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Black History is More than One Month, but February Matters
NPR, February 22, 2022
Black history is more than a month — and it's more than just the sanitized story of the same handful of heroes told over and over.
There's an ongoing debate about Black History Month. Does it uplift Black stories or does it segregate history? NPR's Sandhya Dirks reports while Black history is more than a month, February still matters, especially now.
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The Killing of Tyre Nichols and the Issue of Race
The New Yorker, January 31, 2023
American law enforcement can be expected, in any given year, to produce about a thousand fatal shootings in the course of executing its duty to protect and serve the public. This number is many multiples higher than those for the police departments of other Western democracies and, given the diversity of the U.S. population, occurs across an array of ethnic permutations between officers and civilians. Most deaths involve white officers who kill white civilians, but Black civilians are disproportionately represented among the dead, particularly in circumstances that involve white police.
In May, 2020, Derek Chauvin, a white officer, knelt on the neck of George Floyd, causing his death from “cardiopulmonary arrest,” and set off waves of outrage across the nation. Four years earlier, Philando Castile, a Black motorist, was shot and killed by Jeronimo Yanez, a Latino police officer, after he handed over his insurance card.
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Banned: Books on Race and Sexuality are Disappearing from Texas Schools in Record Numbers
NBC News, February 1, 2022
Facing pressure from parents and threats of criminal charges, some districts have ignored policies meant to prevent censorship. Librarians and students are pushing back....
From a secluded spot in her high school library, a 17-year-old girl spoke softly into her cellphone, worried that someone might overhear her say the things she’d hidden from her parents for years. They don’t know she’s queer, the student told a reporter, and given their past comments about homosexuality’s being a sin, she’s long feared they would learn her secret if they saw what she reads in the library.
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Gender Equality in 2022: The Best, the Worst, the Most Surprising, and the Most Ridiculous
United Nations Foundation, December 16, 2022
In 2022, the exhilarating highs for gender equality included a flourishing of solidarity from Mexico to Ukraine to Iran. An increasing number of governments adopted feminist foreign policies. In the U.S., Ketanji Brown Jackson became the first Black woman to sit on the Supreme Court while women were elected in record numbers to state legislatures, Congress, and governorships across the country.
The lows came with the rollback of girls’ and women’s rights worldwide through aggressive attacks and passive enforcement. In fact, girls and women still have only three-quarters of the legal rights of boys and men.
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Black Activist Burnout: 'You Can't Do This Work If You're Running On Empty'
NPR, August 10, 2020
When Imani Brown, a 38-year-old from San Francisco, hit the streets to protest the recent police violence against Black Americans, she felt inspired and energized. Her parents fought for racial justice before her, so her participation felt like a part of her inheritance.
"It is energizing for me to be carrying on the work that my parents were involved in. I'm sad that we haven't come farther in the years since my mother marching with Dr. King to now," she told NPR.
Brown is one of millions of people who showed up to protest police violence against Black people in the United States following the deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Elijah McClain and more.
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Engage EDI Commit Series
Online EDI course hosted by WashU's Academy for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. The first class in the series, "Community Commitments", has multiple dates available through March. The second class in the series, "Commit to Dialogue", has dates available in April.
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Equity First: The Path to Inclusion and Belonging
LinkedIn Learning Course
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National Equity Project: Freedom Dreaming
EDI Webinar Series
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2023 Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Conference
In-Person and Online Conference Hosted by Webster University
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Strategies to Support Centering Equity in Collective Impact
This podcast discusses the findings from a new article in the winter 2022 edition of the Stanford Social Innovation Review titled, "Centering Equity in Collective Impact." It provides deep-dive discussion with several of the articles’ authors to hear about what lessons they learned from collaboratives who are practicing deep equity work, and what strategies arose through the process.
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Racial Battle Fatigue: Insights from the Front Lines of Social Justice Advocacy
Excellent book highlighting how while many would like to believe we are living as "post-racial" America, long past the days of discrimination and marginalization of people simply due to their race and minority status. By sharing a multitude of personal stories, editor Jennifer L. Martin and a breadth of expert contributors show that prejudice and discrimination are still very much alive in the United States.
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Tomorrow Will Be Different: Love, Loss, and the Fight for Trans Equality
This timely and captivating memoir chronicles Sarah McBride's life, including the loss of her husband just days after they were married, work as an activist, and the key issues at the forefront of the fight for trans equality. The now Delaware state senator does not hold back, sharing thoughtful, personal stories of her own struggles, the freedom of coming out as trans, and what the future holds for all of us.
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Bee Love
This amazing black-owned business employs formerly incarcerated individuals as a way to offer them a second chance at establishing a new life. The company makes everything from honey to honey-infused skincare products like indulgent body balms and sugar scrubs.
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Sacha Cosmetics
Sacha began its operations in Trinidad and Tobago in 1979. The original idea was to create a beauty line that helped Caribbean women get representation, but now the brand has blossomed into one that's used by women of color everywhere.
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Brave + Kind Bookshop
Just visiting the Brave + Kind website will fill you with wonder. The diverse books offered focus on early readers and young adults, but there is an adult section offering recommendations to help us all do better as human beings.
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“I am lucky that whatever fear I have inside me, my desire to win is always stronger.”
– Serena Williams
“Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.”
– Harriet Tubman
“When we’re talking about diversity, it’s not a box to check. It is a reality that should be deeply felt and held and valued by all of us.”
– Ava DuVernay
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