Day 2 Description

We are well aware that racism adversely impacts people of color--but has anyone considered the impact of white supremacy on white people? In the video, "Racism has a Cost for Everyone", Political commentator and strategist, Heather C. McGhee, shares the hidden cost of racism to our society.
WATCH, LISTEN or READ: Racism Has a Cost for Everyone (May 8, 2020 | 14 min)


We learned early on in the pandemic that communities of color are being ravaged by the novel coronavirus, with the Black and Latinx communities faring the worst. Dr. Cheryl Anderson, professor and founding dean of The Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health and Human Longevity Science at UC San Diego, speaks with KPBS to explain these extremities in "How Redlining Contributed to Health Disparities".
READ or LISTEN: How Redlining Contributed to Health Disparities (July 13, 2020 | 8 min)


The National Equity Project, an organization focused on education reform, teaches us in "Don’t Talk about Implicit Bias Without Talking about Structural Racism", that we cannot begin to dismantle the structural inequities in education without checking both our biases and the systemic barriers sustained by these biases.
READ: Don’t Talk about Implicit Bias Without Talking about Structural Racism
(PDF) (June 13, 2019 | 12 min)
Link to article: chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://diversity.ucsd.edu/_files/21-Day%20Anti-Racism%20Challenge%20Files/Dont%20Talk%20about%20Implicit%20Bias%20Without%20Talking%20about%20Structural%20Racism.pdf