"Pass the Mic!" "Learn to speak up!"
"You can’t know what you don’t know." "Don’t expect people of color to educate you."
The challenges of seeking to grow antiracist-commitment and end our complicity with white supremacy has many wrong steps (and few right ones). Getting real about this—and developing ways to understand it—is a critical work in growing a culture of robust sustained (and multi-racial) antiracist cultures. Let’s talk about it!
is a professor of religion at Drake University where she also serves as Faculty Director for the Crew Scholars Program. She has a Ph.D. in Christian Ethics from Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York. Her work focuses primarily on racial justice and white anti-racism. Her books include the New York Times Bestseller Raising White Kids: Bringing Up Children in Racially Unjust America and Dear White Christians: For Those Still Longing for Racial Reconciliation. Dr. Harvey has written for the New York Times, CNN and countless other publications and is a widely sought public speaker. She has appeared on nationally syndicated televisions programs, including Good Morning America to CNN’s Town Hall with Sesame Street and is a frequent guest on radio, including having been interviewed on National Public Radio’s “All Things Considered” with Michel Martin and “It’s Been a Minute” with Sam Sanders. Dr. Harvey is also ordained in the American Baptist Churches (USA).