Racial Equity

Articles

• America’s Racial Contract Is Killing Us
  • Atlantic article looking at COVID and health disparities in the US
• A call to action for white people: Reflect and act
  • Masslive article outlining health inequities that are caused by structural racism, some steps which can be taken to mitigate them
• Beyond the Hashtag: How to Take Anti-Racist Action in Your Life
  • Teen Vogue article looking at how to integrate anti-racism into your daily life
• How you can be an ally in the fight for racial justice
  • TED article outlining ways you can be an ally in the fight for racial justice
• Talking about Disparities: The Effect of Frame Choices on Support for Race-Based Policies
  • A FrameWorks Institute Message Brief exploring how can we talk about disparities in ways that prompt people to rethink assumptions, acknowledge the root causes of racial disparities, and support equity-focused policies
• Springfield Health Equity Report: Looking at Health through Race and Ethnicity (2019)
  • Report that examines social and economic factors that impact health among communities of color in Springfield and the resulting health inequities.
• Teaching Tolerance: Let's Talk: Discussing Race, Racism and Other Difficult Topics with Students
  • Guide for educators on how to facilitate conversations about race
• The Conversation: Tips on having a Conversation about Race
  • Guide on how to have difficult conversations about race​​​
• The Intersectionality Wars
  • Vox article looking at intersectionality as a framework and its consequences
• Mental Health Inequities Among Springfield Eighth Grade Students: Findings from the 2019 Youth Health Survey
  • Report that examines mental health risk factors and outcomes experienced by Springfield teens as a whole and by race/ethnicity, gender, and sexual orientation.

• Black Feminism & the Movement for Black Lives
  • 50 min video of a panel discussion on Black Feminism and the Movement for Black Lives
• Improving Health Equity, Beating the Odds
  • ​​​​​​​ Dr. Anthony Iton speaks at the Springfield Public Forum on how race, class, wealth, education, geography, and employment impact public health?
• Lets stop talking about diversity and start working towards equity
  • 15 minute TEDx by Paloma Medina which challenges our paradigm of diversity and the concept of diversity vs. equity

• Momentum: A Race Forward
  • Podcast looking at racism, research, and social justice, featuring movement voices, stories, and strategies for racial justice
• Pod For The Cause
  • Podcast from The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights​'s which discusses civil & human rights to spark positive change

• Don’t Look Away: Embracing Anti-Bias Classrooms
  • Book by a team of authors for childhood educators to combat racism in their classrooms
• How To Be An Antiracist by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi
  • Book by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi dedicated to describing how to be an anti-racist
• Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, & You by Jason Reynolds
  • Book by Jason Reynolds which delves into the current state of race and racism and what can be done about it

• 21-Day Racial Equity Challenge
  • 21 day guided challenge on practices that we should implement into our daily lives 
• 106 things that white people can do for racial justice
  • List of 106 things white people can do to help bring about greater racial justice
• American Public Health Association
  • Webpage with resources on Racism and Health
• Accomplice Resources
  • Website with the actor, ally, accomplice framework, and action steps
• BLAC
  • Organization focusing on uplifting Black educators and administrators
• Health Equity Guide, A Human Impact Partners Project

  • HealthEquityGuide.org is a resource with inspiring examples of how health departments have concretely advanced health equity — both internally within their departments and externally with communities and other government agencies.

• Racial Equity Institute
  • Organization that does trainings as well as maintain a resource bank
• Racial Equity Tools
  • Website dedicated to compiling tools and resources related to anti-racism
• ReThinking Racism For Racial & Social Justice
  • Workshop examining the imposition of individual, institutional, and cultural ideology that leads to systemic racism and provides a basis for taking action
• Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF)
  • The RWJF webpage which focuses racism's impact on health; resources, articles, and grant funding opportunities
• Showing Up for Racial Justice
  • Organization dedicated to working towards a world where every community has what they need to thrive and assists with organizing people to show up for racial justice
• Springfield Youth Health Survey Interactive Data Portal
  • Interactive data portal that allows user to explore and visualize findings from the Springfield Youth Health Survey by race and sex.
• Undoing Racism Organizing Collective
  • Organization that does trainings as well as maintains a resource bank
• White Supremacy Culture
  • Website dedicated to understanding, dismantling, and divorcing white supremacy culture by sharing information, resources, articles, and stories