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Discipline
Locked out of the classroom: how implicit bias contributes to disparities in school discipline
Students of color with disabilities are being pushed into the school-to-prison pipeline, study finds
Biased Discipline at My School
Putting a Definition Back in Defiance
Discipline Disproportionality Myths & Facts
How school suspensions push black students behind (The Atlantic)
Teachers of all races are more likely to punish black students
One school district is fighting decades of 'punishment culture'
UK schools have targeted black children for generations
Years of reform efforts contribute to declining African-American suspension rates
From preschool to prison: the criminialization of Black girls
Austin schools suspend Black students nearly 5 times as often as White students
A teenager didn't do her online schoolwork. So a judge sent her to juvenile detenion
The inanity of Zoom School Suspensions
Black kids are way more likely to be punished in school than White kids, study finds (Vox)
How schools are 'spirit murdering' Black and Brown students (Bettina Love) (PDF)
Teaching isn't about managing behavior (On Atlantic)
How the pandemic has altered school discipline- perhaps forever
Tennessee discipline bill raises concerns about potential bias against Black or disabled students
Building the school to justice pipeline
When school dress codes discriminate
A new report shows how racism and bias deny Black girls their childhoods
Pre-school to prison: the criminalization of Black girls
Texas 11-year old suspended for wearing his hair in braids
A 4-year old child is not a problem. And expulsion is not a solution.
Schools are sending kids to virtual classes as punishment. Advocates say that could violate rights.
Why, really, are so many Black kids suspended? No, it's not because they misbehave more
'Dads on duty' prove parent-led initiatives are effective alternatives to police in schools
Proviso West High School security guard charged after video shows apparent attack
New documents prove Tennessee County disproportionately jails Black children, and it's getting worse
In a California Desert, Sheriff's Deputies Settle Schoolyard Disputes. Black Teens Bear the Brunt.
Tiny wrists in cuffs: how police use force against children
School safety concerns push Black and Latinx parents to homeschool their kids
Black girls are fighting back against discriminatory school dress codes
MPS data shows disproportionate number of Black student suspensions
The price kids pay: schools and police punish students with costly tickets for minor misbehavior
How changing schools' culture of discipline paves the way for inclusivity
Dallas sees positive results in first year of discipline reform
How does student-teacher matching affect suspensions for students of color?
From slavery to school discipline
We know suspensions & expulsions are bad for preschoolers. What are some alternatives?
Black girls are 4.19 times more likely to get suspended than white girls
For Black boys, tweenhood coincides with criminalization
Black, Hispanic students blocked from class for missing class
Black students don't need your 'tough love.' They need compassion.
Handcuffs in hallways: hundreds of elementary students arrested at U.S. schools
Police in schools have outsize effect on Black children
How Black families can fight for fair discipline in school
Black students feel less welcome at schools with excessive suspensions
Breaking the school-to-prison cycle for kids with disabilities
We analyzed over 3.5 million written teacher comments about students and found racial bias
New data: over 100 elementary-aged children arrested in U.S. schools
Fed up Black moms take on the School to Prison Pipeline
Trauma-informed approaches to discipline matter for equityable and safe schooling
Schools say dress codes promote discipline. But many Black students see traces of racism
Why Race Matters in Education
How choosing a school made me realise my daughter is not white
Police killings traumatize high school students and hurt academic performance
When SEL is used as another form of policing
Race, power, and minority parent participation
How discrimination shapes parent-teacher communication
Don't let online education turn into the next crisis that hits people of color hardest
The weaponization of Whiteness in schools
Confronting the weaponization of Whiteness in classrooms
I was a racist teacher and I didn't even know it
14 disturbing stats about racial inequality in American public schools
How public schools fail to recognize Black prodigies
Lawsuit challening N.Y. City schools segregation targets gifted programs
Dismantling systemic racism in schools: 8 big ideas
How systemic racism infiltrates education
Dear educators, it is time to fight for Asian America
Teaching a new generation about history of racist ideas
To understand structural racism, look to our schools
Why Black teachers walk away from teaching
Why won't society let Black girls be children?
What we know about the cirtical race theory controversy, impact on education
Why the academic achievement gap is a racist idea
Homeroom: I'm concerned about wokeness at my child's school
If only there were a viral video of our Jim Crow education system
ProPublica: Miseducation (variuos education metrics by race)
4 ways racial inequity harms American schoolchildren
Making space for tough talks in class
Ten examples from Black students that reveal a pattern of racism at elite high schools
As states place new limits on class discussions of race, research suggests they benefit students
Unlearning: Kindness, Color Blindness and Racism
Students of color deserve to see themselves in their school curriculum
A framework for conversations about race in schools (featuring Glenn Singleton)
NYC to eliminate 'gifted' test in overhaul of segregated program
Utah mom concerned over teacher's "slavery" game
I lead classroom conversations about race. But I need more help.
