Explore the powerful and ongoing movement for racial justice and equality through this comprehensive guide on Black Lives Matter, delving into its origins, impact, and continued struggle for change.
Written and curated by Rachel E. Cargle
"I am writing this to you as an act of self care. As an act of self preservation. Please take note that this is not a service to you nor is it a gift. It is, most simply, a heavy load I must set it down, right here, right now in order to make room for something more."
Lydia Denworth Scientific American
June 4, 2020
Columbia University attorney Alexis J. Hoag discusses the history of how we got to this point and the ways that researchers can help reduce bias against black Americans throughout the legal system.
Joel Anderson
Slate
May 31, 2020
"Police chiefs may have condemned the killing of George Floyd, but the actions of their officers since show that nothing’s shifted."
Emma Pettit The Chronicle of Higher Education
July 9, 2020
"Abolition as a concept isn’t shiny and new. It has a long history — one that’s interwoven with African Americans’ continual struggle for freedom."
National Museum of African American History and Culture
"To create an equal society, we must commit to making unbiased choices and being antiracist in all aspects of our lives."
Rachel Elizabeth Cargle Harper's Bazaar
November 21, 2019
"As America sits down to give thanks for a country founded on the pain of many, we can't dismiss the irony of what is being celebrated."
Peggy McIntosh
This essay is excerpted from Working Paper 189. "White Privilege and Male Privilege: A Personal Account of Coming To See Correspondences through Work in Women's Studies" (1988), by Peggy McIntosh.
"I was taught to see racism only in individual acts of meanness, not in invisible systems conferring dominance on my group"
Betsy Hodges The New York Times
July 9, 2020
"White liberals, despite believing we are saying and doing the right things, have resisted the systemic changes our cities have needed for decades."
Syllabus by Scott Bowman, Texas State University, San Marcos Counterpoints
Vol. 391, Integrating Multiculturalism into the Curriculum: From the Liberal Arts to the Sciences (2013), pp. 287-295
Rafael Walker The Chronicle of Higher Education
June 23, 2020
"Empathetic gestures and rote affirmations of principle erase the people they’re meant to help."
