Race

Race and Cultural Diversity Course

2008: Kicking off Mississippi State University's new online Diversity Certificate Program for professionals, Greg Meyjes of Solidaris Intercultural Services LLC will offer an online graduate course. With its focus on the workplace, this interdisciplinary online course offers a practical, evidence-based overview of concepts and issues pertaining to the realities of race and culture in organizations and society today.

Black History Month

2007: Solidaris represents local organizations in the city of Falls Church, Virginia by organizing an event in honor of Black History Month, 2007. The event is designed to stimulate cross-cultural appreciation through the arts - a rich sampling of music and food drawing on African and African-American traditions.

Friday February 2nd, 8:00 to 10:00 p.m., McGonagal Exhibition Space, 212 N. West Street, Falls Church, Virginia.

The Roma in Bulgaria

2006: European Community funds to render "technical assistance to the implementation of project activities and institutional set-up for disadvantaged ethnic minorities issues with a special focus on Roma" in 2007-2008 (pending.)

2005: Solidaris established essential grassroots contacts with community-based organizations serving Roma (Gypsy) populations in Bulgaria, as a preliminary step to proposing and carrying out social inclusion projects involving the Roma.

Racial Violence in Europe

2006: Solidaris enters into contact with a high-level Bulgarian official and a member of the European Parliament, to address the growing problem of racial violence in that country, at the eve of its January 2007 accession to the European Union.