A new and insightful @VICE piece by @natelege_ about the work of equity/diversity/inclusion/belonging consultants featuring our own co-founder Janelle Williams Melendrez.
https://t.co/a10q9JjWWo
Reminder: creating equity is *not* taking anything away from others, but it does require that we all work together (and sacrifice some) to create space at the table for everyone.
BREAKING: Hank Aaron, the baseball legend who endured racist threats with stoic dignity as he broke Babe Ruth's career home run record, has died at 86. https://t.co/Re0rtZ0a79
59 years ago today I was released from Parchman Farm Penitentiary after being arrested in Jackson, MS for using a so-called "white" restroom during the Freedom Rides of 1961.
“Nearly 1 in 3 black Americans know someone personally who has died of covid-19, far exceeding their white counterparts, according to a Washington Post-Ipsos poll that underscores the coronavirus pandemic’s profoundly disparate impact.”
https://t.co/bW7VexR5Xs
"If schools acknowledge the systemic bias in our country, they have a unique opportunity to use social emotional learning as a tool for social justice and racial equity." @EdSurge https://t.co/GMYWTRSnBd
PSA: Do not use ‘Black’ as a noun to describe a person or group of people (ex. ‘a Black’ or ‘Blacks’ is a no-no and further it is dehumanizing). Use ‘Black’ as an adjective only (ex. Black woman, Black people.’
And don’t forget upper-case ‘B’.
On this Juneteenth we celebrate the resilience of black people while we also remember that although slavery was abolished, the toxic dehumanizing ideas that fueled it still remain. So today, we remember the work that has been done, and the work that still remains.
It is so important that we acknowledge we all hold unintentional biases around race in the United States. When we don't acknowledge this reality, we cannot begin to change how those biases shape our behaviors, our institutions, and our lives.
WATCH: Sen. John Cornyn: "Do you believe that, basically, all Americans are racist?"
Former DOJ official Vanita Gupta: "I think we all have implicit bias and racial bias..."
Cornyn: "Wow."
Gupta: "And I think that we are an amazing country that strives to be better" every day.
**NEW** #COVID19 mortality data by race.
Black Americans are still the most disproportionately impacted by #COVID19.
🛑1 in 1625 Black Americans have died.
🛑If Black Americans had died at the same rate as white Americans, 14,000 Black Americans would be alive today.
My god.