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Do |
Anti-racist action |
Advocate for Affordable Housing in Evanston |
2 |
Do |
Anti-racist action |
Advocate to your Employer to Take a Stand Against Racism |
3 |
Do |
Anti-racist action |
Attend an Evanston Equity and Empowerment Committee Meeting or Reparations Subcommittee Meeting |
4 |
Do |
Anti-racist action |
Find and share multicultural books
for the young people in your life |
5 |
Do |
Anti-racist action |
Ensure your workplace recruits, hires and promotes qualified Black people — and pays them generously |
6 |
Do |
Anti-racist action |
Explore Organizations doing Racial Justice Work and make a Contribution |
7 |
Do |
Anti-racist action |
Find an event celebrating Black History Month in Evanston or across the country and join in |
8 |
Do |
Anti-racist action |
Join Joining Forces for Affordable Housing and Advocate for Affordable Housing in Evanston |
9 |
Do |
Anti-racist action |
Know what indigenous land you’re living on by looking that this map and research the groups that occupied that land before you did. Find out what local activism those groups are doing and give your money and time to those efforts. |
10 |
Do |
Anti-racist action |
Learn about organizations using prison labor, and decide how you will respond |
11 |
Do |
Anti-racist action |
Learn positions of candidates running for local elected office in relation to racial equity or policing, and vote for those who take a strong position for racial equity |
12 |
Do |
Anti-racist action |
Make a donation to Evanston’s Reparations fund |
13 |
Do |
Anti-racist action |
Make your voice heard by calling and writing to your elected officials, from Evanston to D.C. |
14 |
Do |
Anti-racist action |
Participate in Let’s Talk at Lunch with the YWCA |
15 |
Do |
Anti-racist action |
Shop at a Black Owned Business in Evanston or Online |
16 |
Do |
Anti-racist action |
Hear from black-led organizations calling for concrete, tangible changes to systems of policing, including NAACP and Movement For Black Lives |
17 |
Read |
Anti-racist action |
Black Lives Matter May Be the Largest Movement in U.S. History |
18 |
Do |
Anti-racist action: Evanston |
Learn about policing in Evanston and advocate for reforms needed |
19 |
Explore |
Anti-racist action: Evanston |
Evanston Reparations webpage |
20 |
Read |
Anti-racist action: Evanston |
Evanston approves housing grants as part of city’s local reparations program, believed to be first of its kind in the nation |
21 |
Explore |
Anti-racist action: Evanston |
Organization for Positve Action and Leadership |
New |
Watch |
Anti-racist action: Evanston |
A dissenting perspective
offered during the City Council reparations vote, at 2:44:38 |
New |
Watch |
Anti-racist action: Evanston |
As Evanston,
Illinois approves reparations for Black residents, will
the country follow? |
22 |
Do |
Faith and Race |
Worship at an Evanston African American church and give an offering there: Second Baptist Evanston; Ebenezer African American Church; Mount Zion Missionary |
23 |
Listen |
Faith and Race |
White Supremacist Ideas Have Historical Roots In U.S. Christianity |
24 |
Read |
Faith and Race |
Jesus Was Divisive: A Black Pastor’s Message To White Christians |
25 |
Read |
Faith and Race |
Sarasota Statement with 2020 Prologue |
26 |
Read |
Faith and Race |
Their churches were complicit in raising the Lee Monument. Now they want it taken down. |
27 |
Watch |
Faith and Race |
Stated Clerk remembers recent victims of racial violence |
28 |
Explore |
History |
Equal Justice Initiative Legacy Museum and Memorial website |
29 |
Listen |
History |
