The Together is Better Alliance (TiBA) seeks to end racial bias and inequality by confronting our difficult past courageously, thoughtfully and honestly together. We do this by providing historical content and facilitating thoughtful and informed conversations about racial exclusion, injustice and violence.

Systemic racism in the United States continues to wound families and communities. Today’s mass incarceration has been recognized as a continuation of Jim Crow and the ongoing reflection of old myths of black criminality.  Systemic racial bias victimizes the powerless, as well as those in power, through an intentional process which imbeds false and negative perceptions about the value of human life based solely on the color of a person’s skin. These perceptions are manifest in stories of white people calling the police on their African American neighbors for mowing their lawns, driving their cars, being in the parking lot of their own apartment buildings. More horrifying still are the stories like that of a black security guard doing his job being mistaken for a criminal and shot to death.