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Avery Foundation
In 1978, a group of Avery graduates (Averyites) and friends of Avery organized The Avery Institute of Afro-American History and Culture. Its purpose was to obtain the old Avery Normal School buildings and establish in them an archives and museum dedicated to preserving Afro-American history and culture in the South Carolina Lowcountry. Its first president was the Honorable Lucille S. Whipper, a former member of the South Carolina House of Representatives from Charleston County.
USC Racial Equity
At the USC Race and Equity Center, we aim to be helpful. Actionable intelligence, as well as scalable and adaptable models of success, inform our ongoing quest for racial equity. Our work matters because race continues to matter in our country. Dismantling an issue as big as racism requires a robust interdisciplinary network of expert scholars, as well as a wide range of strategies, tools, partnerships, and resources.
Racial Equity Institute
Is an alliance of trainers, organizers and institutional leaders who have devoted ourselves to the work of creating racially equitable organizations and systems. They help individuals and organizations develop tools to challenge patterns of power and grow equity.
Center for Social Inclusion
Their mission is to catalyze community, government and other institutions to dismantle structural racial inequity and create equitable outcomes for all. They craft and apply strategies and tools to transform our nation’s policies, practices and institutions, in order to achieve racial equity.
The Coalition of Communities of Color
The Coalition of Communities of Color’s mission is to address the socioeconomic disparities, institutional racism, and inequity of services experienced by our families, children and communities; and to organize our communities for collective action resulting in social change to obtain self-determination, wellness, justice and prosperity.
Equal Justice Initiative
EJI is a private, nonprofit organization that challenges poverty and racial injustice, advocates for equal treatment in the criminal justice system, and creates hope for marginalized communities.
Race Forward
Race Forward catalyzes movement building for racial justice. In partnership with communities, organizations, and sectors, we build strategies to advance racial justice in our policies, institutions and culture.
The Race Matters Institute
The Race Matters Institute works toward a more just and vibrant nation where every child, family and community thrives. For more than a decade we have helped government units, nonprofits, community-based and regional organizations, philanthropies and state and national networks to become more race-informed and equity-focused in their work.
VIA Institute on Character
Based in Cincinnati, Ohio, the VIA Institute on Character is a non-profit organization dedicated to bringing the science of character strengths to the world. We do so by creating and validating surveys of character, supporting researchers, and developing practical strengths-based tools for individuals and professionals, such as therapists, managers and educators. In this spirit, the VIA Survey is offered free of charge worldwide in many languages.
WNC Nonprofit Pathways Social Justice Advocacy Guide
This site has been created in order to provide a list of resources and possible allies for those interested in social justice, systems advocacy and public policy.
South Carolina Collaborative for Race and Reconciliation
Housed in the Office of Diversity and Inclusion, the South Carolina Collaborative on Race and Reconciliation was developed with the mission to foster racial reconciliation and civic renewal through ongoing dialogues and actions on university campuses and in communities requesting assistance with problems and issues of race. The Collaborative’s work focuses on inclusiveness and the participation of individuals who are committed to exchanges of personal reflections about race in their lives and the desire to build bridges among participants and, in turn, to bring about effective multiracial progress.
YWCA Charleston
We are dedicated to eliminating racism, empowering women, and promoting peace, justice, freedom, and dignity for all. And we will settle for nothing else.
The Race and Social Justice Initiative
The mission of the Race and Social Justice Initiative (RSJI) at the College of Charleston is to promote public awareness and dialogue about race and social justice issues in the Charleston area, the state of South Carolina, and beyond, through a collaborative effort led by the Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture, Addlestone Library, the African American Studies Program, the Lowcountry Digital History Initiative (LDHI), and multiple community partners.
Children’s Trust of South Carolina
Children’s Trust of South Carolina is the only statewide organization committed to preventing child abuse, neglect and injury.
The 1619 Project from The New York Times
The 1619 Project is an ongoing initiative from The New York Times Magazine that began in August 2019, the 400th anniversary of the beginning of American slavery. It aims to reframe the country’s history by placing the consequences of slavery and the contributions of black Americans at the very center of our national narrative.
Racial Equity Resource Guide
America Healing is a strategy for racial healing toward racial equity, and is designed to raise awareness of unconscious biases and inequities to help communities heal. In support of America Healing, we have created this comprehensive and interactive racial equity resource guide that includes practical resources including articles, organizations, research, books, media strategies and training curricula aimed at helping organizations and individuals working to achieve racial healing and equity in their communities.