There's no equity in education without truth-telling, ethnic studies and antiracist curriculum
5 reasons instructional materials matter for equity
Children are not colorblind: how young children learn about race
What happens to middle school kids when you teach them about slavery? Here's a vivid example.
How to make your equity policy a reality
Putting the spotlight on racial disparity in speech therapy
Ask or aks? How linguistic prejudice perpetuates inequality
Reading diverse and inclusive books teaches children empathy, experts say
'Give the children the poems and stories of their own people'
Ignoring racism in schools actually increases prejudice
Lynching is now a federal crime. Good luck teaching kids why.
I was constantly bullied being a Black student in one of Indiana's whitest districts
The teacher trying to add 'black joy' into lessons
A campus more colorful than reality: beware the college brochure
This Harlem teacher shares her love of literature and how she's promoting diverse authors
Children's books need to watch their (skin) tone
National Education Data: K-12 enrollment more racially diverse compated to a decade ago
U.S. schools are not racially integrated, despite decades of effort
Fighting for Our Lives: preparing teachers to teach African American students
Saint Paul Public Schools unanimously supports smudging in classrooms
Hechinger Report: To counter educator bias, we need more Black teachers in our classrooms
Few Black men become school psychologists. Here's why that matters.
The First A.P. African American Studies class is coming this fall
Wisconsin schools are not meeting state mandate on Native American education
How a Colorado school district changed its reading curriculum to better reflect students
Race in college admissions is back in front of the Supreme Court. Here's what to know
Is racism in the U.S. getting worse? Study shows minority children experiencing more discrimination
We must support the teachers who will be in charge of expanding Native history lessons
Schools can't afford to lose any more Black male educators
The Black male teacher shortage won't change until America learns to 'love Black boys'
Solving the Black male educator shortage
White teachers often talk about Black students in racially coded ways
School Board openings are an opportunity for equity
Cracking the code on STEM success for Black and Brown students
Why nearly half of Black students have considered stopping college
I've been code-switching since kindergarten
How segregated schools led Black deaf students to develop their own form of American Sign Language
Autism now more common among Black, Hispanic kids in the U.S.
Black teacher sues district over students' racist behavior, lack of discipline
How music education in America is deeply rooted in anti-Blackness
These teachers are ensuring school is a fun, safe space for Black children
What we know about teacher race and outcomes
Stop talking about gaps in education, talk about harm
Are recommendation letters a form of discrimination?
First Civil Rights data since COVID reveals racial divide in advanced classes
Department of Ed data confirms what we already knew about the education of Black and Brown kids
Survey: Teens divided on teaching race, gender identity- like their parents
Diversity in Wisconsin's high schools and the future of DEI in higher education
Beyond February: building Black futures all year, not just for 'history' month
Racism in schools: a long-standing legacy of cultural assimilation
Things are gonna get easier: refusing schooling as a site of Black suffering
Wisconsin will now require Asian American history to be taught in schools
Antiracist Education
10 things every white teacher should know when talking about race
Were all your teachers white? I've often been the only one who looks like my students
Dr. Bettina Love: "we're teaching Black kids survival tactics rather than how to thrive."
Here are concrete actions White people can take to fight racial injustice
How Ibram X Kendi's definition of antiracism applies to schools
Anti-racist work in schools: Are you in it for the long haul?
What antiracist teacher do differently? (The Atlantic)
All students need anti-racism education
Advice for the newly woke White teachers on teaching Black children
How White educators can approach antiracist work
6 ways to be an antiracist educator
Why we need antiracist education system
5 disturbing signs that you might not be an antiracist after all
Anti-racist curriculum: how to talk to your kids about Black History
Teachers, we cannot go back to the way things were (Bettina Love)
An essay for teachers who understand racism is real (Bettina Love)
6 things anti-racist educators want grown-ups to know about teaching and raising kids
The false promise of anti-racism books
Do conversations about race belong in the classroom?
Learning, reflecting and taking action to integrate anti-racism into our teaching
A guide to equity and antiracism for educators
How to build an antiracist workplace
Educate to liberate: build an anti-racist classroom
An antiracist roadmap for discussing tough topics in class
6 things White kids say about race that parents should call out
What it means to be antiracist (VOX)
Yes, America is racist. No, you shouldn't teach my kids if you disagree.
No, you should not be teaching Black children if you reject anti-racism
How to teach about racism, without guilt or shame
Caring for Black girlhood in the classroom
What's missing from the discourse about anti-racist teaching
How to lay the groundwork for antibias and antiracist teaching
Here's what it really looks like to lead an anti-racist organization
English teachers must be anti-racist, national group says
How a school district got caught in a Virginia's political maelstrom
Schools can't address racism until they acknowledge how they got to this point
Let's reflect, what do we mean when we say inclusion?
More than a month: for my 4th grade teacher, Mrs. James
It never seems to be a good time to talk about teachers' racism
Principal Kafele on developing an equity mindset
How to train an antiracist teachers
How this national teacher of the year dives into history lessons about race and oppression
What do classroom conversations about race, identity and history really look like?
