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.
Videos
- 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
- Systemic Racism Explained
- 5 minute video explaining how racism is a structural phenomena from Act.tv
Podcasts
- 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
Books
- 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
Websites
- 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
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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.
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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.
- The Structural Racism Remedies Repository
- This is a repository of policy-based recommendations for addressing structural and systemic racism or advancing racial equity drawn from a vast array of published material, from the University of California, Berkeley, Othering and Belonging Institute.
- 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
Putting Resources into Practice: A Race and Health Equity Blog
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