Avarna, Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion (DEI) Vocab
Harnessing our passion and experience to identify, craft, and implement equity, inclusion, diversity, and relevancy efforts.
South Carolina Adverse Childhood Experience (ACE) Data by Race
SC Adverse Childhood experience data by race/ethnicity: these provide a snapshot of how ACEs affect different races and can be used as a tool to empower action.
Children’s Trust of South Carolina’s Race for Results
SC child well-being data by race/ethnicity: resources to inform the elimination of racial and ethnic disparities in child well-being outcomes.
South Carolina Racial Equity Impact Assessment Guide
SC Racial Equity Impact Assessment Guide: manual to evaluate policy impact on racial and ethnic groups to determine how to proactively achieve equitable outcomes.
Harvard Implicit Association Test
Project Implicit is a non-profit organization and international collaboration between researchers who are interested in implicit social cognition – thoughts and feelings outside of conscious awareness and control.
Institute On Character
When you discover your greatest strengths, you learn to use them to handle stress and life challenges, become happier, and develop relationships with those who matter most to you. What are your strengths?
Annie E. Casey Foundation’s Race Equity and Inclusion Action Guide
Anyone can advocate for social justice. To help prevent racism and ensure race equity, start where you are and with the people around you to champion and embed inclusion within your organization.
Dr. Joy DeGruy Leary: Post Traumatic Slave Disorder
P.T.S.S. is a theory that explains the etiology of many of the adaptive survival behaviors in African American communities throughout the United States and the Diaspora. It is a condition that exists as a consequence of multigenerational oppression of Africans and their descendants resulting from centuries of chattel slavery. A form of slavery which was predicated on the belief that African Americans were inherently/genetically inferior to whites. This was then followed by institutionalized racism which continues to perpetuate injury.
Dr. Robin DiAngelo discusses ‘White Fragility’
University of Washington professor Dr. Robin DiAngelo reads from her book “White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism,” explains the phenomenon, and discusses how white people can develop their capacity to engage more constructively across race.
Tricia Rose on How Structural Racism Works
Professor Patricia Rose, Director of Brown University”s Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America, delivers the inaugural Provost Lecture Series.
The Black Tax: The Cost of Being Black in America with Shawn Rochester
In his new book, Shawn Rochester shows how The Black Tax (which is the financial cost of conscious and unconscious anti-black discrimination), creates a massive financial burden on Black American households that dramatically reduces their ability to leave a substantial legacy for future generations. Mr. Rochester lays out an extraordinarily compelling case that documents the enormous financial cost of current and past anti-black discrimination on African American households.
The Story We Know About Poverty Isn’t True with Mia Birdsong
As a global community, we all want to end poverty. Mia Birdsong suggests a great place to start: Let’s honor the skills, drive and initiative that poor people bring to the struggle every day. She asks us to look again at people in poverty: They may be broke — but they’re not broken.
The Danger of Silence with Clint Smith
“We spend so much time listening to the things people are saying that we rarely pay attention to the things they don’t,” says slam poet and teacher Clint Smith. A short, powerful piece from the heart, about finding the courage to speak up against ignorance and injustice.
We Need to Talk About an Injustice with Brian Stevenson, Author of Just Mercy
In an engaging and personal talk — with cameo appearances from his grandmother and Rosa Parks — human rights lawyer Bryan Stevenson shares some hard truths about America’s justice system, starting with a massive imbalance along racial lines: a third of the country’s black male population has been incarcerated at some point in their lives. These issues, which are wrapped up in America’s unexamined history, are rarely talked about with this level of candor, insight and persuasiveness.
Biased by Jennifer Eberhardt
You don’t have to be racist to be biased. Unconscious bias can be at work without our realizing it, and even when we genuinely wish to treat all people equally, ingrained stereotypes can infect our visual perception, attention, memory, and behavior. This has an impact on education, employment, housing, and criminal justice. In Biased, with a perspective that is at once scientific, investigative, and informed by personal experience, Jennifer Eberhardt offers us insights into the dilemma and a path forward.
