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Mental Health:
Stop Weaponizing Mental Health For Your Anti-Blackness (Article, 2017)
White Fragility and the Mask of Mental Health (Article, 2019)

Antiracism:
Confronting racism is not about the needs and feelings of white people (Article: The Guardian)

Cultures:
White People Have No Culture (Article)
How to Decolonize Your Yoga Practice (Article)
What does it mean to be Decolonize a Museum? (Article, 2019)
White Entrepreneurs Need to Stop Capitalizing on Black Culture  (Article, 2020)

Disabilities:
Disability Etiquette
International Day of the Disabled Person (United Nations)
Goals and Benefits of Universal Design 

Inclusion:
"Mom, Why Don't You Have Any Black Friends?" (Article)
5 Things / Lessons From The Puppy (Article)
What Can Your Dog Teach You About Diversity & Inclusion? (Article)
Objective Hiring: What We Can Learn From Our Pets (Article)

Privilege:
Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack (Article)

Racism:
Racial Prejudice in the American Education System (Article, 2017)
18 Examples of Racism In the Criminal Legal System (Article, 2016)
How Racism & Patriarchy Is Taught At School (Article, 2018)
Conversation on Racism (YouTube Length 17 minutes)
How White People Can Hold Each Other Accountable to Stop Institutional Racism (Article)
Why Performance Activism Isn’t Enough For the Change We Need in 2019  (Article, 2019)

White Guilt/Savior/Supremacy
We Need Solidarity, Not White Guilt, to Fight Racism (Article)
How Can I Cure My White Guilt? (Article)
The Most Dangerous Person in American is the White Woman (Article, 2018)

Women's History
History.com: Women's History Month 2022
How to Celebrate Women's History Month: Ideas and Activities
National Women's History Museum
National Women's History Museum: Shop Products By Women, for Women
United Nations: International Women's Day - March 8, 2022 


Assessments


Bias: Harvard Implicit Association Test (each test approx. 7 minutes)

Books: (PURCHASE links to a Black owned bookstore in Connecticut)


Coaching:
Coaching Across Cultures by Philippe Rosinski

History of Black Diasporic Struggle:
A History of South Africa by Leonard Thompson
An African American and Latinx History of the United States (REVISIONING HISTORY) by Paul Ortiz
Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein
Walking with the Wind by John Lewis
The Mis-education of the Negro by Carter Woodson

The Intricacies of the Black Condition:
Black Like Me John Howard Griffin
Race for Profit Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America by Elizabeth Hinton
Acting White?: Rethinking Race in Post-Racial America by Ibram X. Kendi
America's Original Sin: Racism, White Privilege, and the Bridge to a New America by  Jim Wallis
White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide by Carol Anderson
The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap by Mehrsa Baradaran
Come Hell or High Water: Hurricane Katrina and the Color of Disaster by Michael Eric Dyson
Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow by Henry Louis Gates Jr.

Self-reflective texts on racism/ antiracism:
“How to Be an Antiracist” by Ibram X Kendi (PURCHASE)
“Stamped From the Beginning” by Ibram X Kendi (PURCHASE)
“Stamped” by Jason Reynolds (PURCHASE)
“I’m Still Here” by Austin Channing Brown (PURCHASE)
“Waking Up White & Finding Myself In the Story of Race” by Debbie Irving (PURCHASE)
“White Fragility“ by Robin DiAngelo (PURCHASE)
“White Like Me” by Tim Wise
“The Sum of Us” by Heather McGhee (PURCHASE)
46 Books Authored by Women of Color (2018 list)

Children Focus Resources


DEIB Challenges:



Films and TV series to watch:


13th (Ava DuVernay) — Netflix
American Son (Kenny Leon) — Netflix
Black Power Mixtape: 1967-1975 — Available to rent
Blindspotting (Carlos López Estrada) — Hulu with Cinemax or available to rent
Clemency (Chinonye Chukwu) — Available to rent
Dear White People (Justin Simien) — Netflix
Fruitvale Station (Ryan Coogler) — Available to rent
I Am Not Your Negro (James Baldwin doc) — Available to rent or on Kanopy
If Beale Street Could Talk (Barry Jenkins) — Hulu
Just Mercy (Destin Daniel Cretton) — Available to rent for free in June in the U.S.
King In The Wilderness — HBO
See You Yesterday (Stefon Bristol) — Netflix
Selma (Ava DuVernay) — Available to rent for free in June in the U.S.
The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution — Available to rent
The Hate U Give (George Tillman Jr.) — Available to rent for free
When They See Us (Ava DuVernay) — Netflix

Glossary of Terms:



Podcasts:


Brené Brown's Podcast on Shame and Accountability as social justice tools (and several others Ibram Kendi, Austin Channing Brown, etc.)
21 Fierce Black Feminists to Follow On Instagram (2017 list)
Seeing White (Scene On Radio - 13 one-hour episodes)
1619 (New York Times)
About Race
Code Switch (NPR)
Intersectionality Matters! hosted by Kimberlé Crenshaw
Momentum: A Race Forward Podcast
Nice White Parents (Serial and The New York Times)
Pod For The Cause (from The Leadership Conference on Civil & Human Rights)
Pod Save the People (Crooked Media)

TedTalks/Short Video Clips/YouTube


Allyship:
5 Tips For Being An Ally: YouTube: Chescaleigh (Length: 4 minutes)

Antiracism:
Anti-racism activist Jane Elliott & Roland Martin 2017 WCTF Conference Keynote Address (Length: 1 hour 32 minutes)

Cultures:
White People Have No Culture (Article)
How to Decolonize Your Yoga Practice (Article)
The Problem w/ White Beauty Standards | Decoded (YouTube 4 minutes)
What does it mean to be Decolonize a Museum? (Article, 2019)
Why we Need to Decolonize the Brooklyn Museum (YouTube 5 minutes)
White Entrepreneurs Need to Stop Capitalizing on Black Culture  (Article, 2020)

LGBTQ
Decolonizing Gender: Trans Rights is an Indigenous Issue (presentation)
Pre-colonial Attitudes to Sex and Gender Fluidity (YouTube Length 6 minutes)

Racism:
Racism in the US (Length 4 minutes from 2014)
Racism in the Medical Industry dating back to Slavery (Length 29 minutes from 2016)
Mass Incarceration: Pathways to Prison (Length 10 minutes from 2017)
Conversation on Racism (YouTube Length 17 minutes)
The House We Live In (Vimeo - 26 minutes) or 6 minutes (Racism in the Housing Market)
Dangers of a Single Story (TedTalk 18 minutes)
How Racist Are You?  Jane Elliott's Blue Eyes/Brown Eyes Exercise - Updated version with
adults https://youtu.be/Nqv9k3jbtYU (47 minutes)
Doll Test (YouTube 9 minutes)

White Guilt/Savior/Supremacy
What to avoid Acting like a white savior (Twitter Video 3 minutes, 2017)

Websites:


Antiracism:
Opportunities for White People in the Fight for Racial Justice  (website)
Antiracist Resources from Brené Brown’s webpage

Black History:
https://blackfacts.com/ (website)
Black Inventors (website)

White Guilt/Savior/Supremacy
NoWhiteSaviors (website)