The latest set of resources collected together for varieties of learning settings, focused on #blacklivesmatter

USDAC has a very useful panel recording available on “creative strategies for commemorative justice” utilizing participatory action.

Here’s a new report out, from the Date&Society folk, on what “racial literacy” could mean within the work of digital tech.

They write:

Racial literacy is a new method for addressing the racially disparate impacts of technology. It is a skill that can be developed, a capacity that can be expanded. To advance racial literacy in tech requires three foundations:
· An intellectual understanding of how structural racism oper- ates in algorithms, social media platforms, and technologies not yet developed;
· An emotional intelligence concerning how to resolve racially stressful situations within organizations; and
· A commitment to take action to reduce harms to communities of color.

A lovely piece at Duke’s Faith and Leadership blog about indigenous storytelling as a primary epistemological conviction.

Here’s a lovely short TED talk by two young women that helps to connect personal stories to larger systemic issues around racism.

Here’s a useful piece exploring how to engage white people in dialogue about racism, if you yourself are a white person who’s gotten frustrated by lack of authentic engagement.

Try to remember that the goal is dialogue and transformation, not debate.

Here is a rich set of videos, podcasts, and other resources archived from the Culture/Shift 2018 conference.

There is an upwelling of scholarship recently offering new insights into the depth and pervasive nature of slavery. Here’s a brief visualization that makes clear the enormous number of ships that carried people from the African continent to the Americas.

More and more of us are finding ways to acknowledge the land upon which we meet, when we are beginning events. Here’s a lengthy explanation of why, with a handbook for doing so. And here’s a good set of reminders not to turn it into a “checkbox.” Here’s one other good resource on the practice, and an editorial critiquing some of the ways in which it has been done. I also found this interview useful.

The American Academy of Religion has a regular newsletter which reflects on issues of teaching. This month’s issue was focused on “teaching religion as anti-racism education.”