First-ever study of Mexican-American school desegregation finds marksed gains for Chicano students
Student Voice: Here's why my high school and others must address anti-Asian racism
Navigating responses to racism in your school community
Schools must do more to support Black students
Adults have power. Students don't. Cleveland schools aim bias lessons at staff.
Stop measuring Black kids with a white stick: how to make school assessments fairer for all.
4 tips for school leaders starting DEI work
Schools must do a better job teaching anti-racism
When local schools fail Black kids, our groups provide support, love and hope
The unintended consequences of Brown v. Board: a 'brain drain' of Black educators
This teacher keeps an empty chair in his classroom. Here's why other schools are doing the same.
Why schools' going back to 'normal' won't work for students of color
How to change the story about students of color
Research: math teachers in virtual classes deem girls & Black students as less capable
NAACP targets a new civil rights issue- reading
Disparities in advanced math and science skills begin by kindergarten
Culturally Responsive Teaching favors depth over breadth
He teachers, please remain alert to racial prejudice and discrimination
The mis-education of Black students: teaching the truth in a time of oppression
Is it 'woke' to teach kindness? With teachers' hands tied, racism flourishes in classrooms
Inclusion, equity, and honors classes in name only
Black community college enrollment is plummeting. How to get those students back.
A husband and wife reimagine fairy tales with Black children in mind
10-year-old's stand on racism stuns Oregon City Council meeting
An age-by-age guide to talking to kids about race
Plenty of Black college students want to be teachers, but something keeps derailing them
Racial gaps in math have grown. A school tried closing theirs by teaching all kids the same classes.
How school choice left Black children with scraps for their education
Making assessments more equitable for multilingual learners
Celebrate linguistic diversity in your classroom
A classroom where everyone feels welcome
Study: weighing high school context could be the key to college diversity
5 strategies to help Black students feel at home in school
Pittsburgh Public Schools will change math instruction to be more equitable
How Black female teachers enrich science with anti-racism
A new student made me rethink my classroom culture - and the ways it marginalizes students
This California school district made a difference on Black students' scores
How colleges seek to increase diversity without relying on race in admissions
As states limit Black history lessons, Philly gets it right, researchers says
In Florida, children now need permission slips to hear Black people talk? Parent is outraged
New study: two-thirds of teachers censor themselves even when they don't have to
Teacher explains equity, tells students why they can't be treated equally
Bettina Love: "if we can engineer inequality, we can engineer equality"
Education reform as social justice: the legacy of Washington's Ramona Edelin
Race Inequality/Racial Equity
The value of interracial facilitation of racial equity training
Five charts that will change the way you think about racial inequality
How to be an antiracist educator
How to be an antiracist (From the Guardian)
The problem with the equity vs equality graphic
Diversity, Inclusion and Equity through Mindfulness
Why some people live where they do, in segregated metropolitan Milwaukee
Milwaukee neighborhoods slid after factory jobs vanished
Milwaukee's staggering black-white economic divide
Report: Metro Milwaukee's Black students are the most hypersegregated in the nation
The problem with that new equity vs. equality cartoon you're sharing
How not to be an ally: a list of rules for anti-racist advocacy
Race in the heartland: Wisconsin's extreme racial disparity
Faces of Power: 80% are White, even as U.S. becomes more diverse
3 practices to promote equity in the classroom
Black unemployment jumps to more than double the shrinking White jobless rate in December
The worst cities for Black Americans
Pandemic, protests, cause racism to resonate as a public health issue
Pew Research Center: views of racial inequality
12 charts show how racial disparities persist across wealth, health, education and beyond
How inequitable policies shape Milwaukee's homicide rate
What happens after your town declares racism a public health crisis?
Why the racial wealth gap is so hard to close
America's infrastructure is a crisis of inequity
Corporate landlords profit from segregation, at cost of Black homeownership and wealth
Racism displaced Chicago-area Black families. This man wants to pay tribute to them.
From data to action: Addressing racial disparities in Milwaukee's traffic fatalities
Interactive map: inside U.S. School segregation by race & class
Microaggressions
13 microaggressions Black people deal with all the time
Implicit bias and microaggressions (Edutopia)
14 words that carry a coded meaning for Black people
Your comments about my son are microaggressions
Coded language is part of our racist education system
Stop talking in code- call them Black boys
9 people reveal a time they racially stereotyped a stranger
Racial microaggressions in everyday life
What is tone policing and why is it wrong?
Microaggressions and straight-up racism are exhausting to Black people
33 microaggressions that educators commit daily
PBIS article on microaggressions and what to do about them
6 everyday comments and questions that are actually racist
Microaggressions at work: recognizing & overcoming our biases
Microaggressions in the workplace: how to identify & respond to them
Examples of workplace microaggressions and how to reduce them
Microaggressions are the 'norm' for Black people at work. Here's proof.
