Social justice learning resources
Work toward creating a fair and equal society where each individual matters, their rights are recognized and protected, and decisions are made that are fair and honest.
SPLC on Campus: A guide to bystander intervention
We can all find a way to safely take action that makes a difference. This guide provides those steps. It also examines how to prepare before you encounter such situations. As this guide makes clear, a little preparation can help you find a way to let someone know they are not alone and public harassment will not be tolerated.
SPLC on Campus
The Racial Healing Handbook: Practical Activities to Help You Challenge Privilege, Confront Systemic Racism, and Engage in Collective Healing
A powerful and practical guide to help you navigate racism, challenge privilege, manage stress and trauma, and begin to heal.
Anneliese A. Singh
We Do This ‘Til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice
A must read from organizer, educator and curator Mariame Kaba about the abolition of the prison industrial complex and organizing in general.
Mariame Kaba
Dismantling Racism Workbook
This workbook designed to support individuals and groups working to achieve racial equity.
https://www.dismantlingracism.org
White Supremacy Culture
This incredible website contain artwork, poetry, quotes, and videos from racial justice activists, ancestors, warriors, and healers.
White Supremacy Culture
Building Black Power: Dismantling Anti-Blackness in Our Institutions and Movements
This is a webinar for organizational leaders seeking to disrupt the ways anti-Blackness shows up within teams, organizations, and communities with Merle McGee and Fiona Kanagasingam.
Equity in the Center
Race Equity Cycle Pulse Check
This is a free, online tool. Every team who completes it automatically receives a Score Report that highlights their strongest and weakest levers and resources for moving to the next stage of the cycle.
Equity in the Center
Building Movement Project
BMP develops research, tools, training materials & opportunities for partnership that bolster nonprofits’ ability to support the power of the people they serve.
Building Movement Project
Organizing Upgrade Youtube Channel
An online journal and discussion space designed to engage left leaders and innovators in the field of community organizing in strategic dialogue.
Organizing Upgrade
Pedagogy Guide
A leadership pedagogy for women of color organizers by Trish Adobea Tchume & Aida Cuadrado Bozzo with Viveka Chen, Zuri Tau, Holiday Simmons, & Susan Wilcox.
Calling In & Up
The 1619 Project
The 1619 Project is an ongoing initiative from The New York Times Magazine that began in August 2019, the 400th anniversary of the beginning of American slavery. It aims to reframe the country’s history by placing the consequences of slavery and the contributions of black Americans at the very center of our national narrative.
The New York Times
Teaching For Diversity & Social Justice
For nearly a decade, Teaching for Diversity and Social Justice has been the definitive sourcebook of theoretical foundations and curricular frameworks for social justice teaching practice.
Maurianne Adams
Readings for Diversity & Social Justice
For over ten years, Readings for Diversity and Social Justice has been the go-to anthology for the broadest possible coverage of issues related to identity and oppression from a social justice perspective.
Maurianne Adams, Warren J. Blumenfeld, Carmelita Castaneda
Racial Equity Toolkit
Receive guidance in the development, implementation, and evaluation of policies, initiatives, and programs to address racial inequity.
The City of Seattle
Strategies and Activities for Reducing Racial Prejudice and Racism
Be more productive in working together to build healthy communities and reduce racial prejudice and racism.
Community Tool Box
Privilege Walk Lesson Plan
Conduct the Privilege Walk activity to highlight the complicated intersections of privileges and marginalization within a group.
Peace Learner
Resources for Discussing & Disrupting Racism
Discover resources on dealing with racism for various audiences.
Oakland Unified School District
National Equity Project
Connect to various resources that explore the National Equity Project’s approach to achieving educational equity.
National Equity Project
Racial Equity Tools
Offering tools, research, tips, curricula, and ideas for people who want to increase their own understanding and to help those working for racial justice at every level.
Racial Equity Tools
Allyship
Explore the definition, roles, and responsibilities of being an ally.
The Anti-Oppression Network
The Center for Racial Justice in Education
Explore a robust resource library of reading lists, reports, guides, and much more in various areas of work related to race and racial justice.
The Center for Racial Justice in Education
26 Mini-Films for Exploring Race, Bias and Identity With Students
Consider perspectives different from your own and challenge your biases and prejudices by viewing these mini-films.
New York Times
White Supremacy Culture
Better understand how white supremacy culture manifests in organization and how to repair it.
Kenneth Jones & Tema Okun
White Dominant Culture & Something Different
In the U.S., white, middle-class culture shapes the way organizations function. This worksheet examines why and the limitations and dangers of this norm, while also offering different viewpoints and perspectives.
Adapted for ACCE from an adaptation by Partners for Collaborative Change based on “White Supremacy Culture” by Tema Okun and Kenneth Jones
The Black suffragists you should know on the 19th Amendment’s 100th anniversary
Look back at some of the women who fought for the right to vote, though it took another half-century for their vision to be fully realized.
Fortune
Preventing Racial Inequity in Schools and Beyond
This assessment starts the journey for scholastic organizations toward effective action around racial equity.
Race Forward
Being 12: “People Think I’m Supposed to Talk Ghetto, Whatever That Is.”
Watch some straight talk from New York City middle-schoolers about race and what it’s like to grow up today.
WNYC
Community Builders Toolkit
This toolkit can help create healthy and productive interracial and multicultural communities.
Institute for Democratic Renewal, Project Change Anti-Racism Initiative
Introduction to Liberatory Coaching (ILC)
Coaching that can transform our social movements
Coaching for Healing, Justice, and Liberation
SWITCH PATHWAYS
We move through change each day – it is a constant in our lives. These are the building blocks of sustainability for living in this moment and throughout the long road ahead.
There can be a deep sense of urgency for change that drives us to action before we have fully aligned our purpose and outcomes. This can lead to disruptions, unnecessary conflict and ultimately failure of our plans. Here are valuable guides for aligning intention and action to save energy, resources and time.
To make change in our society, we need to understand the fundamentals of how decision making happens, in our teams, through our social identities, and in our systems of power.
Work for diversity, equity and inclusion achieves lasting impact when we orient our energy towards structural change and integrate structural change tools into our programs and operations. This pathway provides support for analyzing structures and transforming them for justice.
Breaking the status quo and opening up new possibilities for equity and freedom in our work requires innovative experiments. Teams must ensure that all members have the ability to act on the vision and goals they are co-creating.
Our minds cannot move toward racial justice, equity or transformation if our bodies are not prepared for change. This pathway offers those preparations that we have found most beneficial to adult learning.
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