Our Racial Justice Journey 
(Dec 29 - Jan 4)

This Week's Reading

The First Shall be Last, and the Last Shall be First: The Inversion of Racial Justice in the Second Trump Administration

-Antonio L. Ingram II, Carr-Ryan Center for Human Rights

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 Recent Racial Justice Journey Content

Our Readings 

"Whiteness" -National Museum of African American History & Culture

"Is It a Microaggression" -By Myron R. Anderson, Ph.D and Kathryn S. Young, Academic Impressions

“Community Building” -National Museum of African American History & Culture

“What I Learned from Practicing 'Radical Inclusion' for 30 Days” -Maria Bridge, Medium

“Who Gets to be Afraid in America” -The Atlantic

“How to Turn White Privilege into Antiracist Allyship” -WGBH

“Bias” -WGBH

“How White Women Can Use Their Privilege to End Racism” -Tikia K. Hamilton, PhD

“Home Is Where the Hatred Is” -The Atlantic

“Historical Foundations of Race” -National Museum of African American History & Culture

“How to Steal Things, Exploit People, and Avoid All Responsibility” -The Atlantic

“Code of Ethics for White Anti-Racists” -Tim Wise

“Self Care” -National Museum of African American History & Culture

“The 1619 Project” -New York Times

“Race and Racial Identity” -National Museum of African American History & Culture

“How Did We Get Here?” -The Atlantic

“Message to White Allies from a Black Anti-Racism Expert: You're Doing It Wrong” -Dr. David Campt

“How Can We Get the Black People to Cool It?” -James Baldwin

“The Anti-Racist Reading List” -The Atlantic

“Representative Barbara Lee on the Imperative of Reparative Justice” -Dana Guterman

“Understanding Culture and Diversity in Building Communities” -Community Tool Box

“The Impossible Dilemma of Black Female Leadership: The Tragedy of Nobody Seeing Us Even When Everybody's Watching” -by Shauna Knox (of Nonprofit Quarterly)

“Why the Fight for Racial Justice is a Human Rights Issue” -The ACLU

“I'm a Black Professor. You Don't Need to Bring That Up” -Tyler Austin Harper (The Atlantic)

“How Black Women in the South are Reclaiming Space” -Rebekah Barber, Nonprofit Quarterly

“Building Relationships with People from Different Cultures” -Community Tool Box

“A Conversation with Ava Duvernay: Resistance, Storytelling, and Film” -Ash Center, Harvard Kennedy School

“Work that White people can do to create a just world” -Jessica DuLong, CNN

“Where Is My Land?” -A poem by Kavon Ward

“Healing from the Effects of Internalized Oppression” - The Community Toolbox

“How Textbooks Taught White Supremacy” - The Harvard Gazette

“Being and Building Beloved Community: The Intersection of Culture and Economy” - The Harvard Gazette

“Anti-DEI Lawsuits Threaten Nonprofits, Philanthropies” - Nonprofit Quarterly

“Strategies and Activities for Reducing Racial Prejudice and Racism” - Community Tool Box

“White Supremacy: The Hidden Root of America's Mental Health Crisis” - Christian Ortiz

"The Long History of Discrimination in Job Hiring Assessments" - ACLU

“The Critical Theory of Love: Reconceptualizing Love for Social Justice” - Nonprofit Quarterly

“Ta-Nehisi Coates sees free speech as antidote to crisis of liberalism” - Jordan Howell, The Fire

“Creating Opportunities for Members of Groups to Identify Their Similarities, Differences, and Assets” - Community Tool Box, The University of Kansas

“Safety in Solidarity: How to Safeguard Movement Groups and Members” -Nonprofit Quarterly

“Building Culturally Competent Organizations” -Community Tool Box

“Trump's plan to dismantle DEI on day one is a ‘colorblind’ path to Jim Crow 2.0” -Shari Dunn, Salon

“What Does It Mean To Be an Anti-Racist?” -Brenda Álvarez, neaToday

“Black Women Have Been Marching Since Selma, We're Waiting the Next One Out” -Zuri Stevens

“Multicultural Collaboration” -Community Tool Box

“Transforming Conflicts in Diverse Communities” -Community Tool Box

“Scholars Thought White Women Were Passive Enslavers. They Were Wrong.” -New York Times 

“How the Normalization of Modern Anti-Immigrant Sentiments Unfolded” -Arturo Dominguez 

“The Klansman's Son Becomes Antiracist: How R. Derek Black unlearned a white nationalist upbringing”
-NPR Illinois

“Understanding Culture, Social Organization, and Leadership to Enhance Engagement“ -Community Tool Box

“Toward Solidarity: Reparations and Land Back on California's Horizon” -Nonprofit Quarterly

“Building Inclusive Communities” -Community Tool Box 

“Enhancing Cultural Competence” - Community Tool Box

“Dear white people, the holiday season is the best time to tell our grandparents to stop being racist” -Jordan Uhl, Independent

“White Christmas, White Santas, White Privilege” -Martha Pitts, Ms. Magazine

“'Racism requires ignorance’: How art and culture can help end racial discrimination” -Ana Carmo, UN News

“How I Changed My Holiday Traditions to Match My Values” -Zenobia Jeffries Warfield, Yes Magazine

“ The First Shall be Last, and the Last Shall be First: The Inversion of Racial Justice in the Second Trump Administration” -Antonio L. Ingram II, Carr-Ryan Center for Human Rights

Our Watch and Listening List

“Made in America" -Seeing White: S2:E3

“On Crazy We Built A Nation" -Seeing White podcast, S2:E4

“Little War on the Prairies” -Seeing White podcast: S1, EP 5

“That's Not Us, So We're Clean” -Seeing White Podcast, S2:E6

“Chenjerai's Challenge” -Seeing White Podcast, S2:E7

“Skulls and Skins” -Seeing White Podcast, S2:E8

“Racial Cleansing in America” -Seeing White Podcast, S2:E9

“Citizen Thind” -Seeing White Podcast, S2:E10

“Danger” -Seeing White Podcast, S2:E11

“My White Friends” -Seeing White Podcast, S2:E12

“White Affirmative Action” -Seeing White Podcast, S2:E13

“Transformation” -Seeing White Podcast, S2:E14

Bryan Stevenson: How We Arrived Here -Bryan Stevenson of the Equal Justice Initiative

"10 Documentaries to Watch About Race Instead of Asking a Person of Colour to Explain Things for You" -by Ben Clay

How to Resolve Racially Stressful Situations -Howard Stevenson, TEDX

Allegories on race and racism -Camara Jones, TEDX

A Democracy Post-Mortem: What Exit Poll Data Reveals About Race in America Today - Harvard Ash Center

“Dreaming of a Black Utopia in Trump's America” - NPR

“The police are our friends?” (How should Black parents talk to their kids about the police?)  -NPR

“Challenging the Whiteness of Public Radio” -NPR

“The Second Revolution” -The Land That Never Has Been Yet, E4

“The Message:Ta-Nehisi Coates on the Power of Writing & Visiting Senegal, South Carolina, Palestine" - Democracy Now

“Feminism in Black and White” -The Land That Never Has Been Yet, E5

“Freedom Summer” -The Land That Never Has Been Yet, E7

“Facing Race 2022: What's next for the movement for racial justice? What do we look forward to?” -Race Forward 

“Ta-Nehisi Coates On Why Books Scare People” -NPR

“Race & the Fight for Reproductive Justice”