Like thug and woke- 'classless' is the new way to call Black people the N-word
Man's eye-opening story about taking 'a black walk' in a white neighborhood goes viral
What are racial microaggressions? How to recognize subtle racism
Bias
Black girls are viewed as less innocent than white girls starting at age 5: study
Mizzour Athletics Bias in Marketing
Richard Sherman: 'Thug' is accepted way of calling someone N-word
Don't talk about implicit bias without talking about structural racism
Headlines bias comparing Meghan Markle to Kate Middleton
White hero, sidekick of color: why Marvel needs to break the cycle
Making people aware of their implicit biases doesn't usually change minds
Mindful Reflection Protocol: A process for checking unconscious bias
Mindfulness and transforming bias
You're more racist than you think: how mental biases perpetuate racism and how to fix them (Forbes)
White and female teachers show racial bias in evaluating second grade writing
Checking yourself for bias in the classroom
5 keys to challenging implicit bias
Trayvon Martin and implicit bias
Can we overcome racial bias? 'Biased' author says to start by acknowledging it
American Educator magazine: Confronting Bias in Schools
Teacher bias: the elephant in the classroom
New study finds black teens face racial discrimination 5 times a day on average
Black girls are viewed as less innocent than White girls start at age 5: study
How mindfulness can help you break your unconscious biases
Four ways teachers can reduce implicit bias
All teachers should be trained to overcome their hidden biases
A Q&A with social psychologist Jack Glaser on racial bias and policing
To overcome unconscious bias, you must recognize that it's deeply ingrained in your brain
Principals show bias in response to Black parents, new study shows
Cognitive Biases: what they are and how they affect people
Teachers are people too: examining the racial bias of teachers compared to other American adults
4 ways to fight bias in grading
CBS, Al Jazeera criticized for 'Explicit Bias' in reporting on Ukraine Invasion
We need to talk about why we still see CEOs as white men (and how to challenge that)
Study: Black girls viewed as less innocent than whites
This is the difference between racism and racial bias
Unconscious bias training is 'nonsense,' says Civil Rights stalwart Colin Prescod
Black patients dress up and modify speech to reduce bias, California survey shows
Disrupt your vulnerable decisions with these simple solutions
When it comes to double standards for Black women, Angel Reese is the tip of the iceberg
Canva faces backlash for listing Black hairstyle as an 'unsafe' search result
AI is biased. The White House is working with hackers to try to fix that
Systemic Racism
How ZIP Codes Determine the Quality of a Child's Education
What's lost when black children are socialized into a white world (The Atlantic)
Living White Black Headlines (Baratunde Thurston)
Milwaukee County declares racism a public health crisis
Inside the most incarcerated zip code in the country
The battle to be: how internalized racism impacts people of color in America
The BMI scale is racist and useless. Here's how to measure health instead.
Is this the beginning of the end of American racism? (The Atlantic)
Black homeowners face discrimination in appraisals
Black newborns 3 times more likely to die when looked after by White doctors
Black Milwaukeeans are generally worse off today than 50 years ago
What happens when Milwaukee 53206 residents can't go where the jobs are
Health problems take root in a West Baltimore neighborhood that is sick of neglect
Millions of Black people affected by racial bias in health care algorithms
A broken parole process: data shows widened racial bias (New York State)
Ibram X Kendi: How racism relies on arbitrary hierarchies
How has media perpetuated racism when covering the Black community?
Discussing anti-Asian history and its societal effects today
10 signs of institutionalized racism
Systemic racism explained: four dimensions of racism and how to be part of the solution
What is systemic racism? Here's what it means and how you can help dismantle it
11 terms you should know to better understand structural racism
A look at housing inequality and racism in the U.S.
What is systemic racism? Here's what it means and how you can help dismantle it
Systemic racism explained: four dimensions of racism and how to be part of the solution
Why a colorblind approach to economic policy doesn't work in closing the racial wealth gap
Kentucky mom exposes Walmart for pricing Black doll higher than the same White version
Understanding environmental racism and its affect on Black Americans
Where State Farm sees 'a lot of fraud' Black customers see discrimination
Why Black neighborhoods are valued less than other neighborhoods
Black grads aren't making bad decisions about student loan debt
This is environmental racism (Washington Post)
We can't achieve racial justice without obtaining housing justice
Black Milwaukee residents significantly more likely to experience police stop and frisk report says
How structural racism plays a role in lowering credit scores
Systemic Racism black Americans face explained in 9 charts
I was given a house for free- but it already belonged to someone else
Racism, not a lack of assimilation, is the real problem facing Latinos in America
158 resources to understand racism in America
Black couple win discrimination case after their house value was lowballed
Crosley Green returning to prison years after Florida murder conviction was overturned
Reconnecting Milwaukee- a bikeable study of opportunity, equity and connectivity
Robin Voss is wrong: systemic racism is the problem, not DEI
How Chicagoans try to bridge the city's deep, persistent segregation
Black children are drowning. Race and poverty should not be barriers to swim lessons.
