Pick one of the Watch/Read/Listen resources listed below every day for 7 days. Diversify your understanding by selecting from resources in each category

Less than 10 minutes

• Watch this short video by SheKnows Media's program featuring kids explaining microaggressions, including how often they occur and their impact.

• Read about four strong women of color whose work was integral to the women’s suffrage and civil rights movements, but whose stories may not be well-known

• Watch this video from TED-Ed explaining how voting rights have changed since the first election in 1789, and outlining the history of the long fight for a more inclusive electorate.

• Read this article from PBS which offers perspective on the 2013 Supreme Court decision invalidating sections of the Voting Rights Act, and highlights the legislation advanced in states after the decision was handed down.

• Read this article by Monnica T. Williams, Ph.D. featuring both clinical & experiential observations of race-based stress and trauma and its impacts

• Read the transcript or watch the video from PBS discussing the racial 'care gap' and how this is perpetuated through individuals' implicit biases and systemic racism in healthcare structures

• Read "Becoming Less Defensive About White Privilege" , by Peter Marty, Editor of the The Christian Century magazine

• Watch "The U.S. Should Take Germany’s Lead on Facing Down a Violent History" Video of Bryan Stevenson talking about the importance of telling the truth about our past as a country. He contrasts our failure to do so with Germany, Rwanda, and South Africa.

• Watch "How Southern Socialites Rewrote Civil War History". A short documentary that tells the story of how the United Daughters of the Confederacy used their influence after the Civil War to idealize Southern Culture before the war and to minimize slavery as the primary cause of the war itself. It also tells the story of Confederate monuments

10 to 20 minutes

• Explore these examples of literacy tests and voter applications demonstrating how, prior to the Voting Rights Act in 1965, Southern states maintained elaborate voter registration procedures deliberately designed to deny the vote to BIPOC.

• Read the transcript of the interview with Sherrilyn Ifill of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, which discusses Wisconsin's election debacle and how the coronavirus has become a new tool of voter suppression

• Watch this short video about the history of institutional racism in American medicine and how racist 18th-century beliefs and practices are still leading to adverse health outcomes for BIPOC today.

• Read this article from the Smithsonian discussing how racist stereotypes led to approximately 20,000 people – many of them Latino/a – being forcibly sterilized in California and how this is echoed in the political landscape today.

• Read this article from Harvard taking a closer look at the inequities in our healthcare system for Black mothers

• Read "Explaining White Privilege To A Broke White Person", by Gina Crosley-Corcoran. Raised “the kind of poor that people don’t want to believe still exists in this country,” Crosley-Corcoran explores where race and class do and don’t intersect and how she’s come to understand her own white privilege.

• Read" Reflections from a Token Black Friend" by Ramesh A Nagarajah

• Read "Returning South: A family revisits a double lynching that forced them to flee to Chicago 100 years ago", by Dahlene Glanton, a Chicago Tribune article

• Read "10 Ways Well-Meaning White Teachers Bring Racism Into Our Schools", by Jamie Utt, a deep dive into our education system and teaching in particular, ten unique issues are discussed with lots of links to other articles related to the particular topic

More Than 20 Minutes

• Watch this video from PBS on how discussions & visual representations of racism and violence can trigger significant mental health stressors in communities impacted by those injustices

• Watch the film Suppressed: The #FightToVote, which uncovers the voter suppression tactics used in majority African-American communities across the country in 2015, from poll closures to voter purges

• Listen to this episode of NPR's Code Switch detailing the historical use of the Census, why many communities of color have expressed uneasiness around this data collection effort, and why it's critical to be counted in the 2020 Census.

• Listen to this podcast from NPR about the United States Supreme Court ruling that institutionalized the racist eugenics movement and led to 70,000 forced sterilizations of people of color and people with physical and mental disabilities.

• Read "The Disproportionate Risks of Driving While Black" by Sharon LaFraniere and Andrew W. Lehren

• Watch "Birth of a White Nation" , Keynote speech by legal scholar Jacqueline Battalora, offers a blow-by-blow description of the moment the idea of, and word for, “white” people entered U.S. legal code.

• Listen to NPR CodeSwitch Podcast "A Decade Of Watching Black People Die"

• Read "Understanding the Racial Wealth Gap, 2017 study" by Amy Traub, Laura Sullivan, Tatjana Mescheded, & Tom Shapiro analyzing the racial wealth gap that exists between white, black, and Latino households.

• Listen to "On Being with Krista Tippett -Eula BissTalking About Whiteness"