The resources below are from ELA’s ‘21 Day Racial Equity Habit-Building Challenge ©'. These are resources are publicly available and ELA is pleased to gather them here to make them accessible to all.
If your organisation would like to run your own challenge using these resources, you may do so, provided you acknowledge that this was the ‘ELA 21 Day Racial Equity Habit-Building Challenge ©' and that you acknowledge in your materials the founder of the 21 day challenge,
Dr Eddie Moore Jr, 21-Day Racial Equity Challenge — America & Moore (eddiemoorejr.com)
Day 1
How to be a true ally, with Obioma Ugoala
Watch or Listen (4 mins)
https://twitter.com/PoliticsJOE_UK/status/1268264740171759616
Day 2
About Race, with Reni Eddo-Lodge
Listen (25 mins)
https://www.aboutracepodcast.com/1-things-can-only-get-better
Day 3
Looking Like A Lawyer, an article by Tsedale M. Melaku
Read (8 mins):
https://hbr.org/2019/08/why-women-and-people-of-color-in-law-still-hear-you-dont-look-like-a-lawyer
Day 4
Black, British & Jewish, an article by Lara Monroe
Read (5 mins):
How I Celebrate Black History Month As A Black British Jew | HuffPost UK Life
Day 5
Time to Speak Out with Human rights lawyer Dexter Dias QC
Watch or listen (21 mins):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrAaHpoaLIc&feature=share
Day 6
White Privilege/There Are No Black People in Africa
Watch/Listen (3 mins)
What is white privilege? - BBC Bitesize
Read (5 mins)
https://medium.com/an-injustice/there-are-no-black-people-in-africa-84fbeabb39c6
Day 7
Death by 1000 Cuts
Watch (2 mins)
https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/microaggression-meaning-definition-racism-black-lives-matter-george-floyd-a9568506.html
Day 8
You Clap For Me Now
Read (9 mins)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXGIt_Y57tc
Day 9
#BlackInTheOffice
Read (7 mins)
https://www-stylist-co-uk.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.stylist.co.uk/long-reads/black-hashtags-activism-microaggressions-online-black-lives-matter-racism/412830/amp
Day 10
Three Pounds in My Pocket
Listen - you have to create/sign in to your BBC Sounds account (28 mins)
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/b065vsdv
Day 11
Speaking the Truth
Read (7 mins)
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/mar/28/confronting-racism-is-not-about-the-needs-and-feelings-of-white-people
It’s Easier To Be A Parent This Morning
Read (3 mins)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/nov/07/cnn-van-jones-tears-joe-biden-victory
Day 12
Race & the Employment Justice System
Read (7 mins)
https://www.gardencourtchambers.co.uk/news/do-black-lives-matter-in-the-employment-justice-system
Day 13
Letter to Zion
https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/lettertozion/read-the-letter
Read (11 mins)
Day 14
"Cause Maximum Disruption”
Leila Hassan Howe: ‘My life was made hell. You’d just hear a tirade against immigrants’ | Activism | The Guardian
Read (12 mins)
Day 15
Covid’s Racial Impact
Watch: Covid is running along racial lines - IPPR on Channel 4 News | IPPR
Watch (5 mins)
Ethnic inequalities in Covid-19 are playing out again – how can we stop them?
Read: Ethnic inequalities in Covid-19 are playing out again – how can we stop them?
Read (15 min)
Day 16
A Promised Land
Listen - you have to create/sign in to your BBC Sounds account (31 mins)
A Promised Land by Barack Obama - Barack Obama Talks to David Olusoga - BBC Sounds
Day 17
You Can’t be ‘Impartial’ About Racism
Read (5 mins)
You can’t be ‘impartial’ about racism – an open letter to the BBC on the Naga Munchetty ruling | BBC | The Guardian (ampproject.org)
Day 18
The Mangrove Nine
Listen (26 mins)
The story of the Mangrove Nine
Day 19
Not-racist v anti-racist
Watch (3 mins)
Not-racist v anti-racist: what’s the difference?
Black Woman First, Then Athlete
Read (6 mins)
“I’ve Been A Black Woman Longer Than I’ve Been An Athlete”: Katarina Johnson-Thompson On Her Personal Battle Against Racism
Day 20
What is Racial Literacy?
Read (5 mins)
Racial Literacy: What does it mean?
Test Your Unconscious Bias
Read (10 mins)
Test your 'unconscious bias': How do you judge other people? | ITV News
Day 21
Black Doll White Doll
Watch (9 mins)
Doll Test - YouTube
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