Check out featured diversity, equity, and inclusion related stories in the news:
- If Hindsight is 2020, Why Are We Still Not Saved?
- Join the African American Policy Forum Wednesday, January 13, at 8:00 p.m. ET (5:00 p.m. PT) for the 2021 premiere of the acclaimed Under the Blacklight series. Scholar Kimberlé Crenshaw will be joined by powerful panelists to demystify how the events on January 6, 2021 were an utterly predictable consequence of dynamics that were clearly legible through 2020. Panelist include Carol Anderson, David Blight, Anoa Changa, Kiese Laymon, and Joe Lowndes.
- Organized Radical Collegiate Activism (ORCA) Conference
- Join the ORCA Conference held on February 12-13, 2021 from 10:00 am - 3:00 pm. This unique virtual student-led conference aims to address the challenges and advantages of doing social justice advocacy work on college campuses. Through this online conference, students will have an opportunity to share and present with their peers across the nation on advocacy work that students have done on different campuses to tackle social justice issues addressing one or more of the conference themes: Challenges, advantages, issues, and/or organizing of student activism, advocacy, or how to incorporate social justice into campus work on college campuses to relay that social justice has no boundaries.
- Careers in Social Justice and Human Rights
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A career in human rights is both rewarding and competitive. This is a compiled list of common human rights career paths for your consideration. You will find information about the scope of work for each human rights career, the required qualifications and the average salary of each job profile.
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- Colts’ Darius Leonard Narrates Black Lives Matter Social Justice PSA
- The NFL is premiering the most recent installment of its league’s Say their Stories series highlighting what Black Lives Matter means to Indianapolis Colts linebacker Darius Leonard. Say Their Stories is a season-long NFL initiative to continue the theme of social justice and raising awareness of systemic racism that has resonated throughout the nation, and enact fundamental change by amplifying the names and stories of victims of police brutality through player voices to drive the narrative forward. Click the link above to hear Leonard's story.
- A Podcast Featuring Modern Arabic Children’s Stories
- Amal Alsadek is an Ontario, Canada-based teacher, grandmother and podcaster. Her inspiration for her children’s podcast, Storytime With Teta, came from her time spent reading to her seven grandchildren. Today Storytime with Teta has over 1.4k subscribers and she is in the middle of successful second season.