Resources
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Resources
Michael recommends these reads:
There are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in the Other America by Alex Kotlowitz
The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
A Terrible Thing to Waste by Harriet A Washington
The 1619 Project by Nikole Hannah-Jones
Where We Find Ourselves: The Photographs of Hugh Mangum, 1897-1922 ed. Margaret Sartor
Music as Social Life: The Politics of Participation by Thomas Turino
How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
College football teams with Black coaches are penalized more often than teams with coaches who are white, a new study of the highest division teams has found. They are given five to seven extra penalties per season compared to ones with white coaches.
The finding raises new concerns about racism in sports refereeing.
The Social Science Quarterly study released on Sunday held true even adjusting for the quality of the players, coaches, and schools studied. It comes amid rising concern about the dearth of Black coaches at both the professional and college level in football, a sport where 7 out of 10 players in its highest ranks, the NFL, are Black.
In our cultural imagination, these people are brutal. They’re irredeemable. They see violence as a way out of whatever conundrum they’re facing. Or, maybe, as Lamar seems to poke at, it isn’t that simple. We exist in a time that asks us as humans to prescribe to a culture of moral absolutism. Some of that has spawned from the emergence of a radical fascist movement masquerading as conservatism that has declared war on reproductive rights, trans rights and voting rights among others — which side are you on? — but some of it doesn’t serve us well.
If we can’t make space for the possibility that there’s more complexity than what’s on the surface, then what’s the use? As always, Lamar is showcasing his genius by asking those questions to us, holding up a mirror to our behavior, and asking us to dig deep into our brains and our hearts for answers, even when they’re impossible.
https://blavity.com/prison-system-incarcerated-black-americans-communication?category1=opinion
Companies are reported to have contracts with more than 2,500 “correctional” facilities throughout the U.S. The prison telephone industry is itself a billion-dollar industry, as are prison money transfer, electronic messaging & video visitation industries.
These authors aren't trying to rewrite history, but to refocus it, to fill in those spaces with the names, images and sounds of the women who have been left out for far too long.