Personal Reflection

August 16, 2021

White Supremacy Culture: Still Here

Tema Okun provides an update to the original list of Traits of White Supremacy Culture published in 1999 with new perspectives on how fear, intersectionality, and other forces contribute to the perpetuation of white supremacy culture. 
February 19, 2021

National League of Cities’ Race, Equity, and Leadership (REAL) Initiative

NLC’s Race, Equity, And Leadership (REAL) initiative serves to strengthen local leaders’ knowledge and capacity to eliminate racial disparities, heal racial divisions, and build more equitable communities. Through training and online resources, REAL helps NLC members build safe places where people from all racial, ethnic and cultural backgrounds thrive socially, economically, academically and physically.
February 19, 2021

Nonprofit AF

A blog series by Vu Le with posts about how to incorporate a stronger equity lens into the nonprofit sector. Vu uses humor and real life examples to demonstrate how the sector falls short in many ways and how we can do better.
February 19, 2021

How to be an Anti-Racist

Ibram X. Kendi’s concept of antiracism reenergizes and reshapes the conversation about racial justice in America–but even more fundamentally, points us toward liberating new ways of thinking about ourselves and each other. Instead of working with the policies and system we have in place, Kendi asks us to think about what an antiracist society might look like, and how we can play an active role in building it. In his memoir, Kendi weaves together an electrifying combination of ethics, history, (more...)