Anti-racism Resources: Be the change! <3

Join the Austin Bar Association on a 21-day quest to explore and deepen our awareness and engagement in issues of racial equality. Provide your name and email address to receive a daily email. Each email will contain a link to a daily assignment of articles, podcasts, or videos aimed at improving our understanding of inequity issues from microaggressions to system racism. The challenge begins July 1 and concludes on July 29.

The purpose of the Antiracism Starter Kit is to help you navigate your next steps after answering the call to become antiracist. It is meant to be used as a blueprint as you find your own rhythm in this work that is sustainable and practical for how you learn as an individual.

There is an urgent need to confront issues of race, inequality, and social justice, and to build a deeper awareness that promotes empathy and understanding. Critical issues must be faced, steps must be taken, and changes must be made in order to effectively address the underlying, systemic issues which give rise to social injustice. All courses are free to audit.

In clear, immediate prose, woven with compelling personal experiences and gripping stories from the recent and distant past, the National Book Award-winning historian Ibram X. Kendi helps us map our experience of race and consciously choose to tear down systemic racism in America in How to Be an Antiracist. His goal is our goal: "to be fully human and to see that others are fully human." Over four weeks, the Jung Center will read Kendi's book and discuss it together in an online conversation structured to allow us to voice our experience and listen to the experiences of others with compassion and curiosity.

Central clearinghouse of ABA-related information and resources for attorneys, the legal profession and the public on a wealth of issues addressing bias, racism and prejudice in the justice system and society.

Too frequently, race is a topic that is avoided, which means that we perpetuate inequitable outcomes. Other times, when race is talked about, but without an equity strategy, implicit bias is triggered and inequities exacerbated. How we talk about race matters. The good news is that there is a useful field of practice to inform effective communications about race. This toolkit is a collection of the key strategies that the Center for Social Inclusion has found necessary in combating the race wedge and advancing racial equity. Effectively talking about race is an essential skill for advancing racial equity.

These courses were developed by Black women, and will teach you to recognize and work against racism.

This toolkit from Chicago Beyond is a starting point. There are many valuable resources available to support you as you seek to understand and become anti-racist. The first step is being open to learning and committing to the ongoing journey of becoming anti-racist.

The Advancement Project is a policy, communications and legal action group committed to racial justice.

Founded in 1996, The African American Policy Forum is an innovative think tank that connects academics, activists and policy-makers to promote efforts to dismantle structural inequality.

The ACLU dares to create a more perfect union — beyond one person, party, or side.

The Anti-Racist Alliance is a collective of human service practitioners and educators whose vision is to bring a clear and deliberate anti-racist structural power analysis to social service education and practice.

#BlackLivesMatter was founded in 2013 in response to the acquittal of Trayvon Martin’s murderer.

Color Of Change is the nation’s largest online racial justice organization.

The mission of Crossroads is to dismantle systemic racism and build anti-racist multicultural diversity within institutions and communities.

The principal mission of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law is to secure equal justice for all through the rule of law, targeting in particular the inequities confronting African Americans and other racial and ethnic minorities.

The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights is a coalition charged by its diverse membership of more than 200 national organizations to promote and protect the civil and human rights of all persons in the United States.

The mission of the NAACP is to secure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights in order to eliminate race-based discrimination and ensure the health and well-being of all persons.

Established in 1910, the Urban League is the nation's oldest and largest community based movement devoted to empowering African Americans to enter the economic and social mainstream.

The goal of the Philanthropic Initiative for Racial Equity is to increase the amount and effectiveness of resources aimed at combating institutional and structural racism in communities through capacity building, education, and convening of grantmakers and grantseekers.

Race Forward believes that pressing political conflicts demand a serious treatment of racial equity that addresses both a history of injustice and contemporary problems.

The Race Matters Institute works toward a more just and vibrant nation where every child, family and community thrives.

The Southern Anti-Racism Network develops campaigns and projects in the South to end racial disparities in criminal justice, economic opportunities, education, environment/housing and health care.

The Southern Poverty Law Center is dedicated to fighting hate and bigotry and to seeking justice for the most vulnerable members of our society.

YWCA is dedicated to eliminating racism, empowering women and promoting peace, justice, freedom and dignity for all.