Racial Justice and Advocacy: Websites & Online Resources

Provides guidance for having meaningful conversations about race.

This 21-day challenge provides "suggestions for readings, podcasts, videos, observations, and ways to form and deepen community connections."

Features select primary source documents related to critical people and events in African American history.

A campaign designed by Color of Change to end practices that unfairly hold Black people back, and champion solutions that move us all forward.

Provides a glossary of terms and acknowledges that "even the most frequently used words in any discussion on race can easily cause confusion, which leads to controversy and hostility."

Tips on “creating a safe space for people to be authentic and vulnerable, and to pave the way for future conversations.“

Article discusses how "companies can capitalize on the diversity they already have by including more diverse employees in business decisions at all levels."

Provides tips for creating productive classroom discussions about race.

Key terms are defined, recognizing that "Language can be used deliberately to engage and support community anti-racism coalitions and initiatives, or to inflame and divide them. Discussing definitions can engage and support coalitions. However, it is important for groups to decide the extent to which they must have consensus and where it is okay for people to disagree. It is also helpful to keep in mind that the words people use to discuss power, privilege, racism and oppression hold different meanings for different people. For instance, people at different stages of developing an analysis tend to attach different meanings to words like discrimination, privilege and institutional racism. Furthermore, when people are talking about privilege or racism, the words they use often come with emotions and assumptions that are not spoken."

List of resources compiled by Center for Racial Justice in Education.

Provides a guide on how to speak up against bigotry.

Includes information on Race and Racial Identity, Bias, and Being Anti-Racist from the National Museum of African American History and Culture.

Resources for facilitating a constructive classroom discussion about race, from Teaching Tolerance, a Southern Poverty Law Center project.

Identifies the daily effects of white privilege. Essay excerpted from Working Paper 189. "White Privilege and Male Privilege: A Personal Account
of Coming To See Correspondences through Work in Women's Studies" (1988).