From Michelle Weber’s blog Perhaps you have noticed that America is on fire. Perhaps you have noticed that people of color are disproportionately dying of
These are some of the characteristics of white supremacy culture which show up in our organizations. Culture is powerful precisely because it is so present and at the same time so very difficult to name or identify. The characteristics listed below are damaging because they are used as norms and standards without being pro-actively named or chosen by the group. They are damaging because they promote white supremacy thinking. They are damaging to both people of color and to white people. Organizations that are people of color-led or a majority people of color can also demonstrate many damaging characteristics of white supremacy culture.
Before we can share our own big news with you below: Wow. What a time in history this is.
Hundreds of thousands of people are courageously rising up in defense of black lives, and police are showing off their brutality in cities all across the country.
There is so much we can all do, and protesting is just one of them.
By Dax-Devlon Ross in the June 5th NonProfit Quarterly On Friday afternoon I got a call with a buddy I hadn’t spoken to in a couple
From the Washington Post By Tre Johnson I am 10 and watching my grandfather’s back stiffen and shrink as an officer pulls us over on
The social justice issues being addressed in our world at this turbulent time are mammoth, reflecting long-standing structural and systemic racism. Privileged straight white males have been guardians of such systems, purveyors of it, whether intentionally or unintentionally, and have benefited from it, including myself. This is about the transition from Straight White Males RULE to rules for straight white males.
My Grandmother’s HandsResmaa Menakem points out that one of two things will happen now. Ideally, America will grow up and out of white-body supremacy; Americans will begin healing their long-held trauma around race; and whiteness will begin to evolve…The other possibility is that white-body supremacy will continue to be reinforced as the dominant structured form of energy in American culture. In much the same way Aryan supremacy dominated German culture in the 1930s and early 1940s.”
Courtney Martin, in this recent blog gets right to the point. We’re waking up because our attention is finally available, because COVID has taught us
This Scientific American article by Zeynep Tufekci is more than an essay about one TV show with dragons. He uses fan reactions to the final
