The time I’d normally spend writing about sales and marketing this week, instead I’m using to read books, perspectives and challenges that quite frankly are uncomfortable and unsettling.
I have a lot of questions, not the least of which are:
- How to better educate myself
- What I can do personally
- What I should be doing to help our kids increase their awareness, understanding and action
- What we should be doing from Heinz Marketing (from the company and with employees)
- What I can do in the community to more actively be part of the solution
I don’t have all of the answers yet. I do have a handful of links, reading recommendations, some video content and other resources that have come from a variety of good sources (colleagues, schools, etc.) to share with you. If you have other sources or perspectives you’d like us to add, please add them in the comments below or email me and I’ll add it directly to this post.
Reading
- Understanding Race & Privilege (from the National Association of School Psychologists)
- Your Kids Aren’t Too Young To Talk About Race
- K-8 Distance Learning Activities for Racial Justice
- Books on anti-racism you can read right now
- Anti-racism for beginners
- Talking to kids about race
- Additional race and equity books for elementary school children (click on each to have them read aloud)
- So You Want To Talk About Race (very good albeit uncomfortable reading)
- US Businesses Must Take Meaningful Action Against Racism (some good ideas from Harvard Business Review)
- For white leaders who want to self educate
- Antiracism.co (tons of links, people to follow, etc.)
- 75 things white people can do for racial justice
Watching
- Something Happened In Our Town (animated version of a great children’s book)
- 13th (Netflix documentary on the criminalization of African Americans)
- Jimmy Fallon addresses past mistakes and speaks to NAACP president Derrick Johnson (Jimmy’s monologue is worth the watch alone)
- Ted Talk by an eight-year-old, talking about what “being black” means to him
- Systematic Racism Explained
- Unconscious bias: Fuel diversity and a better you (Udemy class)
Giving (some lesser-known organizations our team members have supported)
- Campaign Zero (supporting policy change)
- Fair Fight (fighting voter suppression)
- The Marshall Project (nonprofit journalism for criminal justice)
