ALWD Leadership & Development Committee Resources on Antiracism, Wellness, and Addressing Our Current Moment^[1]

Blog Posts & Articles

• Shontavia Johnson, What You Can Do Right Now: Do Good, and If You Aren’t Black, Pull Up (Johnson is Associate Vice President for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Clemson University)
  • Johnson has also circulated the following articles:
    • Courtney Ariel, For Our White Friends Desiring to Be Allies, Sojourners (Aug. 16, 2017)
    • Jennifer Harvey, How Do I Make Sure I’m No Raising the Next Amy Cooper?, Embrace Race
    • Danielle Cadet, Your Black Colleagues May Look Like They’re OK, Chances Are They’re Not, Refinery 29 (May 28, 2020)
    • Zyahna Bryant, Beyond the Hashtag: How to Take Anti-Racist Action in Your Life, Teen Vogue (May 28, 2020)
    • Brittany Wong, 11 Things to Do Besides Say “This Has to Stop” In the Wake of Police Brutality, HuffPost (May 29, 2020)
  • Gerardo Ramos-Colón, Mental Health, Injustice and Oppression, Center for Personal Development (May 30, 2020)
  • Angela Neal-Barnett, PhD, African Americans With Anxiety: How to Overcome Unique Obstacles, Anxiety and Depression Association of America
  • Jacqueline Howard, Racism is a Public Health Issue and “Police Brutality Must Stop” Medical Groups Say, CNN (June 1, 2020)
  • Rachel Miller, Self-Care Tips for Black People Who Are Struggling With This Very Painful Week, Vice (May 28, 2020)
  • Amanda Lynch, Facing Racial Trauma--Again and Again--as a Black Woman with Anxiety, The Mighty (May 2020)
  • Anne Branigin, How “Spoon Theory” Can Help You Monitor and Manage Your Mental Well Being During Turbulent Times, The Root (May 29, 2020)
  • Averi Harper, How Viral Videos of Killings of Black Men Take a Toll on Black Male Mental Health, ABCNews (May 29, 2020)
  • Sandee LaMotte, How to Talk to Your Children About Protests and Racism, CNN (June 2, 2020)
  • Clint Smith, Becoming a Parent in the Age of Black Lives Matter, The Atlantic (June 1, 2020)

Scholarly articles

• Sha-Shana Crichton, Incorporating Social Justice into the 1L Legal Writing Course: A Incorporating Social Justice into the 1L Legal Writing Course: A Tool for Empowering Students of Color and of Historically Tool for Empowering Students of Color and of Historically Marginalized Groups and Improving Learning Marginalized, Michigan Journal of Race and Law (2019)
• Jessica R. Graham-Lo-Presti, PhD et al., The Link Between Experiences of Racism and Stress and Anxiety for Black Americans: A Mindfulness and Acceptance-Based Coping Approach,

Reports

• American Bar Association, Commission on Women in the Profession, Bias Interrupters Project--You Can’t Change What You Can’t See (report on interrupting bias in the legal profession)
  • Jeena Cho, New Implicit Bias Tool Offers Insights and Answers, ABA Journal (June 1, 2020) (article about the interrupting bias study)

Books

• Dear White People, the Lit.Bar (curated list of books from a bookstore owned by Afro Latina, Noelle Santos)
• Layla F. Saad, Me and White Supremacy (2020)
• Sadie Trombetta, 10 Books About Race to Read Instead of Asking a Person of Color to Explain Things to You, Bustle (June 1, 2020)
• Bettina Love, We Want to Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom (2019)
  • 90-minute talk with Dr. Love and two other African American experts at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture last March.

Organizations

• Safe Black Space (offering community healing circles in response to the trauma of systemic racism for those who self-identify as being of African ancestry)
• Black Women Radicals and its Voices In Movement blog
• Antiracist Research & Policy Center
• The Loveland Foundation and its Therapy Fund
• Elizabeth’s Bookshop & Writing Centre

Teaching Tools/Other

• Inventory of Inclusive Teaching Strategies, The Center for Research on Language and Teaching, University of Michigan
• Jane E. Dutton and and Monica C. Worline, Educators, It’s Time to Put Your On Your Compassion Hats, Harvard Business Publishing Education (April 3, 2020)
• Family-Care, Community-Care, and Self-Care Tool Kit: Healing in the Face of Cultural Trauma, Community Healing Network (and other organizations) (July 2016)
• Resources for Supporting Protesters, Pence Law Library Guides, Washington College of Law, American University
• Talking About Race, National Museum of African American History & Culture

^[1] Items were originally compiled by members of the ALWD Leadership & Development Committee as well as research assistants. We hope that members of our broader community will help us to expand this list.