Historical Context
We need to talk about slavery's impact on all of us
6 myths about the history of Black people in America
Honoring the unforgivable: the horrific acts behind the names on America's infamous monuments
The false narrative of the post-racial America!
Milwaukee has long history of protests
If we're going to tackle systemic racism, we need to rethink how we teach history
The rich history of African American activism in Wisconsin (Reggie Jackson)
Reggie Jackson: Explaining about the persistence of racism in America
Racially restrictive covenants: the making of all-White suburbs in Milwaukee County (UW-M)
Redlining, racial covenants, and suburbia: How Milwaukee became a hyper-segregated city
Post traumatic slave syndrome is a racist idea
This Supreme Court case made school district lines a tool for segregation
A brief history of how racism shaped interstate highways
The player who nearly integrated baseball in 1905
You can't tell the story of 1776 without talking about race and slavery
Jim Crow in the United States: a brief guide to the racial segregation laws
How Plessy v. Ferguson turned dissent into a badge of honor
What we really lose when highways destroy historic neighborhoods
It's time to dismantle America's residential caste system
The racist history of America's interstate highway boom
Why Paul WIlliams, Hollywood's most proligic Black architect, drew upside down
The forgotten history of segregated swimming pools and amusement parks
Racial reckoning turns focus to roadside historical markers
The historical legacy of Watch Night
How Black Americans used portraits and family photographs to defy stereotypes
400 years since slavery: a timeline of American history
A second look at the blue-eyes, brown-eyes experiment that taught third-graders about racism
Dear America: we have heard your whitewashed version of history. It is time you hear the truth.
The whole US is southern. How our troubled racial history went national.
America's long history of Black voter suppression
The tragic story behind Billie Holiday's "Strange Fruit"
Redlining: the racist history behind racial wealth gap
The long history of racism against Asian Americans in the U.S.
Amazon's union's Chris Smalls is part of the legacy of Black labor organizing
Legacy of Jim Crow still affects funding for public schools
Every generation of Black Americans has had a Rodney King moment
The first Decoration Day (Memorial Day)
The Juneteenth Flag, explained
What is redlining and how can it be solved?
The long, ongoing debate over 'all men are created equal'
Historical foundations of race
'Land rich, cash poor'- how Black Americans lost some of the most desirable land in the U.S.
Important moments in Black LGBTQ+ history
Here's one reason why America's racial wealth gap persists across generations
Gen Z Historian Kahil Greene uses TikTok to combat whitewashed depictions of Black History
Slavery remembrance day should be on all our calendars
In 2 U.S. cities haunted by race massacres, facing the past is painful and divisive
Airbnb announces ban on slave cabin rentals // Airbnb examines racial inequality on its platform
Meet Wall Street's first Black millionaire who turned opportunity to fortune
The Black history of mapping racism in the United States
Black history is American history. We must face facts, face fears and face forward
Freedom, justice, brotherhood, equality: the lasting lessons of Milwaukee's Freedom School boycotts
How white people stole affirmative action - and ensured its demise
When did slavery really end in the U.S.? The complicated history of Juneteenth
The story we've been told about Juneteenth is wrong
Juneteenth, Jim Crow and a Black family who fought for freedom
Juneteenth, the newest federal holiday, is gaining awareness
They marched for desegregation- then they disappeared for 45 days
Relative of Oscarville resident shares history behind the city underneath Lake Lanier
Don't tread on me: the interesting history of an iconic American flag
Native trive to get back land 160 years after largest mass hangind in US history
200 days of tension: former NAACP youth council commando remembers fair housing marches
The history and impact of Wisconsin's only school integration program
The untold stroy of the Black pilgrims of Plymouth Colony
14 vintage photos show what life was like in the historic neighborhood during the Harlem Renaissance
A New Orleans neighborhood confronts the racist legacy of a toxic stretch of highway
The grim history of Christmas for Enslaved People in the Deep South
What was Christmas like for Slaves in America?
1619 Project creator has been attacked for revealing heartbreaking truths. Listen to her
Bettina Love examines the impact of education policies on Black students and what we can do next
70 years after Brown vs Board of Education, public schools still segregated
The price of being first: effort to rename Brown vs Board reveals family's pain
The Black history that isn't taught: historians share lesser known moments in U.S. racial history
The little known history of Black History Month
Black history/white lies: the 10 biggest myths about the Civil Rights Movement
Black History/ white lies: 5 ways Black people built America
History should have done better by Claudette Colvin
Auer Avenue honors eugenics champion
I hated history until I learned about Shirley Chisholm
The legacy of Vel Phillips continues to inspire generations of women leaders
For nearly 50 years, only Black men caddied The Masters. One day, they all but vanished.
