Racial Healing

From the AFL-CIO's Department for Professional Employees.

This webinar provides practical insights for journalists, educators and others working in news organizations who want to fight inequity and be better advocates for change.

Adapted with from the National Alliance of Mental Health (NAMI) Leadership Institute Self-Assessment
Worksheet by the NACE Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion Committee.

This tool is designed to help your organization better understand the status and identify action steps for increased the diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) within your organization. The assessment can be completed as a group exercise or individually, with responses aggregated for review and analysis.

nintended racial prejudices are deeply rooted in all U.S. institutions. Use this questionnaire to find out if they are part of your organization. The questions use a racial lens to size up staffing and operational aspects. The assessment then offers additional tools and next steps based on how the organization scores.

The Equity, Diversity Inclusion & Antiracism Toolkit is an educational resource that will help guide libraries in reflecting on their institutional practices and policies, and assist in guiding them to move forward.

This collection of antiracist resources is categorized in multiple ways to assist you in finding what you need in order to continue your own antiracist journey.

In the book Blindspot, the authors reveal hidden biases based on their experience with the Implicit Association Test. Project Implicit is graciously hosting electronic versions of Blindspot’s IATs.

Provides data on segregation between schools and school districts in the U.S. In the interactive map, users can visualized school segregation between racial/ethnic and economic groups in geographic areas from 1991-2022.

Currently, it is legal to discriminate against a person in the workplace, schools, and/or pools because of their natural or protective hairstyle in all states except for California, New York, New Jersey, Virginia, Colorado, Washington, Maryland, Connecticut, Delaware, New Mexico, Nebraska, Nevada, Oregon, Illinois, Maine, Tennessee, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Alaska, Michigan, Texas, Minnesota, Arkansas, and Vermont. Hair discrimination remains a source of racial injustice with serious economic consequences for Black people. The CROWN Act corrects these racial injustice by making race-based hair discrimination illegal. See more about the CROWN Act and the petition here.

NY Times interactive quiz on word terms.

Provides comparable data by race in critical life outcomes such as: incarceration rates, poverty rates, homeownership rates, and more.