at the Hall of Remembrance & Commemoration once again. We'll launch our Spring/Summer fundraiser, this year for a special cause, and we'll reflect back upon the WACANupdate season as it rapidly comes to an end.

The struggle continues in New Orleans. Black renters are denied opportunities to rent. Racial profiling in traffic stops has more to do with what happens after the stop has been made. White people get off with less invasive police practices applied to them. Margaret Kimberly takes a closer look at people of color who shill for white supremacy. The good people of Maine try to figure out what to do with an artwork whose whiteness, intentional or not, reinforces the image of Maine as a "white" state. Tourists now are seeking out the African derived Gullah culture along the Georgia coast. And interracial marriages continue to grow in number and acceptance. Many interracial couples contain one white partner.

A contingent from the Seattle school system has come under fire for using Federal grant funds to send students and staff to WPC8. The story was broadcast on Fox News, and picked up by a couple of Seattle area Internet discussion groups, Seattlest and Sound Politics, where discussion weighs hot and heavy. Less dramatic is the description of WPC8 that appeared in the student paper of the host college, UCCS.

What a heartwarming story. Student leaders in a Georgia school district take initiative to end segregated proms. USAtoday covered the lead up. ABCnews described the event, as did CNN. Another news outlet reports that some whites continued to hold a segregated event outside of the high school.

The NAACP is taking steps to address campus racism. Indiana University considers renaming a building named for a racist forebear. Prof. Harry Brod spoke on white privilege at Butler University. Professor Angela Neal-Barnett studies the impact of accusations of "acting white" upon black adolescents. Would that be such a bad thing? The head of the Purdue Latino Faculty and Staff Association mentions that creating a Latino Studies program will raise questions about having a white studies program. Could you be more specific? The Daily Evergreen of Washington State University talks about "white activism" when thinly veiled white supremacist flyers appear on campus. St. Cloud University recognizes some proponents for social justice. The Catalyst Project receives advance notice of a workshop they carried out at Humboldt State University.

Thank God it's over, and integration won. Yonkers, NY settles a suit nearly three decades in dispute. In a less protracted action, FedEx settles a discrimination suit brought by African American and Latino employees. At a national historic site, a massacre of Native Americans is memorialized.

The European Union approved rules to criminalize racism, but the action was weaker than expected.

A white supremacist receives 11 years for attack on synagogue. Palm Springs, CA is site of white racist female activity. White supremacist leaders are caught in sexual transgressions. The Southern Poverty Law Center has idenfified immigration as driving issue among white supremacists. Cincinnatti struggles to prevent a white supremacist march in a black neighborhood. Fox News highlights a multimillion dollar award to a black man beaten by white supremacists. And the worldwide grasp of white supremacy reaches unexpectedly into the home of an African American family.

A white mother talks about her mother, and her son, who each in their way have challenged racial barriers.

International adoptees face a different world from most.

Kirk Douglass wants national apology for slavery.

In Seattle, Danny Westneat discusses replies to a column he wrote on race in the school system.

Brian D. Smedley and Alan Jenkins discuss racial disparities in health care.

Suzan Shown Harjo offers a Native American view on "Why the Imus story still matters."

In case you missed it, the most recent essay by Tim Wise, inspired by Imus.

Finally, how does it feel to be a white male without an anti-racist consciousness? Daniel Sargis rants about the problems of white males beset with the demands of a multiracial society.