21-Day Racial Equity Habit Building Challenge

21-Day Racial Equity Habit Building Challenge

At the start of the spring 2022 semester and during the next twenty-one (21) days, as a community, the Delaware Law School participated in the 21-Day Racial Equity Habit-Building Challenge.

Thanks to all students, faculty and staff who participated in the challenge and encouraged others to do so! 

Racial Equity Habit Building Challenge Content:

• Day 1: Nikole Hannah-Jones, America Wasn’t a Democracy, Until Black Americans Made It One, The New York Times (Aug. 14, 2019), PDF access here
• Day 2: How to Not (Accidentally) Raise a Racist, Longest Shortest Time Podcast
• Day 3: Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Case for Reparations, The Atlantic (May 21, 2014)
• Day 4:
  • Danielle Cadet, Your Black Colleagues May Look Like They Are Okay – Chances Are They Are Not (May 2020)
  • Katy Waldman, A Sociologist Examines The “White Fragility” That Prevents White Americans From Confronting Racism, New Yorker (July 23, 2018)
• Day 5: Megan Ming Francis, Let’s get to the root of racial injustice, TEDTalks (March 21, 2016)
• Day 6: Janice Gassam, Your Unconscious Bias Trainings Keep Failing Because You’re Not Addressing Systemic Bias (Forbes, Dec. 29, 2019)
• Day 7: James McWilliams, Bryan Stevenson On What Well Meaning White People Need To Know About Race: An interview with Harvard University-trained public defense lawyer Bryan Stevenson on racial trauma, segregation, and listening to marginalized voices, Pacific Standard (updated Feb 18, 2019)
• Day 8:
  • Kristen Rogers, Dear anti-racist allies: Here’s how to respond to microaggressions, CNN
  • Ali Vingiano, 63 Black Harvard Students Share Their Experiences In A Powerful Photo Project, BuzzFeed (March 3, 2014)
• Day 9:
  • Jolie A. Doggett, 4 Questions About Hair that Black Girls Are Tired of Answering, HuffPost (Feb. 14, 2020)
  • Jessica Moulite, Exclusive: Rep. Ayanna Pressley Reveals Beautiful Bald Head and Discusses Alopecia for the First Time, The Root (Jan. 16, 2020)
  • Hair Love, Oscar-Winning Short Film (Full), Sony Pictures Animation, YouTube (Dec. 5, 2019)
• Day 10: Chana Joffe-Walt, Talking While Black, This American Life (January 7, 2022)
• Day 11:
  • Karma Allen, More than 50% of homeless families are black, government report finds, ABCNews (Jan. 22, 2020)
  • Scott Winship, Richard V. Reeves, and Katherine Guyot, The Inheritance of Black Poverty: It’s All About the Men, Brookings (March 22, 2018)
• Day 12:
  • John Biewen, Seeing White (14-part series podcast, 2017),  S2 E14: Transformation (44 minutes, 10 seconds) or,
    • if pressed for time: John Biewen, Seeing White (14-part series podcast, 2017),  S2 E2: How Race Was Made
• Day 13:
  • The Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture launched Talking About Race, an “online portal designed to help individuals, families, and communities talk about racism, racial identity and the way these forces shape every aspect of society, from the economy and politics to the broader American culture.”
• Day 14:
  • National Conference for Community and Justice, Colorism 
  • Natasha S. Alford, Why Some Black Puerto Ricans Choose ‘White’ on the Census: The island has a long history of encouraging residents to identify as white, but there are growing efforts to raise awareness about racism, The New York Times (Feb. 9, 2020)
• Day 15:
  • Bryan Stevenson ’85, “We can’t recover from this history until we deal with it.” legacy of slavery and the vision for creating the National Memorial for Peace and Justice and The Legacy Museum, Harvard Law School YouTube (Jan 30, 2019)
  • Hannah Giorgis, Black Art is dangerous because it marries the personal and the political, The Guardian (Feb. 22, 2015)
  • Reggie Ugwu, Lena Waitheʼs Art of Protest: The “Queen & Slim” writer on mixing art and politics, the key to collaboration and those infamous comments about Will Smith and Denzel Washington, The New York Times (Dec. 2, 2019)
• Day 16: Carlos Sandoval and Peter Miller, A Class Apart, PBS American Experience Films (February 23, 2009)
• Day 17:
  • Amanda Gorman, Why I Almost Didn’t Read My Poem at the Inauguration, NY Times (January 20, 2022); PDF access here
  • Perspectives in Poetry:
    • Richard Wright – Between the World and Me
    • Langston Hughes – Harlem
    • June Jordan – Poem for Ms. Fannie Lou Hamer
    • Audre Lorde –  Who Said it Was Simple
    • Claudia Rankine – You are in the dark, in the car . . .
    • Alice Walker – The World Rising
  • Perspectives on Change:
    • Nina Simone – Mississippi Goddam
    • The Beatles – Revolution #1
    • Nina Simone – Revolutions (Pts. 1 & 2 )
• Day 18 : Peggy McIntosh, Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack of White Privilege
• Day 19: Verna Myers, How to Overcome Our Biases? Walk Boldly Toward Them, TED Talk
• Day 20:
• George Johnson, White gay privilege exists all year, but it is particularly hurtful during Pride, NBC News (June 30, 2019)
• Laverne Cox Talks about Intersectionality at Harvard (March 11, 2014)
• D-L Stewart, Black Trans* Lives Matter (TEDxTalks) (April 22, 2019)
• Day 21:
• Sam Dylan Finch, 9 Phrases Allies Can Say When Called Out Instead of Getting Defensive, Everyday Feminism (May 29, 2017)