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Exploring Diversity Talks and Discussions

Black Feminist Loretta J. Ross Combats Cancel Culture   [NPR]  Duration: 18:00   

Born a Girl in the Wrong Place [TED: Khadija Gbla]  Duration:  18:45

A Broken Body Isn't a Broken Person  

Can a Divided America Heal?  [Jonathan Haidt, TED NYC]

Changing the Way We Talk about Disability  [TED: Amy Oulton]  Duration: 14:49

Code Switch.  NPR podcast.

Color Blind or Color Brave?.  TED 2014 talk.

Colorlines [ blog].

Dr. Jacqueline Battalora and Jane Elliott Debate White Privilege.

Don’t Know Much About History [Hit Parade podcast]   Duration: 2h:00       

The Emotional Cost of Being a Black Woman in America  [TED: Monica Johnson] Duration: 15:39

The Enlightenment's Dark Side:  How the Enlightenment created modern race thinking, and why we should confront it   [Slate Magazine] (Jamelle Bouie)

Epigenetics: Birth of a White Nation (The Invention of "White" People) (Philippe Matthews and Jacqueline Battalora).

Europeans invented the concept of race as we know it: Its origins can be traced to the colonization of the Americas  (Anjana Cruz; Timeline)

The Faces of Racism: A History of Blackface and Minstrelsy in American Culture  (Dr. Rhae Lynn Barnes)  [Backstory]   

Fifty Shades of  White: the Long Fight against Racism in Romance Novels (Lois Beckett, The Guardian)

The Fight For Civil Rights And Freedom  (TED Legacy Project: John Lewis and Bryan Stevenson)  Duration: 23:39  

Finding Myself in the Story of Race.  TED x Fenway talk by Debby Irving.

The Future of Race in America (Michelle Alexander)  [TEDxColumbus]

Guide to Creating Accessible Presentations  [Digital Library Federation]   

Helen LaFrance: Memories  Duration: 34:55

The Hidden Heroes of the Civil Rights Movement [The Washington Post

How Environmental Racism Shapes the US (PBS Interview with Robert Bullard)  Duration: 17:28   

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Discussing Race   (Jay Smooth, TEDxHampshireCollege) 

How Negro History Week Became Black History Month and Why It Matters Now (Veronica Chambers; The New York Times)

How to Disagree Productively and Find Common Ground  [TED BCG Toronto]   Julia Dhar .

How to Go Beyond Diversity and Inclusion to Community and Belonging   (TED: E'Ula Green)  Duration:  14:24

How to Overcome our Biases?  Walk boldly toward them.  (Vemā Myers)  TED X Beacon Street

Inclusion, Belonging and the Disability Revolution  [TED: Jennie Fenton]  Duration: 23:01

Indigenous In Plain Sight  [TED: Gregg Deal]  Duration: 13:21

Indigenous Storytelling as a Political Lens   [TED: Tai Simpson]  Duration: 17:37

International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance    [ IHRA Working Definition of Antisemitism ]  

The Invention of Heterosexuality and the Impact of Whiteness with Dr. Jacqueline Battalora  (Philippe SHOCK Matthews)

Learning the New Language of Racism: The natural human desire is to avoid and deny things that are painful (Jonathan W. Kanter, Ph.D. and Daniel C. Rosen Ph.D.) [Psychology Today].

Let’s Change The Way We Think About Disability  (TED:  Joel Dembe)  Duration:  16:05

Malcolm X at Berkeley  

Mitigating Implicit Bias: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Action  (Molly Higgins and Rachel Keiko Stark; American Libraries Magazine)  

The Moment when Four Students Sat Down to Take a Stand (Christopher Wilson, Smithsonian Magazine, January 21, 2020)

Our Fight for Disability Rights and Why We're Not Done Yet [TED: Judith Heumann]   Duration: 21:15

Practical Diversity: Taking Inclusion from Theory to Practice.  TEDxUGA talk by Dawn Bennett-Alexander.

Retracing Slavery’s Trail of Tears: America’s Forgotten Migration – The Journeys of a Million African-Americans from the Tobacco South to the Cotton South. Edward Ball. Smithsonian Magazine.

A Sociologist Examines the 'White Fragility' That Prevents White Americans from Confronting Racism.  Katy Waldman.  New Yorker.

Speaking Out.  ABC Radio National  ("Politics, arts and culture from a range of indigenous perspectives").

The symbols of systemic racism – and how to take away their power  (Paul Rucker)  TED2018

Teaching Tolerance Interviews Robin DiAngelo: White Fragility in the Classroom

Tulsa Historical Society and Museum   Documents from the 1921 Race Massacre 

Uniquely Human [podcast] :  Autism and Personal Fulfillment with Dr. Temple Grandin  Duration: 1:04:37     

Voices of the Movement  (Jonathan Capehart, The Washington Post podcast series)  .

What is Privilege?

What Can We Do about the Culture of Hate  (Sally Kohn) TED Talk.

What's Missing from the American Immigrant Narrative  [TED: Elizabeth Camarillo Gutierrez]  Duration: 10:53 

White Fragility and Whiteness as a Trauma Response   [Philippe SHOCK Matthews with Dr. Robin DiAngelo, Dr. Jacqueline Battalora, and Resmaa Menakem]

Why Design Should Include Everyone  [TED: Sinéad Burke]  Duration: 9:49

18th Annual Brown Lecture in Education Research