In 1968 the Kerner Commission found that our nation is moving toward two societies, one black, one white separate and unequal and that what white Americans have never fully understood but what the Negro can never forget is that white society is deeply implicated in the ghetto. White institutions created it, white institutions maintain it, and white society condones it. One month after this report was released, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., was assassinated (United States. Kerner Commission, Report of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders (Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1968).In this troubled climate of 1968, Horace Seldon founded Community Change, driven by the realization that for years people had been talking about the Black Problem in the U.S., while the Kerner Commission made it clear that what our nation has is a White Problem. Since the Kerner Commission Report, many studies have documented persistent and ongoing racial prejudice and systemic racial injustice in Boston (for example: We Dont Want Your Kind Living Here (2001) and Acceso Negado/Access Denied (2002): both published by The Fair Housing Center of Greater Boston: www.bostonfairhousing.org) . In 2005, the Civil Rights Project of Harvard University release "We Dont Feel Welcome Here: African Americans and Hispanics in Metro Boston"; this study argues that it is critically important for white people to undertake this fight against ongoing racism and discrimination in institutional settings in order to avoid further deterioration of race relations in Boston (http://www.civilrightsproject.harvard.edu/research/metro/discrimination_boston.php).Meeting these challenges is the work of Community Change, as it has been since our founding in 1968. We at CCI understand racism to be more than individual prejudice and discrimination based on race.We believe that racism occurs when one group exercises power to institutionalize its prejudice in the forms of laws, policies, and ideologies that exclude and oppress other groups.Historically, in the United States, white people have had this power to create and control the institutions that govern the lives of all who live here.This has produced a system of advantage for white people who benefit from unearned privilege at the expense of people of color.We believe that this systemic or institutional racism is largely invisible to the white community.