Whiteness
White Fragility- Robin DiAngelo
What happened when my school started to dismantly White supremacy culture
White Supremacy once meant David Duke and the Klan. Now it refers to much more.
White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack (Peggy McIntosh)
Detour-Spotting for White antiracists (Joan Olsson)
Characteristics of White Supremacy Culture (from Dismantling Racism by Jones and Okun)
This equity picture is actually White Supremacy at work
The Classrical Roots of White Supremacy
The unbearable Whiteness of being in food media right now (and what we can do to change it)
Confronting racism is not about the needs and feelings of white people
Paying attention to White culture and privilege: a missing link to advancing racial equity
I joke about my husband's White Privilege. Until it wasn't funny.
Why White people think we are are better than everyone else. It's not intentional, but we do.
6 things white kids say about race that parents should call out now (article and short video)
Breaking up with white supremacy was always the end game
10 reasons White people don't want to talk about racism
White nationalism isn't only immoral, it's suicide for America
How to avoid becoming a white savior
NYTimes: White Fragility is everywhere but does antiracism training work?
Equality feels like oppression to White people, and we know why
Straight White Male: the lowest difficulty setting there is
What happens when White people become the minority in America?
Why is whitewashing still happening in comics?
If you rise, I fall: equality is prevented by the misperception that it harms advantaged groups
I taught my 4th grade class about white privilege and their response was eye opening
How whiteness was invented and fashioned in Britain's colonial age of expansion
Calling in our white male colleagues
What white people pretend not to understand about racism
We're watching white anxiety turn into violent rage
LSU's Angel Reese and other Black Women are Held to Unfair Standards in Public
This 1st grader's hairstyle represents his native american roots. His school isn't having it.
Claudine Gay, white outrage and the myth of the 'diversity hire'
Using Your Privilige/Allyship
My White friend asked me on Facebook to explain White Privilege. I decided to be honest.
Olive Garden customer loudly demanded a nonblack server- and the manager complied / Employee, 16, to file lawsuit after customer requested white server
Community rallies to support Cedarburg family who says they received racist letter
Here's how you can be unintentionally racist- and how allies can recover
Speak up against hateful rhetoric
Check yourself: why self-reflecting on privilege matters
Of smog and moving walkways: understanding prejudice, privilege and racism
This is what White privilege looks like at your workplace
Why it's important to think about privilege- and why it's hard
Explaining White privilege to a broke White person
Got internalized White superiority? The danger of denial and the promise of another way
103 things White people can do for racial justice
How to talk to White family members and friends who just don't understand their privilege
12 ways to be a White ally to Black people
George Takei on standing up to racism, then and now
How to respond when someone makes a racist comment
Ally or co-conspirator? What it means to act #insolidarity
5 ways to start being a better ally for your Black coworkers
How to help the fight against systemic racism
It turns out, all those 'woke' White allies were lying
When to call someone out or call them in over racist behavior
Use your everyday privilege to help others
Ally & Accomplice: Two sides of the same coin
Allyship- the key to unlocking the power of diversity
A guide to how you can support marginized communities
Be warned: for influences, social justice is no more than a branding device
Racelighting and inauthentic allyship: how to recognize it, and how to change it
Privileged people oppose even 'win-win' pro-equality policies
Talking about Race
Talking about race in mostly white schools
Nothing to add: a challenge to White silence in racial discussions
Why food belongs in our discussions of race
First Encounters with Racism (as told by youth)
I can't find any common ground with racists (Reggie Jackson)
Ibram X Kendi- why White America is still shocked by White Supremacy
'A harsh wake-up' here's how White people can broach difficult conversations about race
The 10 R's of talking about race: how to have meaningful conversations
Conversation Guide: Talking about Race, Racism, Care and Caregiving (from Caring Across Generations)
Tone policing (with infographic)
Running from race in our minds
What to do instead of saying 'I don't see race'
We need a new language for talking about race
Please stop referring to me as a person of color. I am Black.
Talking about racial inequality at work is difficult- here are tips to do it thoughtfully
Distinctions in White audience associations of 'Black' and 'African American' labels
We need to talk about racial justice issues at work. Here's how.
BIPOC or POC? Equity or Equality? The debate over language
AP: Why we will lowercase white
No, you really shouldn't capitilze the w in white
Seeing Black written with a capital b means more than you think it does
If first-graders are old enough to use racial slurs, they're not 'too young' to learn about racism
How teens are using online platforms to cal out racism in high school
Race and Physical/Mental Health & SEL
This is what racial trauma does to the body and brain
Your Black colleagues may look like they're okay, chances are they're not
SEL as another form of policing
How social media helps and hurts when it comes to Black exhaustion
Study ranks Milwaukee worst for African-American well-being
The future of healing: shifting from trauma informed care to healing centered engagement
This med student wrote the book on diagnosing disease on darker skin
CASEL- SEL as a lever for equity & excellence
CASEL- Advancing SEL as a level for equity and excellence- emerging insights
Why we can't afford whitewashed Social-Emotional Learning (SEL)
Three SEL skills you need to discuss race in classrooms
Why trauma informed approaches help advance racial equity
Social Emotional Learning or 'White Supremacy with a Hug'?
