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4-Week Anti-Racism Challenge (ARC)
WEEK 3: July 14 - 20, 2023
This is your own personal journey. To participate, we ask that you complete at least 3 activities this week. You can use the ARC Tracking tool below to monitor your progress. Choose from the following:
READ: In February, U.S. Senator Cory Booker (D-N.J.) and U.S. Representative Ayanna Pressley (D-MA) reintroduced the American Opportunity Accounts Act, legislation that would create a federally-funded savings account for every child in order to make economic opportunity a birthright for everyone in America and help close the racial wealth gap.
https://www.booker.senate.gov/news/press/booker-pressley-reintroduce-bicameral-baby-bonds-legislation-to-tackle-wealth-inequality
WATCH: In this 1-minute video, Bill Nye The Science Guy explains differences in skin color. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOkj5jgC4sM
–For a deeper dive into this subject, see this 14 minute Ted Talk from anthropologist Nina Jablonski: https://www.ted.com/talks/nina_jablonski_skin_color_is_an_illusion?language=en
LEARN: Black Americans experienced 1.6 million excess deaths compared to the White population over a 22-year period, study finds. The study explores the link between the disadvantages that Black people incur and the “enormous amounts of years lost in early death,” according to the lead doctor on the Yale School of Medicine study.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/black-americans-excess-deaths-compared-to-white-population-study/
LISTEN: To this “Race Unwrapped” podcast as Michelle Tyrene Johnson talks with Rain Pryor, Richard Pryor’s daughter, about how her father used comedy to explore race.
https://www.lpm.org/news/2023-06-15/race-unwrapped-how-rain-pryor-embodies-her-fathers-legacy-of-using-humor-to-explore-race?utm_source=Louisville+Public+Media&utm_campaign=09e840aa5f-WFPLDaily_061923&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-aad16477e8-%5BLIST_EMAIL_ID%5D&ct=t(WFPLDaily_061923)
WATCH: This 5 ½ minute video in which Dara Starr Tucker explains “The Truth about Confederate Flags and Monuments.” *Note who is the politician in front of the Confederate flag at 4:24 (It's Mitch)
https://youtu.be/8rzdHTq5SYE
READ/LEARN: In March 2023, the Department of Justice completed its investigation of Louisville Metro Police Department and issued a scathing report of the Department’s pattern and practices of abuse, especially toward Louisville’s Black residents. The report is well-written, and the information is important to know—but at 90 pages, it’s a bit of a read. We have broken the report into 4 sections (one for each week of the ARC). Read Section 3:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-gMq4cjJYncLbdvx5YsKk48BpjBkjtPs/view?usp=drive_link
**The full report can be accessed at this link: https://www.justice.gov/crt/case-document/file/1572951/download
JOURNAL: (From author Bryan Cohen) Discuss a time in which you were made uncomfortable by someone talking about race. Did you change the subject or put in your two cents? Go into detail about what you believed the other people involved in the conversation were thinking. Add what you might say now.
WATCH: Once Upon A Time… When We Were Colored, based on Clifton Taulbert’s critically acclaimed 1989 memoir of the flow and texture of Black life in the Mississippi delta. With outstanding performances from Phylicia Rashad, Richard Roundtree, and others. Roger Ebert wrote of the film, “It is almost impossible to express the cumulative power of "Once Upon a Time . . . When We Were Colored." It isn't a slick, tightly packaged docudrama, but a film from the heart…a celebration of the human qualities that endured and overcame.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8K9X2u1JQU
VISIT: Sis Got Tea, a Black, queer, woman-owned tea shop and cafe at 976 Barret Avenue. https://www.sisgotteaky.com/
READ: A 68-year old white woman, who grew up in segregation, earns her college degree at HBCU Simmons College of Kentucky. https://www.wdrb.com/news/education/68-year-old-woman-graduates-named-valedictorian-at-kentuckys-hbcu-after-growing-up-in-segregation/article_49976ec0-f4f2-11ed-b36d-33f69edc46ec.html?mibextid=Zxz2cZ&fbclid=IwAR2SfeoqojDy9CdBsx-e5hB6_1IeejOAaafmcTTAOIbJoNzJOXJUz9a4W4s.
WATCH: This short video on Kentucky Poet, Effie Waller Smith
https://youtu.be/Jx28A4GOeME
**Afterward, read Smith’s poem, “Bachelor Girl,” and if possible, read it aloud for its pure delight! https://www.poetrynook.com/poem/bachelor-girl
VISIT: The Speed Museum’s exhibit, Louisville’s Black Avant-Garde: Robert L. Douglas, with more than 30 paintings, drawings, prints, and sculptures. Learn more and get tickets here: https://www.speedmuseum.org/exhibitions/louisvilles-black-avant-garde-robert-l-douglas/
READ: Justice Department reaches settlement with Madison County Kentucky Schools for Racial Harassment of students of color.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/14/us/kentucky-school-district-racial-harassment-settlement-doj/index.html
CREATE your own anti-racism activity. If you like, please share it with us at dikerrigan@listenlearnact.org so we can pass the idea on to others.
CONNECT: Invite a friend to the ARC. It’s not too late. Just send them this link to sign up! https://lp.constantcontactpages.com/su/gYgTGac/listenlearnact
Thank you for your commitment.
Debbi and Di
Use the link below to copy or download this ARC Tool to track your progress:
ARC tracking tool.xlsx
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