Day 5 Description

The media continues to report on the protests for Black lives rippling throughout the country, with some news sources calling the Black Lives Matter movement the biggest movement in our nation's history3. While public ire and outcries in solidarity with the Black community are helpful in elevating these dire issues, support does not stop at protests and social media posts. Dr. Dayo Gore, associate professor of ethnic and critical gender studies at UC San Diego, speaks with ABC News 10 on what support looks like beyond words and marches.
WATCH, LISTEN or READ: Ways to Help Combat Racism: 'Your Apology is Not Enough' (June 1, 2020 | 5 min)

As we reflect back on everything we've read, watched, or listened to during this first week of the 21-day challenge, we come to understand from the research and data that the effects of anti-Black racism are real and deeply devastating. Despite it all, why is it still so hard for white people to talk about race? Dr. Robin DiAngelo seeks to explain this phenomenon in her article "White Fragility."
READ: White Fragility (2011 | 17 pgs | 51 min)

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