The project consists of:

1) A searchable database of antiracist materials that are uniquely tied to BYU either because they were produced here, produced by the church or its members and employees more broadly, or because it was recommended by members of our immediate community. This database will be housed by the HBLL, with whom we already have a partnership. The database will go through a few iterations (its final form will take too much time and we need to get these materials out quickly) but most iterations should be searchable and filterable by several codes that can help members of the BYU community find the specific types of resources they are looking for. This will be a living database, with additional resources added in close to real-time.

2) Research digests that share the best of what we have learned from the resources provided. These are organized by topic and shared with the intent of quickly providing actionable thoughts and practices with our community, in addition to links to the most applicable and useful resources from the database. These, too, will be living documents and we will do our best to create new ones as demand for specific information arises.

As of October 6, 2020, four of the ten digests have been released:

Digest 1 | ‘All are Alike Unto God’: Creating a Zion campus by addressing racism, promoting equity, and enhancing belonging Released Aug 26, 2020.

Digest 2 | ‘Lend an ear unto my counsel’: Addressing challenging topics from a perspective of faith

Digest 3 | ‘Lord, Is it I?’ Examining ourselves on issues of race Released Oct 6, 2020.

Digest 4 | 'Let Us Take Counsel Together' | Supporting and listening to those with lived experience Released Oct 6, 2020.

Digest 5 | ‘Do good continually’: Improving our words and actions

Digest 6 | ‘Their hearts knit together in unity’: Having conversations about race

Digest 7 | ‘Speak one with another’: Hosting Class discussions on race

Digest 8 | ‘Bless them that curse you’: What to do if someone makes a racist comment

Digest 9 | “Teach us of his ways”: Creating an anti-racist syllabus Released Aug 26, 2020.

Digest 10 | ‘Obtain a knowledge of history’: Race and the history of the church

The Goals of the Project are:

1) Promote and support antiracist actions at BYU to create a more inclusive, loving, safe, Christlike, Zion campus . This is our primary goal. All other goals and actions are second to this.

2) Gather and widely share ideas for antiracist actions that are unique to BYU. By engaging in a decentralized, grassroots effort, we hope to get contributions and buy-in for antiracist efforts from as many people on campus as possible. By example, we want to demonstrate that every person on campus has an opportunity to improve on this front. We can share our best work and efforts, see the work and efforts of others, and strive to improve by adopting ever-better examples and ideas. The grassroots element of our effort is intended to break down barriers that might otherwise prevent us from doing and giving our best in this area. We can learn quickly from the ideas and examples of others, and turn around and contribute our own work as well.

3) Reduce burden on campus experts. Many of the people on campus who have already been actively fighting racism actively have been inundated with requests for materials and information. We want to get this material shared as widely and as quickly as possible while providing a trusted resource that can reduce the flow of traffic to specific faculty members whose inboxes have become inundated with requests. If we can share their materials widely, we can reduce the burden on them and free them to continue moving their work forward rather than having to respond to an unending stream of emails.