21-Day Racial Equity Habit-Building Challenge
American Bar Association
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world:
Indeed it's the only thing that ever has.”
~Margaret Mead
- Nikole Hannah-Jones: The New York Times (Aug. 14, 2019)
America Wasn’t a Democracy, Until Black Americans Made It One
- Danielle Cadet: (May 2020)
Your Black Colleagues May Look Like They Are Okay – Chances Are They Are Not
- Katy Waldman: New Yorker (July 23, 2018)
A Sociologist Examines The “White Fragility” That Prevents White Americans From Confronting Racism,
- Project Implicit
- Kristen Rogers: CNN
Dear anti-racist allies: Here's how to respond to microaggressions
- Ali Vingiano: BuzzFeed (March 3, 2014)
63 Black Harvard Students Share Their Experiences In A Powerful Photo Project
- Pacific Standard (updated Feb 18, 2019)
What Well Meaning White People Need To Know About Race: An interview on racial trauma, segregation, and listening to marginalized voices,
- EurekAlert! Science News (Nov. 29, 2018)”
"Media portrayals of black men contribute to police violence, Rutgers study says,”
- “Leigh Donaldson: The Guardian (Aug. 12, 2015)
“When the media misrepresents black men, the effects are felt in the real world,”
- Karma Allen, ABCNews (Jan. 22, 2020)
More than 50% of homeless families are black, government report finds,
- Scott Winship, Richard V. Reeves, and Katherine Guyot
- Hannah Giorgis The Guardian (Feb. 22, 2015)
Black Art is dangerous because it marries the personal and the political
- Rebecca Epstein, Jamilia J. Blake, and Thalia González: Georgetown Law Center on Poverty and Inequality
Girlhood Interrupted: The Erasure of Black Girls’ Childhood,
- Adrienne Green:The Atlantic (June 29, 2017)
Perspectives in Poetry
- Between the World and Me
- Harlem
- Poem for Ms. Fannie Lou Hamer
- Who Said it Was Simple +
- You are in the dark, in the car.
- The World Rising
Perspectives on Change:
- The Beatles – Revolution #1
- Nina Simone – Revolutions
- Nina Simone - Mississippi Goddam
- Peggy McIntosh, Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack of White Privilege
N. K. Jemisin, Blog (Sept. 30, 2013)
Sam Dylan Finch: Everyday Feminism
9 Phrases Allies Can Say When Called Out Instead of Getting Defensive,
- Jolie A. Doggett: HuffPost (Feb. 14, 2020),
4 Questions About Hair that Black Girls Are Tired of Answering,
- Jessica Moulite:The Root (Jan. 16, 2020)
- Hair Love, Oscar®-Winning Short Film (Full)
- National Conference for Community and Justice, Colorism
- Natasha S. Alford, The New York Times (Feb. 9, 2020)
- Karyn Lacy: You’re
How to Convince a White Realtor Middle Class, The New York Times (Jan 21, 2020)
- On the Media (Podcast) (May 29, 2020)
Who is "Karen" and Why Does She Keep Calling the Police on Black Men?,
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
Eddie Moore Jr., 21-Day Plans
Talking About Race, an online portal designed to help talk about racism, racial identity and the way these forces shape every aspect of society, from the economy and politics to the broader American culture.”
Verna Myers, How to Overcome Our Biases? Walk Boldly Toward Them, TED Talk (video)
John Biewen, Seeing White (14-part series podcast, 2017)
Janice Gassam, Your Unconscious Bias Trainings Keep Failing Because You’re Not Addressing Systemic Bias (Forbes, Dec. 29, 2019)
Michael Harriott, How to Be a Better White Person in 2020, The Root (Jan 9, 2020)
Cheryl I. Harris, Whiteness As Property, Harvard Law Review, Vol. 106 No. 8 (June 1993)