How people of color can experience grief differently than white people
Disproportionality and race equity in child welfare
Black children continue to be disproportionately represented in foster care
What is the link between racism and mental health?
Culturally Responsive Social-Emotional-Learning: hot to get there
Why are more Black kids suicidal? A search for answers.
New national poll: Americans split on whether schools should teach current-day racism
A study links facing discrimination at a young age with future mental health issues
Racial minorities are less likely to receive CPR when they need it
Cancer facts & figures for African American/ Black People 2022-2024
Heath disparities by race and ethnicity
What happens when kids learn that racism can't be overcome
Celeste Malone: culturally responsive mental health care
Targeted menthol cigarette ads helped led to high Black usage. Should they be banned?
Racism is related to memory loss and can worsen cognition
Are pulse oximeters ultimately harmful to Black medical patients?
The dangerous impace of racial trauma on the Black Community
How I'm breaking the stigma of mental health in the Black community
Overcoming racial battle fatigue: how Black people can minimize race-induced stress
When watching footage of police brutality begets trauma
MRIs show racism and poverty may alter brain development of Black children
The Affordable Care Act has significantly reduced racial disparities in health care access
High blood pressure plagues Black Americans. Combined with COVID, it's catastrophic
What is racial battle fatigue? A school psychologist explains
Why is it important for Black people to heal from racial trauma?
Black residents in rural Alabama demand sanitation equity, saying 'it's a right'
The racism Black kids endure is spiraling into a health crisis
As conservatives target schools, LGBTQ+ kids and students of color feel less safe
You so Black: the internalized hatred of my students
Kids of color get worse health care across the board in the U.S., research finds
Other
Kareem Abdul Jabbar: 'go out and make friends with somebody that doesn't look like you'
Teaching While White foundational texts
Hollywood: there's so much more to black lives than police brutality
Message received: all lives don't matter
How to respond to "riots never solve anything!"
The lies White people tell ourselves and how they haunt Milwaukee today
How to make this moment the turning point for real change (By Barack Obama)
How long will this go on? The driving force behind my righteous anger
Why tobacco is a racial justice issue
The sneaky language today's politicians use to get away with racism and sexism
Ahmaud Arbery Shooting: latest case of overuse of 'unarmed Black man'
The police departments with the biggest racial disparities in arrests and killings
Banning White Supremacy Isn't Censorship, It's Accountability
A message to America: Black people are not broken and we don't need fixing, you do (Reggie Jackson)
Zeddie Quitman Hyler: the first Black man to move to Wauwatosa
I'm an angry Black woman. This is what I want White people to know
How to beat stereotypes by seeing people as individuals
Inside a battle over race, class and power at Smith College
Claudette Colvin: the woman who refused to give up her bus seat- nine months before Rosa Parks
A pedagogy for Black people: why naming race matters
Opinion: antiracist math education adds up to better results for students
Racelighting (a form of gaslighting)
Is healing from racism possible?
How zero-sum thinking abour race hurts all Americans (a conversation with Heather McGhee)
Why we need more close interracial friendships (and why we're bad at them)
The journey from 'Colored' to 'Minorities' to 'People of Color'
4 little things you can do to be anti-racist as a family
Moving beyond diversity toward racial equity
What's the difference between race and ethnicity?
After COVID-19 school dismissals, let's stop pathologizing boys of color
The history of tensions- and solidarity- between Black and Asian American communities
Months after TikTok apologized to Black creators, many say little has changed
Am I racist? You may not like the answer
Report to the United Nations on racial disparities in the U.S. crimincal justice system
Belonging: a conversation about equity, diversity and inclusion
Phrases you didn't know were racist
Psychiatry confronts its racist past, and tries to make amends
Too soon gone: how the life and music of DMX tell a tragically familiar story for Black men
You cannot divorce race from immigration, Jose Antonio Vargas
Hollywood's anti-Black bias costs it $10 billion a year
Some Black parents say remote learning gives racism reprieve
Extensive data shows punishing reach of racism for Black boys
Tracing the African Diaspora in Food
How whitewashed is TikTok? Let Kahlil Green break it down for you
When students ask why they haven't seen cicadas, we need to talk about environmental racism
Since when have trees existed only for rich Americans?
How does a Black person know if a White person is racist?
The myth of colorblindess- Dr. Rosa Isiah
Down with toxic positivity! For teachers and students, healing isn't blind optimism
In Minneapolis schools, white families are asked to help do the integrating
Being Black in education: where is the system going wrong?
