Diversity Education Resources

by Connor Hickey | Jul 1, 2020

Recent events have rekindled discussions of persisting racial injustices in America, and at SocialMadeSimple, we don’t believe these conversations should be limited to outside of the workplace. 

Below are some of the links our employees have shared with one another in the pursuit of education and acceptance. We hope that as a reader, you, too, can find them useful and enlightening in your efforts towards creating a more just and unified discourse. 

Ways to take action:

#DoTheWork:

https://instagram.us18.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=e7528b5266e654d0ce83c211d&id=1e469b88c0&fbclid=IwAR21TVO9cFWv1VloHA32Umr8YVpSueD64Y2X6xMWTvO230lHFnRVaYhfVTQ

https://blacklivesmatters.carrd.co/

Instagram:

Pull Up For Change:

https://www.instagram.com/pullupforchange/

Posts to SocialMadeSimple Instagram story:

https://www.instagram.com/p/CAygJoHABcX/?igshid=1ea6tlarsvqhz

https://www.instagram.com/p/CAdw65UHtwJ/?igshid=1wkac50aik9fp

https://www.instagram.com/p/CAvbZyVh1xc/?igshid=1pd49f9dlwi61

https://www.instagram.com/p/CA04VKDAyjb/?igshid=dtdtbo3qb6dn

Stories/ articles: 

Reddit, Acting Against Hate Speech, Bans ‘The_Donald’ Subreddit:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/29/technology/reddit-hate-speech.html?referringSource=articleShare

Reflections From a Token Black Friend:

https://humanparts.medium.com/reflections-from-a-token-black-friend-2f1ea522d42d

Books:

How to be an Anti-Racist:

https://www.ibramxkendi.com/how-to-be-an-antiracist-1

Don’t Call us Dead:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33375618-don-t-call-us-dead

An African American and LatinX History of the United States:

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/554578/an-african-american-and-latinx-history-of-the-united-states-by-paul-ortiz/

We Were Eight Years in Power:

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/550170/we-were-eight-years-in-power-by-ta-nehisi-coates/

Between the World and Me:

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/220290/between-the-world-and-me-by-ta-nehisi-coates/

This Bridge Called my Back:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Bridge_Called_My_Back

White Fragility:

https://www.audible.com/ep/title/?asin=B07D6XN8RJ&source_code=GO1GB12609141890JG&device=d&&cvosrc=ppc.google.%2Bwhite%20%2Bfragility&cvo_campaign=1078599350&cvo_crid=438977821336&Matchtype=b&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIta_utq-76gIVk4vICh15rg2qEAAYASAAEgKSLPD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds