DEI Resources

DEI Resources

Allies 

• How Not to be an Ally: Common missteps and advice for effective allyship, Psychology Today 

• Want to support Black Lives Matter? Here’s where to start in Pittsburgh., Kidsburgh 

• Talking About Race, National Museum of African American History & Culture 

Anti-Racism 

• Anti-Racism Library 

• An Anti-Racist Reading List, The New York Times 

• Antiracism Meditation 

• Additional Anti-Racism Resources 

• Anti-Racism Resources, Sarah Sophie Flicker and Alyssa Klein 

• Black History Month Library 

Behavioral Health 

• SAMHSA Office of Behavioral Health Equity - Resources

• SAMHSA Center of Excellence for Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health Consultation (IECMHC) 

• African Americans and Mental Health (American Psychiatric Association) (PDF | 915 KB) 

• African Americans Have Limited Access to Mental and Behavioral Health Care (American Psychological Association) 

• African American Health (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) 

• Mental Health Support and Education, Steel Smiling 

• Mental Health Issues Facing the Black Community, Sunshine Behavioral Health 

• Black and African American Communities and Mental Health (Mental Health America) 

Children 

• The critical role white parents play in shaping racism — and eradicating it, PBS 

• Race Research Online Directory, University of Pittsburgh School of Social Work 

• Guide for Selecting Anti-Bias Children's Books, Social Justice Books

• How to raise anti-racist kids: 20 resources for parents, Motherly 

• Why Raising Kids to "Not See Color" Doesn’t Help Fight Racism, HuffPost 

• Race and Equity Resource List, Pennsylvania Department of Human Services 

• Confronting Prejudice: How to Protect Yourself and Help Others, Pepperdine University 

• In My Skin Podcast, University of Pittsburgh Office of Child Development 

• Our Family’s Commitment to Being Anti-Racist, PBS Kids 

• Black Boys Matter: Cultivating Their Identity, Agency, and Voice, NAEYC 

History 

• African American History: From Emancipation to the Present, Yale 

• 5 Ways White People Can Take Action in Response to White and State-Sanctioned Violence, Medium 

Housing 

• Advancing Racial Equity in Housing and Community Development: An Anti-Racism Guide for Transformative Change by the National Initiative on Mixed-Income Communities, Case Western Reserve University  

Legal System 

• Racial Bias, Data Science, and the Justice System, Abt Associates 

Organizations 

• Center for Race & Gender Equality, YWCA Greater Pittsburgh 

• C4Innovations https://c4innovates.com/training-technical-assistance/equity/ 

• Color of Change https://colorofchange.org/ 

• Live Free USA

• Advancement Project 

• KIND (Kids In Need of Defense)

• Las Americas Immigrant Advocacy Center

• Race Forward 

Substance Use 

• Black Lives Matter, Substance Abuse, and Addiction Recovery in the United States, Addicted.org 

Additional Resources: Blogs, Podcasts, Media 

• Video: “I Can’t Breathe: From Agony to Activism’”, Pitt Diversity 

• Video: What I am learning from my white grandchildren – truths about race, TEDx Talks 

• Video: Juneteenth Round Table with Rep. Chris Rabb & Rep. Ed Gainey, For Our Future 

• Podcast: Notice the Rage, Notice the Silence, On Being with Krista Tippett 

• Citizen Journalism and Political Protests, Syracuse University 

• Talking About Race, National Museum of African American History & Culture 

• Health and Housing Equity: a new report released by the American Public Health Association, The Medical Care Blog 

• Talks to Help You Understand Race in America, TEDx Talks 

• Video: "What Would You Do?"  

• Video: Wealth Equity , Ted Talk  

• Systemic Racism in Psychiatry is Real 

Books and Articles 

• Habits of Whiteness: A Pragmatist Reconstruction by Terrance Macmullan 

• The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America by Khalil Gibran Muhammad 

• Raising White Kids: Bringing Up Children in a Racially Unjust America by Jennifer Harvey 

• Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves by Glory Edim 

• How To Be An Antiracist by Ibram X Kendi 

• I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness by Austin Channing Brown 

• Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America by James Forman Jr. 

• So You Want To Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo 

• Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do by Jennifer L. Eberhardt, Ph.D. 

• Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor by Layla F. Saad 

• White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk about Racism by Robin Diangelo 

• The Possessive Investment in Whiteness: How White People Profit from Identity Politics by George Lipsit 

• The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander 

• The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin 

• When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America by Ira Katznelson 

• The Making and Unmaking of Whiteness by Matt Wray, Eric Klinenberg, Irene J. Nexica and Birgit Brander Rasmussen 

• Women, Race & Class by Angela Y. Davis 

• This Bridge Called My Back, Fourth Edition: Writings by Radical Women of Color by Cherrie Moraga and Gloria Anzaldúa 

• Sesame Workshop Is Talking More Explicitly About Race—and Welcoming Two Black Muppets by Cady Lang, Time Magazine March 23, 2021 

• “How to Be an Ally if You Are a Person with Privilege“ by Frances E. Kendall

• “White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack“ by Peggy McIntosh

• “The Case for Reparations“ by Ta-Nehisi Coates

• “Excerpt from Privilege, Power and Difference“ by Allan Johnson

• “I used to lead tours on a plantation. You wouldn’t believe the questions I got about slavery“ by Margaret Biser

•  “Allyship and Accountability Glossary“ by Levana Saxon

• “Blacks and whites see racism in the United States very, very differently“ by Ryan Struyk

• “Born that Way: Scientific racism is creeping back into our thinking“ by Matthew Hughey & W. Carson Byrd

• “Fear of the Black Man: How Racial Bias Could Affect Crime, Labor Rates“  - by Michel Martin, NPR

•  “10 Messages of Wisdom We Need to Give Black Youth Right Now“ by Ernest Owens

•  “The Racist Housing Policy that Made Your Neighborhood“ by Alexis Madrigal

• “15 Charts That Prove We’re Far From Post-Racial“ Braden Goyette and Alissa Scheller

• “A ‘Historic Moment’ for Native Americans“ by Julie Turkewitz

• “When Whites Just Don’t Get It, Parts 1-7“ by Nicholas Kristof, 

• “Marrianne Williamson Asked White People To Apologize. She Got It Right“ by Joy Sewing

• “They Considered Themselves White, But DNA Tests Told a More Complex Story“ by Tara Bahrampour,