Why more Black families are homeschooling their children
What Covid taught us about racism- and what we need to do now
The "angry Black woman" stereotype at work
A private swim club was accused of racial segregation- then, it disappeared from the internet
LAUSD program helping Black students achieve personal, academic goals
5 ways to approach racial equity at work
It's going to take more than school board statements to make education more equitable
Racism thrives in the online dating world
3 ways Black workers say their white colleagues and managers can support them
Neighborhoods where Milwaukee isn't segregated
How Sterling Brown and the Milwaukee Bucks got the NBA to listen to its players
Living near racists can literally make you sick
The double whammy of immigration and race for Black migrants in the U.S. and abroad
Black owned bookstores safeguard our history as racists try to ban it
2020 census undercounted Latinos, Native Americans and Black Americans at high rates
For Black Americans, experiences of racial discrimination vary by eduation level, gender
The impact of voter suppression on communities of color
CROWN Act is the bill we need to end discrimination against Black natural hair
Anti-Asian racism never stopped being an outgrowth of U.S. Imperialism
Ketanji Brown Jackson's long pause explained racism and sexism in America
Black women are uniquely burdened by student debt, report finds
Affirmative Action benefits white women most
For-profit university allegedly targeting Black women in enrollment scheme
Seeing Black written with a capital B means more than you think it does
Asians feel least included in the workplace out of all racial groups, new report says
68 years after Brown, schools still highly segregated: 4 takeaways from study
The question we have to start asking after Walmart's Juneteenth mess
A Black restaurateur puts himself front and center in handling racist guests
Grocery stores are a hotbed of racism and hate crimes, data shows
Code-switching may be a survival strategy but 'culture coding' can be a superpower
A Jim Crow law was designed to disenfranchise Blacks. A court just upheld it.
Who counts as Black in voting maps? Some GOP state officials want that narrowed
I thought being nice would shield me from racism at work- I was wrong
Paying a Premium- race and life insurance
We're done with performative 'inclusion.' Here's how employers can actually create change.
Equity builder or racial barrier: debate rages over role of 8th grade algebra
New study finds Black women's hair 2.5 times more likely to be seen as unprofessional
Angel Reese and why we don't go high anymore
I moved to the US from Kenya. I never fully realized I was Black until I had a son
Does the NBA have a colorism issue? Twitter starts a conversation about current draft class
Should Black America still celebrate July 4th or Juneteenth only?
The phenomenon of hair-salon "deserts" and how it impacts Black women
James Bond novels to be reissued with racial references removed
The diversity of the top 50 Fortune 500 CEOs over time
Study finds anti-Black bias among white Americans is rooted in perceived threat, not dislike
Here's an idea: let's celebrate Black hairstyles on Black people too
Racial disparities in voter turnout have grown since Supreme Court ruling
US changes how it categorizes people by race and ethnicity. It's the first revision in 27 years
Scraping away generations of forgetting: my fight to honour the Africans buried on St. Helena
St. Helena urged to return remains of 325 formerly enslaved people to Africa
Chess masters: these young Black men ain't no rook-ies
The worst states for Black Americans: every state ranked
Racism plays a part in Algonquin pool's closure. It should been a priority for summer.
Critical Race Theory/ Teaching about Race/DEI
Why are states banning critical race theory?
Critical race theory hysteria overshadows the importance of teaching kids about racism
Critical Race Theory and the new 'Massive Resistance'
Opponents of critical race theory don't even know what it is
Schools face fears of 'Critical Race Theory' as they scale up Social Emotional Learning
Critical race theory panic is largely about white parents holding on to mythologies
What the critical race theory panic was really about
Unfounded outrage over Critical Race Theory risks social emotional learning
Chicago Defender: here's what you need to know about Critical Race Theory
Here's what you need to know about Critical Race Theory
Why are states banning critical race theory?
13 questions for those who want to ban 'Critical Race Theory'
The White students didn't feel guilty.
Georgia Senate passes bill limiting discussion of race in schools
Opponents of Mississippi's anti-Critical Race Theory law fear whitewashing of history
White anxiety redefined: the psychic wages of disfiguring the meaning of Critical Race Theory
How a diverse coalition in a red state shut down anti-CRT legislation
Why do young whites kill out of hate? Schools aren't teaching nation's racist past.
The real danger of the right-wing attacks on antiracist education
The Critical Race Theory explainer every white person should read
Why critical race theory should inform schools
Why is Critical Race Theory so threatening to white people?
Why the narrative that critical race theory 'makes white kids feel guilty' is a lie
Children must learn the truth about racism and help our country move forward
How to respond to community concerns about critical race theory
Temecula students protest district ban on Critical Reace Theory
Report: 1.3M teachers, 100,000 professors now under 'educational gag orders'
What changed after a California school district banned teaching critical race theory?
America is under under attack: inside the anti-DEI crusade
What is DEI and why is it dividing America?
For Black college athletes, this is the bus boycott of our era
High school teacher and students sue over Arkansas' ban on critical race theory
Colleges exploit Black athletes for March Madness. It's time to boycott anti-DEI universities