Songs of the Civil Rights Movement |
30 |
Watch |
History |
Ex Slaves talk about Slavery in the USA |
31 |
Read |
History: Evanston |
Commentary: Northwestern’s connection to the Sand Creek Massacre and a call for a National Week of Mourning |
32 |
Read |
History: Evanston |
John Evans and The Sand Creek Massacre |
33 |
Explore |
History:Evanston |
Shorefront Legacy Collective website |
34 |
Explore |
History:Evanston |
Truth-telling: Frances Willard and Ida B. Wells |
35 |
Watch |
Systemic Racism |
Racism is Real |
36 |
Read |
Systemic Racism–Health |
The Fullest Look Yet at the Racial Inequity of Coronavirus |
37 |
Read |
Systemic Racism–Health |
The Wealthy Are Getting More Vaccinations, Even in Poorer Neighborhoods |
38 |
Watch |
Systemic Racism–Mass incarceration |
Pusha T & Ava DuVernay Discuss the Importance of ’13th’ Documentary |
39 |
Listen |
Systemic Racism-Economic disparity |
Racism And Economics |
40 |
Listen |
Systemic Racism-Police brutality |
A Decade of Watching Black People Die |
41 |
Watch |
Systemic Racism-Redlining |
The Disturbing History of the Suburbs |
42 |
Explore |
Systemic Racism: Evanston |
The Lasting Impact of Evanston Redlining |
43 |
Read |
Terminology |
Terms of White Privilege and Power |
44 |
Read |
Terminology-Ally |
For our white friends desiring to be allies |
45 |
Read |
Terminology-Ally |
On Making Black Lives Matter |
46 |
Watch |
Terminology-Ally |
5 Tips for Being an Ally |
47 |
Watch |
Terminology-Anti-racist vs racist |
The difference between being not racist and being antiracist |
48 |
Read |
Terminology-Colorblindness |
Being “Color Blind” Doesn’t Make You Not Racist—In Fact, It Can Mean the Opposite |
49 |
Do |
Terminology-Implicit bias |
Harvard Implicit bias test |
50 |
Watch |
Terminology-Implicit Bias |
Before You Call |
51 |
Watch |
Terminology-Implicit bias |
How to desconstruct racism, one headline at a time |
52 |
Watch |
Terminology-Implict Bias |
Verna Myers: How to overcome our biases? Walk boldly toward them |
53 |
Watch |
Terminology-Intent vs Impact |
Impact vs Intent |
54 |
Read |
Terminology-Microaggressions |
21 Racial Microaggressions You Hear On A Daily Basis |
55 |
Read |
Terminology-Microaggressions |
Examples of Racial Microagressions |
56 |
Watch |
Terminology-Microaggressions |
If Microaggressions Happened to White People |
57 |
Read |
Terminology-Racism |
Ten myths white people believe about racism |
58 |
Read |
Terminology-Reparations |
Six questions about slavery reparations, answered |
59 |
Read |
Terminology-White Culture |
White Culture Handout |
60 |
Read |
Terminology-White Privilege |
Racial Injustice has Benefited Me – A Confession |
61 |
Read |
Terminology-White privilege |
White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack |
62 |
Read |
Terminology-White Supremacy |
The Deep History—and Troubling Impact—of Sports Teams Using Native American Mascots |
New |
Read |
Terminology-White Supremacy |
Anti-Asian hate crimes and harassment rise to historic
levels during COVID-19 pandemic |
63 |
Watch |
Terminology-White Supremacy |
What Kind of Asian Are You? |
64 |
Read |
Terminology-White-centeredness |
The Sugarcoated Language Of White Fragility |
65 |
Explore |
Terminology-Whiteness |
Whiteness |
66 |
Listen |
Voices |
Kids Who Die |
67 |
Listen |
Voices |
Martin Luther King Beloved Community |
68 |
Read |
Voices |
Unpacking stories |
69 |
Read |
Voices |
Who Gets to Be Afraid in America |
70 |
Watch |
Voices |
A Conversation With Latinos on Race |
71 |
Watch |
Voices |
The Beloved Community-Eran Thompson |
72 |
Watch |
Voices |
The Danger of Silence |
73 |
Watch |
Voices |
This is Us |