AOL's Digital City and the Non-Profit Western Justice Center Launch `Dialogues Online: Racial Healing in Our Communities'.DULLES, Va. and PASADENA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 11, 1999-- New Online Area Aimed At Promoting Racial Understanding Dialogues Begin This Week on Digital City Atlanta, Detroit, Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. and Washington, DC AOL's Digital City, Inc., the nation's No. 1 local content network and interactive community guide, in partnership with the Western Justice Center, a national nonprofit organization Nonprofit Organization An association that is given tax-free status. Donations to a non-profit organization are often tax deductible as well. Notes: Examples of non-profit organizations are charities, hospitals and schools. that develops innovative ways to resolve conflict, today launched "Dialogues Online: Racial Healing in Our Communities" to provide communities across the country with online platforms to help promote racial understanding and to bridge the gap between the races. "Dialogues Online" will shine a spotlight on work now underway in different communities that has been successful in narrowing the racial divide. The new initiative, launched this week on Digital City Atlanta, Detroit, Los Angeles and Washington, will provide people with information on what's working at the local level, how to plug into community efforts and where to get more information. Each of the participating Digital City sites offers community news, resources for improving race relations race relations Noun, pl the relations between members of two or more races within a single community race relations npl → relaciones fpl raciales and comment boards (Digital City's self publishing See blog, wiki and print on demand. tools) allowing members to engage in candid conversation about race with others from the community. Already stimulating both thoughtful and provocative posts from members in the local community and from across the country, these innovative conversation tools are inspiring members to not only speak their mind, but reach across the divide and explore ways to get involved. In addition, participating Digital City sites are providing a link to the Western Justice Center's database of hundreds of organizations that specialize in community-based mediation and intergroup in·ter·group adj. Being or occurring between two or more social groups: intergroup relations; intergroup violence. dialogue. Available on AOL (A division of Time Warner, Inc., New York, NY, www.aol.com) The world's largest online information service with access to the Internet, e-mail, chat rooms and a variety of databases and services. (Keyword: Dialogues Online) and CompuServe as well as all Digital City Web platforms including: AOL.com, Netscape's Netcenter, MCI (1) (Media Control Interface) A high-level programming interface from Microsoft and IBM for controlling multimedia devices. It provides commands and functions to open, play and close the device. (2) (Microwave Communications Inc. WorldCom Internet and www.digitalcity.com, "Dialogues Online" is expected to expand from the four pilot cities to additional Digital City sites. In addition, AOL's Lifestyles Channel will provide coverage of the initiative and there will be a direct link to "Dialogues Online" from the Race Relations Forum (Keyword: Race Relations), allowing AOL members across the country to participate. "Dialogues Online is a grassroots initiative that uses the interactive medium to tackle one of the toughest and most stubborn challenges facing our country - the divide between the races," said Paul DeBenedictis, President of AOL's Digital City. "By providing a forum for people to talk with one another openly and frankly about race and by providing the tools to learn more about some of the models that have worked in different communities, we hope to not only facilitate important dialogues about race, but to provide a vehicle for converting those dialogues into action." "Through our partnership with AOL's Digital City, we can promote honest, healing dialogues and point people to community resources for moving from conflict to collaboration," said Bill Drake Bill Drake, born Philip Yarbrough, is an American radio programmer. He chose his now-legendary last name from among his relatives' surnames because it rhymed with WAKE, the AM radio station in Atlanta, USA where he worked in the 1950s. , Executive Director of the Western Justice Center. "We are excited about the opportunity to foster meaningful, community-based dialogues. AOL is showing leadership by helping people plug into opportunities for peacemaking Peacemaking See also Antimilitarism. Agrippa, Menenius Coriolanus’s witty friend; reasons with rioting mob. [Br. Lit.: Coriolanus] Antenor percipiently urges peace with Greeks. [Gk. Lit. , in addition to reflecting its understanding of the core issue by establishing dialogue athate crimes in local schools. DCLA DCLA District of Columbia Library Association DCLA Diamond Certification Laboratory of Australia DCLA Daring Club Leuven Atletiek DCLA Distinguished Canadian Leadership Awards DCLA differential cytolocalization assay will also link to sites with information about programs that help students address these issues. In Digital City Atlanta, they are runerracial harmony in schools. All of the "DialoguOnline: Racial Healing in Our Communities" is an online platform for people and groups seeking to build bridg Western Justice Center, "Dialogues Online" is mation about how to fund "Dialogues Online", please contact the WJC WJC World Jewish Congress WJC William Jefferson Clinton (42nd President of United States) WJC World Junior Championship (hockey tournament) WJC Western Journalism Center WJC Washington Journalism Center . About the Western Justice Center Based in Pasadena, California Pasadena is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States. As of the 2000 census, the city population was 133,936 and the 160th largest city in the United States. The California Finance Department estimates the Pasadena population to be 146,166 in 2005. , the Western Justice Center is a national nonprofit organization that work collaboratively center for research and development. Abn 60 cities and delivers locally relevant news, community resources, entertainment and commerce in a dynamic and easy-to-use format. The Digital City network is cuthe people who use the service to help residents get the most from their communities. Based in Vienna, VA, Digital City, an AOL Interactive Properties Group business, is owned primarily by America Online and Tribune Company. |
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