The Anti-Racist Community Network (ARCN) presents:

Becoming Trustworthy White Allies

Free Online Author Event with Melanie Morrison

Thursday, January 29, 2026, 4-5:30pm PT, 7-8:30pm ET

In Becoming Trustworthy White Allies, Melanie Morrison brings together essays, lectures, and real-life stories drawn from her decades of anti-racist work. With honesty and care, she names the challenges white people face on the path to allyship—and the practices that make genuine partnership possible: moving through shame and guilt, building accountable relationships with people of color, unearthing suppressed ancestral stories, stepping out of social segregation, taking action to dismantle systemic racism, and rooting the work in cross-racial collaboration. This is a guide not for quick fixes but for lifelong commitment—inviting white people to show up with humility, consistency, and courage as trustworthy partners in the work of racial justice.

In this author event, Melanie will be addressing the work white people must undertake, and she welcomes the reflections, feedback, and critique of BIPOC members of the audience. 

About the author:

Melanie S. Morrison is a writer, speaker, and racial justice educator who has spent more than thirty years helping groups and communities navigate the work of transformation. She was the founder and executive director of Allies for Change, a national network of social justice educators, and she co-founded Doing Our Own Work, an intensive anti-racism program for white people that has attracted hundreds of participants. She is the author of six books including Murder on Shades Mountain: the Legal Lynching of Willie Petterson and the Struggle for Justice in Jim Crow Birmingham (Duke University Press, 2018). Melanie believes we can face hard truths about systemic injustice while still cultivating compassion, joy, and hope. She lives in Durham, North Carolina. Melanie’s website: www.melaniemorrison.net



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About the Anti-Racist Community Network (ARCN)

We are building a pathway to the emerging anti-racist, multiracial society…

The ARCN is a multiracial, anti-racist online community working to achieve racial justice and end white supremacy through activism and organizing. Our members want to be actively networking against racism and white supremacy. Through education and activism, we are working together for real and lasting societal change.

The Anti-Racist Community Network is owned and operated by the Center for the Study of White American Culture, Inc. Founded in 1995, we are known in anti-racist circles. Our operating philosophy for ARCN is to create a big tent. If you are comfortable working under our explicit expectation that you support racial justice and building anti-racist multiracial community, then you are welcome and we invite you to come.

Member Policy

Black, Indigenous, and People of Color may join the ARCN with a complimentary equity membership.

White people who cannot afford the cost to join may apply for a scholarship. White people with the means to pay are asked to do so, and we also welcome People of Color who would like to support us in addition to your presence by enrolling in a paid membership plan.

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