Eberhardt works extensively as a consultant to law enforcement and as a psychologist at the forefront of this new field. Her research takes place in courtrooms and boardrooms, in prisons, on the street, and in classrooms and coffee shops. She shows us the subtle–and sometimes dramatic–daily repercussions of implicit bias in how teachers grade students, or managers deal with customers. It has an enormous impact on the conduct of criminal justice, from the rapid decisions police officers have to make to sentencing practices in court. Eberhardt’s work and her book are both influenced by her own life, and the personal stories she shares emphasize the need for change. She has helped companies that include Airbnb and Nextdoor address bias in their business practices and has led anti-bias initiatives for police departments across the country. Here, she offers practical suggestions for reform and new practices that are useful for organizations as well as individuals.
Unblinking about the tragic consequences of prejudice, Eberhardt addresses how racial bias is not the fault of nor restricted to a few “bad apples” but is present at all levels of society in media, education, and business. The good news is that we are not hopelessly doomed by our innate prejudices. In Biased, Eberhardt reminds us that racial bias is a human problem–one all people can play a role in solving.
The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness is a book by Michelle Alexander, a civil rights litigator and legal scholar. The book discusses race-related issues specific to African-American males and mass incarceration in the United States, but Alexander noted that the discrimination faced by African-American males is prevalent among other minorities and socio-economically disadvantaged populations.
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Between the World and Me is a 2015 book written by Ta-Nehisi Coates and published by Spiegel & Grau. It is written as a letter to the author’s teenage son about the feelings, symbolism, and realities associated with being Black in the United States.
White Awake by Daniel Hill
Daniel Hill will never forget the day he heard these words: “Daniel, you may be white, but don’t let that lull you into thinking you have no culture. White culture is very real. In fact, when white culture comes in contact with other cultures, it almost always wins. So it would be a really good idea for you to learn about your culture.” Confused and unsettled by this encounter, Hill began a journey of understanding his own white identity. Today he is an active participant in addressing and confronting racial and systemic injustices. And in this compelling and timely book, he shows you the seven stages to expect on your own path to cultural awakening. It’s crucial to understand both personal and social realities in the areas of race, culture, and identity. This book will give you a new perspective on being white and also empower you to be an agent of reconciliation in our increasingly diverse and divided world.
The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates by Wes Moore
Two kids named Wes Moore were born blocks apart within a year of each other. Both grew up fatherless in similar Baltimore neighborhoods and had difficult childhoods; both hung out on street corners with their crews; both ran into trouble with the police. How, then, did one grow up to be a Rhodes Scholar, decorated veteran, White House Fellow, and business leader, while the other ended up a convicted murderer serving a life sentence? Wes Moore, the author of this fascinating book, sets out to answer this profound question. In alternating narratives that take readers from heart-wrenching losses to moments of surprising redemption, The Other Wes Moore tells the story of a generation of boys trying to find their way in a hostile world.
So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
In this New York Times bestseller, Ijeoma Oluo offers a hard-hitting but user-friendly examination of race in America Widespread reporting on aspects of white supremacy–from police brutality to the mass incarceration of African Americans–have made it impossible to ignore the issue of race. Still, it is a difficult subject to talk about. How do you tell your roommate her jokes are racist? Why did your sister-in-law take umbrage when you asked to touch her hair–and how do you make it right? How do you explain white privilege to your white, privileged friend? In So You Want to Talk About Race, Ijeoma Oluo guides readers of all races through subjects ranging from intersectionality and affirmative action to “model minorities” in an attempt to make the seemingly impossible possible: honest conversations about race and racism, and how they infect almost every aspect of American life.
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Raceology 101 & Witness To The Truth by Cleo Scott Brown
Cleo Scott Brown, author of Witness to the Truth and Raceology 101, speaks, writes and conducts workshops on issues of race, voting, class, and bias through her company History Matters Institute. Her company focuses on using history to generate meaningful, insightful discussions that lead to introspection and change. She has experienced many things, and like her father, who is the central figure in her first book, she believes that their experiences have been for a greater purpose.
At seven, she was in the car with her father when he was shot for trying to get the right to vote. At nine, she was watching her father pull up Klan crosses from the end of the road to their home. At ten, she was hiding while her older brothers and sisters did target practice in order to defend the house if the family was attacked at night. At 11, she was helping adults learn how to pass the multi-part citizenship test required to register to vote. She got to become a little human guinea pig in a school integration experiment at age 12, an experience that proved to be more traumatic than the constant threat of being killed. And then at 17, she was off to experience the black power movement at the predominately Black Grambling State University and at 21, affirmative action quotas and some racial healing at General Motors in Anderson, Indiana. Her and her father’s direct personal experiences, combined with a lack of bitterness and anger, provide the rare but necessary combination that moves people to introspection and action.
