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Robin DiAngelo reminds us that "Many people of color are committed to teaching whites about racism... and have been offering this information for decades, if not centuries. It is our own lack of interest or motivation that has prevented us from receiving it."
Seek out black voices -- in books, articles, film, television, websites, videos, social media, and daily observation.
Seek out black voices -- in books, articles, film, television, websites, videos, social media, and daily observation.
Black voices provide additional context for the June 24th meeting on the erasure and distortion of historical truths.
In a conversation for Juneteenth, contributors to The Atlantic‘s “Inheritance” project about American history, Black life, and the resilience of memory—including playwright and Atlantic contributing writer Anna Deavere Smith, senior editor Vann R. Newkirk II, staff writer and author of the new book How the Word Is Passed Clint Smith, and managing editor and “Inheritance” lead Gillian B. White—shared reflections on their writing to surface Black history that has been intentionally obscured, and shake our national memory.
Click on the picture of Clint Smith (left) to view the webinar. A password is required. Password: BLNMATLANTIC16
Additional context for the September 1 meeting: A Conversation About Being White
Venita Blackburn received the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction, which resulted in the publication of her collected stories, Black Jesus and Other Superheroes, in 2017. In 2018 she was a finalist for the PEN/Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction and the NYPL Young Lions Fiction Award, and she received the PEN America Los Angeles Literary Award in fiction. She is an assistant professor of creative writing at California State University, Fresno.
By Venita Blackburn, from The Paris Review, March 25, 2019
Additional context for our July 21 Conversation: Caroline Randall Williams describes a different kind of monument.
Opinion _ You Want a Confederate Monume...federate Monument - The New York Times.pdfAdditional context for the July 7 Conversation on Implicit Bias,
an issue central to the work of two Black authors: Damon Tweedy, M.D. and Jennifer Eberhardt, PhD
Damon Tweedy, M.D.
Black Man in a White Coat: A Doctor's Reflections on Race and Medicine (2016)
DAMON TWEEDY is a graduate of Duke University School of Medicine. He is an associate professor of psychiatry at Duke University School of Medicine and staff physician at the Durham Veteran Affairs Health System. He has published articles about race and medicine in the New York Times, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, and Raleigh News & Observer, as well as in various medical journals. He lives outside Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina, with his family.
Watch his interview on the PBS News Hour (6:28) and check out a New York Times review (September 13, 2015) of Black Man in a White Coat (click here). The informative review is definitely worth a read.
Dr. Tweedy's OpEd, "Medical Schools Have Historically Been Wrong on Race " appeared in the New York Times on July 27. You can link directly to it here or read the PDF below:
Opinion _ Medical Schools Have Historic...een Wrong on Race - The New York Times.pdf
Jennifer L. Eberhardt, PhD
Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do (2019)
Professor of psychology at Stanford University and recipient of a 2014 MacArthur "genius" grant, Eberhardt did undergraduate work at the University of Cincinnati, and received a PhD in cognitive psychology from Harvard. In the new book, Eberhardt writes about her decades of experience studying race and our everyday interactions — and suggests that in order to overcome our own racial biases, we must acknowledge them.
Much of Eberhardt's work has focused on bias in law enforcement but her insights are just as applicable in education, employment, housing, and, certainly, in healthcare.
Click on the photo (left) to view her June 2020 TED Talk (14:09). Click here to access a New York Times review of Biased.
Additional Background for the June 23 Conversation - Racial Inequalities in Healthcare
Recent Virtual Event Highlighting Healthcare Disparities
On May 14, 2020, Random House's One World Ideas X Action and the organization, Color of Change, sponsored a conversation with Ibram X. Kendi and Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha on inequalities in healthcare and why "antiracism and fighting for the most vulnerable is more urgent than ever in a time of confusion and fear." (1:04:30)
Ibram Kendi is the author of the best selling How to be an Antiracist and the National Book Award-winning Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racism in America. Dr. Hanna-Attisha is a pediatrician whose research and advocacy helped bring the Flint water crisis to light, and the author of What the Eyes Don't See: A Story of Crisis, Resistance, and Hope in an American City.
At around the 9-minute mark, Kendi discusses misconceptions about racial disparities and mentions his work at American University and the recently launched COVID Racial Data Tracker. (Update: Ibram Kendi will be joining Boston University this summer as a Professor in the Department of History and will establish a "BU Center for Antiracist Research".)
The American Medical Association has a long history of being a white, reactionary organization protecting and advocating for its membership. It fought universal health care in the Truman, Johnson, Nixon, and Clinton administrations. It was cool to Obama’s Affordable Care Act. Perhaps this video from Aletha Maybank, Chief Health Equity Officer at the AMA's Center for Health Equity, is a new page, long overdue, but refreshing and inspiring. (1:02:52)
Kimberly Jones, co-author of the YA novel I'm Not Dying With You Tonight: How Can We Win. (6:46)
On May 31st, filmmaker and photographer, Dave Jones, felt compelled to go out and serve the community in some way. He asked his friend Kimberly Jones to tag along and conduct interviews. During a moment of downtime he captured these powerful words from her.
Charles Blow recently appeared on CBS Sunday Morning. The New York Times columnist discussed how trust and faith in the criminal justice system can die when blacks and whites have different experiences with police officers. (2:26)
Tim Duncan was, until recently, Deputy Athletic Director at Northeastern University and a resident of Newton, MA. He has started a new job as Athletic Director at the University of New Orleans. His family is remaining in Newton until the end of the school year and then will be moving to New Orleans. In this video, Duncan describes an experience he had in Newton just a few days before the murder of George Floyd. (3:32)
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