Resources for Learning and Talking about Racism & Inequality

To assist you in managing through this time of social unrest, we have compiled a list of resources that may prove useful. These resources will assist you in beginning to engage in dialogues around some of the issues we grapple with as a society.

• Article: Why we need to talk about race? – Catalyst, Inc.
• Article: U.S. Businesses Must Take Meaningful Action Against Racism – Harvard Business Review
• Article: Easing Racial Tensions at Work – Center for Talent Innovation
• Resource Slides: Collection of resources from AAERG with many URLs included
• Article: Microaggressions Matter (The Atlantic)
• Article: What Your Employees Need Right Now is Compassion (Harvard Business Review)
• Video: How Great Leaders Inspire Action – Simon Sinek
• Video: The Power of Vulnerability – Brene Brown 
• Video: Leaders Eat Last – Simon Sinek
• Video: How to get serious about diversity and inclusion in the workplace – Janet Stovall
• Podcast: Unlocking Us with Brene Brown & Ibram Kendi
• Article: Check-in on Your Black Employees, Now
• Article: Corporate Voices Get Behind ‘Black Lives Matter’ Cause
• Article: Twitter, Square to Make Juneteenth a Company Holiday
• Article: How To Be A Good White Ally, According To Activists
• Article: Op-Ed: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: Don’t Understand Protests? What You’re Seeing Is People Pushed To The Edge
• Article: What PwC Is Doing To Stand Up Against Racism
• Article: Your Black Colleagues May Look Like They’re Okay -  Chances Are They’re Not
• Article: Code-Switching Is Not Trying to Fit in to White Culture, It’s Surviving It
• Video: Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man
• Video: Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man - Episode 2 with Matthew McConaughey

Tools for Challenging Conversations

• Infographic: Conversation Ground Rules – Catalyst, Inc
• Infographic: Conversation Roadblocks and How to Surmount Them – Catalyst, Inc.
• Website:  How to talk about race and explore your own beliefs

Addressing Bias

• Infographic: How to Combat Bias – Catalyst, Inc.
• Video: How to Outsmart Your Own Unconscious Bias, Valerie Alexander
• Video: Verna Myers – How to overcome our biases? Walk boldly toward them.
• Podcast: A New Way to Combat Bias at Work (Harvard Business Review)
• Article: Two Powerful Ways Managers Can Curb Implicit Bias (Harvard Business Review)

Recommended Books

• White Fragility, Robin Diangelo
• The Color of Law, Richard Rothstein
• How to be Anti-Racist, Ibram Kendi
• Stamped from the Beginning, Ibram Kendi
• Black Like Me, JH Griffin