Staff Empowerment Resources
External Resources
A special thanks to the Center for Diversity and Inclusion (CDI) for providing many of the resources listed on this webpage.
Dialogue and Professional Development
- Talking About Race (National Museum of African American History & Culture)
- The Conversation: Tips on Having Conversations About Race (Center for Diversity and Inclusion, CDI)
Professional Development
- Black Minds Matter (public/free online course - https://coralearning.org/bmm/
- National Conference on Race and Ethnicity (NCORE) - https://www.ncore.ou.edu/en/
- Social Justice Training Institute (SJTI) - https://sjti.org/
Streaming Resources
Films/ Documentaries
- I Am Not Your Negro – Amazon Prime
- Trail by Media: 41 Shots/Amadou Diallo (Episode 4) – Netflix
- 13th – Netflix
- Just Mercy – Hulu
- Black Power Mixtape: 1967-1975 – Netflix
- Dear White People – Netflix
- King in the Wilderness – HBO
- When They See Us - Netflix
Podcasts
Literature and Educational Resources
Books
- So You Want to Talk About Race – Ijeoma Oluo
- The Racial Contract – Charles Mills
- How to Be an Antiracist – Ibram X. Kendi
- The Fire Next Time – James Baldwin
- Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome – Dr. Joy DeGruy
- Just Mercy – Bryan Stevenson
- The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness – Michelle Alexander
- When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-
- Century America – Ira Katznelson
- White Fragility – Dr. Robin DiAngelo
Articles/Misc Resources
- Racial Equity Tools Glossary
- Anti-Racism Packet
- Anti-Racism Resources
- Civil-Rights Protests Have Never Been Popular - Ta-Nehisi Coates
- Letter from Birmingham Jail - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
- The pandemic has exposed the bitter terms of our racial contract
- A Timeline of Events That Led to the 2020 'Fed Up'-rising
- How White Managers Can Respond to Anti-Black Violence
- UH Center for Diversity and Inclusion - Resources
- Resources and Reading Lists for National Arab American Heritage Month
Local
- Civil Rights in Houston, Then and Now: Houston Matters for Monday, January 20, 2014 - Craig Cohen, Houston Public Media, January 20, 2014
- Walking in the Light of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. - JGoode, Houston Style Magazine, January 14, 2010