Below is a list of resources compiled by SWHPN staff, members, and stakeholders to help us and those in our field learn and self-reflect on issues surrounding health and racial equity. Without racial equity, there is no health equity; and without health equity, there is no racial equity. This list is an ongoing effort by SWHPN to provide our members and the public with tools and resources to learn, challenge ourselves, and have the hard conversations with ourselves, our peers, our colleagues, and our institutions.

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The 21-Day Racial Equity Challenge was developed by Eddie Moore Jr. You can find more information here.

• Pick one of the resources listed every day for 21 days. 
• Diversify your understanding by doing some of each. 
• Track and reflect by using the planning tool provided. 
• Share your reflections with others at the end of the challenge.  

• This is Us, Dr. Eddie Glaude explains why blaming current racial tensions on Donald Trump misses the point. (3 minutes) 
• Racism is Real, A split-screen video depicting the differential in the white and black lived experience. (3 minutes) 
• Confronting ‘intergroup anxiety’: Can you try too hard to be fair? Explores why we may get tongue tied and blunder when we encounter people from groups unfamiliar to us. (5 minutes) 
• CBS News Analysis: 50 states, 50 different ways of teaching America’s past, Ibram X. Kendi reviews current history curriculum production and use across the U.S. (5 minutes) 
• The Disturbing History of the Suburbs, An “Adam Ruins Everything” episode that quickly and humorously educates how redlining came to be. (6 minutes) 
• What Kind of Asian Are You? Humorous two minute YouTube video that illustrates the utter silliness of the way many white Americans interact with Asian Americans. (2 minutes) 
• Birth of a White Nation, Keynote speech by legal scholar Jacqueline Battalora, offers a blow-by-blow description of the moment the idea of, and word for, “white” people entered U.S. legal code. (36 minutes) 
• 13th, Netflix documentary by Ava DuVernay about the connection between US Slavery and the present day mass incarceration system. (1 hour, 40 minutes) 
• How to overcome our biases? Walk boldly toward them, TED Talk by Vernā Myers, encourages work vigorously to counter balance bias by connecting with and learning about and from the groups we fear. (19 minutes) 
• The danger of a single story, TED Talk by Chimamanda Adiche, offers insight to the phenomenon of using small bits of information to imagine who a person is. (18 minutes) 
• How to deconstruct racism, one headline at a time, TED Talk by Baratunde Thurston that explores patterns revealing our racist framing, language, and behaviors. (10 minutes  
• Indigenous People React to Indigenous Representation in Film And TV, Conversation with a diverse range of Indigenous people by FBE about media depictions of Indigenous people, Columbus day, and Indigenous identity. (15 minutes)  
• What Being Hispanic and Latinx Means in the United States, Fernanda Ponce shares what she’s learning about the misunderstanding and related mistreatment of the incredibly diverse ethnic category people in U.S. call Hispanic. (12 minutes)  
• Tyler Merrit Project: Before You Call (3 minutes)  

• 10 Ways Well-Meaning White Teachers Bring Racism Into Our Schools, by Jamie Utt 
• 21 Racial Microaggressions You Hear on a Daily Basis, by Heben Nigatu 
• Climbing the White Escalator, by Betsy Leondar-Wright 
• Explaining White Privilege To A Broke White Person, by Gina Crosley-Corcoran 
• Guide to Allyship, Created by Amélie Lamont 
• It’s Not Just the South: Here’s How Everyone Can Resist White Supremacy, by Sarah van Gelder 
• Making America White Again, by Toni Morrison 
• Understanding the Racial Wealth Gap, by Amy Traub, Laura Sullivan, Tatjana Mescheded, & Tom Shapiro 
• What White Children Need to Know About Race, by Ali MIchael and Elenora Bartoli 
• White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack, by Peggy McIntosh  
• My President Was Black, by Ta-Nehisi Coates  
• Caught Up In God, by Willie James Jennings 
• Who Gets to Be Afraid in America?, by Ibram X Kendi 

Listen:

• Code Switch, hosted by journalists Gene Demby and Shereen Marisol Meraji 
• Black Like Me, host Dr. Alex Gee  
• Scene on Radio – Seeing White Series, host John Biewen and collaborator Chenjerai Kumanyika  
• TED Radio Hour – Mary Bassett: How Does Racism Affect Your Health? host Guy Raz speaks with Dr. Mary T. Bassett, Director of the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard University  
• Here & Now – Without Slavery, Would The U.S. Be The Leading Economic Power? host Jeremy Hobson and author Edward Baptist 
• NPR Morning Edition – You Cannot Divorce Race From Immigration journalist Rachel Martin talks to Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jose Antonio Vargas 
• Pod Save the People, Activism. Social Justice. Culture. Politics. On Pod Save the People, organizer and activist DeRay Mckesson 

Test Your Awareness: Do The Test, This video shows us the importance of paying attention, and how much more we see when we are looking for particular things around us. 

• This document of Anti-Racism Resources, compiled 
• Letters for Black Lives
• Guide to Allyship
• COVID-19 Racial Equity & Social Justice Resources
• Suggested by social workers Lauren Schmidt, MSW, LICSW, APHSW-C, Daphne Lindsey, LICSW, and Elizabeth Julian, LICSW at Seattle Children's:
• COVID-19 Health Equity Resources from the University of Vermont
• The American Public Health Association's COVID-19 Health Equity Resource Page

Articles/Links:

• Why Racism, Not Race, Is a Risk Factor for Dying of COVID-19
• Fast Fact: Palliative Care in the African-American Community

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