Toolkits | Awareness
“Here’s where we are.”
Resources on the awareness page can be used for communities to start discussions that provide information and allow people to come together to explore current realities. Dialogues on race provide an opportunity for people to share their own stories & journeys in a safe space and learn from the experiences of others, while building communities based on trust and a common vision on justice.
Center for Courage Renewal – Reconnecting Who You Are With What You Do
From the CCR: The mission of the Center for Courage & Renewal (CCR) is to nurture personal and professional integrity and the courage to act on it.
- Helping people who wish to live and work more wholeheartedly renew themselves, reclaim their vocational vitality, and deepen their professional practice.
- Supporting these people in becoming forces for positive change in their workplaces, professions, and communities, as well as in the lives of the people they serve.
- Contributing to the growing national conversation about reclaiming integrity and courage in professional and public life.
The Center helps foster personal and professional renewal through supporting retreats that offer the time and space to slow down and reflect on life and work.
The Welcome Table – An Era of a Dialogue on Race
From the Welcome Table: In 2005, a group of citizens from diverse faith and social communities came together to explore what Mississippi might look like if it were a social justice state. What might be the conversations and actions we would undertake to make Mississippi a better place for everyone specifically through overcoming racism?
The Mississippi Coalition for Racial Justice, as the group became known, decided to promote educational dialogue in communities that would lead toward achieving justice across the state. We believe that change comes through dialogue and relationship building, followed by effective community action.
Southern Poverty Law Center
SPLC is a nonprofit civil rights organization dedicated to fighting hate and bigotry, and to seeking justice for the most vulnerable members of society.
Intelligence Report - SPLC's award-winning quarterly magazine reports on hate and extremism.
Teaching Tolerance - Free to teachers, Teaching Tolerance magazine and kits encourage equitable school experiences.
Civil Rights Memorial - Honoring the achievements and memory of those who lost their lives during the Civil Rights Movement.
Hate Map
Stand Strong Against Hate map
Ten Ways to Fight Hate: A Community Resource Guide
Speak Up: Responding to Everyday Bigotry
Current Trends with Muslim community in US:
American Islamic Congress
Responding to hate speech guide
Teacher's Guide on Islam
The William Winter Institute for Racial Reconciliation - Community Dialogue Handbook
This Winter Institute's “Equipping Communities to Heal Themselves” Winter Institute Resource Guide (PDF)
This guide includes steps for success and case studies to explore within communities. The basic premise of this toolkit is that communities are their own best resource and the community dialogue handbook provides the tools to create communities that can heal themselves.
The Institute for the Study of Social Change (ISSC)
ISSC is committed to fostering a new generation of scholars who address problems of social change in innovative and interdisciplinary ways. http://issc.berkeley.edu/training_intro.php
Courageous Conversations About Race
Courageous Conversations About Race Book for purchase, $41.95
Race: The Power of an Illusion
3 episode series and Discussion Guide from PBS - Order the video.
View the discussion guide: Race: The Power of Illusion Discussion Guide (PDF)
This series aims to help us all navigate through our myths and misconceptions, and scrutinize some of the assumptions we take for granted. In that sense, the real subject of the film is not so much race but the viewer, or more precisely, the notions about race we all hold.
YES! Magazine | Issue 53 | America: The Remix
Our crises - from the economy to the climate - are too big and too immediate to allow race to continue dividing us. This issue of YES! brings stories of the people and collaborations that are helping the national finally accept its identity as a multiracial society.
Read the issue
View the discussion guide: America the Remix Discussion Guide (PDF)
YES! discussion guides are designed to help you explore your own experiences, opinions, and commitments as they reate to materials found in YES! magazine. Use them in group discussions, classrooms or study circles.
Race Manners by Bruce A. Jacobs - Navigating the Minefield between Black and White Americans
Order the book. View the discussion guide Race Manners Discussion Guide (PDF)
Excerpt from the Discussion Guide: The purpose of this guide is to spur people to think and talk more openly about the ideas raised in Race Manners. Most of us need help with this. We have learned to skirt racial topics in order to avoid the aggravation of yet another pointless argument, to dodge the potential shame of looking or sounding bigoted, and to do our best to push everyday racial stress out of our lives in a world already full of worries and anger. We need a way to reclaim truth-telling.
Conducting a Discussion on Race: Community Dialogue Guide
The Community Relations Service (CRS) is a U.S. Department of Justice component created by the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to help resolve community racial conflict through non-coercive, third party intervention. CRS is called upon to assist communities to resolve disputes arising from biases of race, color, and national origin. As a result, agency conciliators have developed extensive experience in issues associated with racial and ethnic conflict. Conducting a Discussion on Race: Community Dialogue Guide