The Intentional Inclusionist® & Next-Level Inclusionist by Nika White
Dr. Nika White is a national authority and fearless advocate for diversity, inclusion, and equity. As an award-winning management and leadership consultant, keynote speaker, published author, and executive practitioner for D&I efforts across business, government, non-profit and education, Dr. White helps organizations break barriers and integrate diversity into their business frameworks.
Over her 20 years of leadership, Dr. White has worked with over 80 corporate, educational, government and non-profit brands, managed over $200 million in business assets for her clients, and written two books on diversity, equity, and inclusion. She has presented over 125 keynote speeches and presentations across the country on issues such as team engagement, organizational leadership, strategic diversity, and intentional inclusion. Dr. White’s talks bring a mixture of expertise, passion, vision, and authentic style to create holistic takeaways for audiences.
The heart of Dr. White’s work is around being able to create transformative environments with intentionality around inclusion. She helps create professional spaces where people can collaborate through a lens of compassion, empathy, and understanding.
Awake to Woke to Work: Building a Race Equity Culture, sessions 1 and 2 held by Ericka Hines
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– Thursday, March 5 from 2-3:30 p.m.
– Friday, March 5 from 9-10:30 a.m.
Preventing and Elminating Employment Discrimination by Dan Koon
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– Thursday, March 5 from 2-3:30 p.m.
You Count You Matter: Building Equitable Communities Together by Kayla Mallet & Chynna A. Phillips
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– Thursday, March 5 from 3:45-5:15 p.m.
Thinking Consciously About Our Biases by Cleo Scott Brown
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– Thursday, March 5 from 2-3:30 p.m.
7 Steps to Race Equity by Dee Robinson
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– Thursday, March 5 from 3:45-5:15 p.m.
Addressing Inequlities Within the Food System Through Local Food Policy Councils by Ashley Page and Carrie Draper
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– Friday, March 6 from 9-10:30 a.m.
All Land Is Not Equal by Jennie Stephens, Russell Hubright, and Ann English
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– Thursday, March 5 from 3:45-5:15 p.m.
Racial Equity Data Collection in South Carolina by Daron Lee Calhoun and Kara Davis
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– Thursday, March 5 from 11 am-12:30 p.m.
Equity + Inclusion = Burnout Prevention by Kat Morgan
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– Wednesday, March 4 from 2-5 p.m.
The Color of Mass Incarceration by Kate Weaver Patterson and Jerry Blassingame
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– Thursday, March 5 from 2-3:30 p.m.
Two Toxic Sites: A Parable of Environmental Inequity by Marilyn Hemingway, Chandra Dillard, Deanna Miller Berry, Dorothy Dowe, and Michael Corley
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– Thursday, March 5 from 2-3:30 p.m.
Tools for Conducting A Cultural Equity Audit by Marlena E. McKnight and Margie Reese
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Creating A Culture of Inclusion by Nika White
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– Thursday, March 5 from 3:45-5:15 p.m.
Disparities, Gaps, & Inequalities: The Role of Race in Shaping Rural Communities by Charles Weathers
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– Friday, March 6 from 9-10:30 a.m.
Funding Success for Children of Color by Quinetha Frasier
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– Friday, March 6 from 9-10:30 a.m.
Are You INclusive? by Ottilia Scanlon and Ricaye Harris
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Are You INclusive? by Ottilia Scanlon and Ricaye Harris
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– Friday, March 6 from 9-10:30 a.m.
Pursuing Health Equity by Scott E. Porter
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– Thursday, March 5 from 11 am-12:30 p.m.
Equity, Inclusion & Board Effectiveness by Shawn S. Edwards
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– Friday, March 6 from 9-10:30 a.m.
Salad vs. Soup: Understanding the Difference Between Diversity and Inclusion by Tadean Page
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– Thursday, March 5 from 2-3:30 p.m.
Do Your Fundraising Practices Reflect Racial and Cultural Bias? by Toni Jernigan
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– Thursday, March 5 from 3:45-5:15 p.m.