"To be antiracist is to think nothing is behaviorally wrong or right -- inferior or superior -- with any of the racial groups. Whenever the antiracist sees individuals behaving positively or negatively, the antiracist sees exactly that: individuals behaving positively or negatively, not representatives of whole races. To be antiracist is to deracialize behavior, to remove the tattooed stereotype from every racialized body. Behavior is something humans do, not races do." - Ibram X. Kendi
Online Resources
- Colorlines
Colorlines is a daily news site where race matters, featuring award-winning in-depth reporting, news analysis, opinion and curation.
Colorlines is published by Race Forward, a national organization that advances racial justice through research, media and practice. - 158 Resources to Understand Racism in America
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These articles, videos, podcasts and websites from the Smithsonian chronicle the history of anti-black violence and inequality in the United State - POC Zine Project
Mission: To make all zines by people of color easy to find, distribute and share. POCZP is an experiment in activism and community through materiality - #BlackLivesMatter
#BlackLivesMatter was founded in 2013 in response to the acquittal of Trayvon Martin’s murderer. Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation, Inc. is a global organization in the US, UK, and Canada, whose mission is to eradicate white supremacy and build local power to intervene in violence inflicted on Black communities by the state and vigilantes. By combating and countering acts of violence, creating space for Black imagination and innovation, and centering Black joy, we are winning immediate improvements in our lives.
Recommended Reading
- 'Not Racist' Is Not Enough: Putting In The Work To Be Anti-RacistArticle and podcast from NPR
- An Anti-Racist Reading List by Ibram X. KendiIbram X. Kendi on books to help America transcend its racist heritage.
- Lesley Black Student VoicesTo highlight the voices of our Black students and provide links to additional resources that are behind a paywall and can only be viewed by logging in with Lesley credentials.
- Maintaining Professionalism In The Age of Black Death Is….A Lot"I just witnessed the lynching of a black man, but don’t worry Ted, I’ll have those deliverables to you end of day."
- Teaching For Black Lives: a handbook to fight America’s Ferocious racism in (virtual or face-to-face) ClassroomsThe introduction to “Teaching for Black Lives” and two chapters from the book.
- Your Black Colleagues May Look Like They’re Okay — Chances Are They’re Not"But here’s a newsflash for all the white people unaware of this fact: your Black colleagues may seem okay right now, but chances are they’re not."
- 15 Classroom Resources For Discussing Racism, Policing, and ProtestFor teachers looking for more classroom resources—for themselves and their students—Education Week has compiled the following lists and resources.
Lesley University Counseling Center :
The Lesley University Counseling Center provides individual short-term counseling and services for on-campus undergraduate and graduate students in degree-granting programs. Our counselors are sensitive to issues of ethnicity, spirituality, culture, sexual orientation, gender, disability, learning differences, and body image. We offer traditional verbal therapy and non-traditional methods, such as expressive arts therapies.
Counseling sessions are held in confidence and are not part of your academic record. If you need or want long-term counseling, we can refer you to outside specialists. Students are responsible for the cost of outside services How to make an appointment: We are offering remote counseling services. To make an appointment: Email counselingcenter@lesley.edu to let us know you want to meet with a counselor. You can also use this email for other questions you may have. Call 617-349-8545 and leave a voicemail and we'll get back to you.
Call to Safety approaches domestic and sexual violence intervention and prevention work through a social justice and anti-oppressive lens. We communicate this value through community outreach, continuous training and education for our staff, and by applying anti-oppression theory into our Basic Advocacy Training for incoming volunteers. In the interest of joining the movement for racial justice, Call to Safety recently took on the effort to become an anti-racist organization. We recognize that as we live in a culture that is supported by white supremacy, our work towards racial justice will be on-going and in a constant state of becoming. We welcome feedback from the community at large about how we might better work towards this goal.