Resources

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*This list is always growing and we welcome any additional resources you may have. Additionally, we recognize this topic is sensitive and especially for those with lived experiences, some resources may be triggering.

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Here are some resources that can help you lead change in your personal commitment to EDIB:

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• Harvard Implicit Association Test

• Racism Scale, Where Do You Fall?

• Raising White Kids: Bringing Up Children in a Racially Unjust America.

• Be a Better Ally

• McMaster University Library Anti-Racism Resource Guide

  • Media Section

• McMaster Equity & Inclusion Office

• Diversity and Inclusion – McKinsey & Company

• The Hidden Value of Culture Makers – Accenture

• How to be an Inclusive Leader

• Diversity, Equity and Inclusion – Institute for Public Relations

• Five Tips for Being An Ally

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Our team recommends you read these books

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• Policing Black Lives, Robyn Maynard

• The Skin We’re In, Desmond Cole

• How to be an Antiracist, Ibram X Kendi

• Me and White Supremacy, Layla Saad

• Becoming, Michelle Obama

• So You Want To Talk About Race, Ijeoma Oluo

• Me and White Supremacy, Layla F. Saad

• Waking Up White, Debby Irving

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Additionally, if you are looking for more to read our team recommends choosing from these curated lists:

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• 5 Essential Books About Being Black in Canada, Today – by Kyerell Grant

• Black Lives Matter – Canadian Reading List – by Mita Williams

• Black Lives Matter – Book List – Barrie Public Library

• 25 books about being Black in Canada – CBC Books

• Black Lives Matter Instructional Library 

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Other Available Multi-Media Resources

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Documentaries, Movies and Television:

• 13th

• Black Lives Matter: Anti-Racisim Resources Streaming for Free by Christopher Rosen

• Enslaved

• Greenbrook

• Hidden Figures

• Homecoming

• Marshall

• Negro National Anthem

• Quincy

• They’ve Gotta Have Us

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Podcasts

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• 1619 – New York Times

• Colour Code

• Colour Me PR

• Seat at the Table

• The Conversation Piece

• Turning the Lens

• The Secret Life of Canada

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Childrens Education

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• Fresh Air – Talking about Race with Kids, Janelle Brady

• Your Kids Aren’t Too Yound to Talk About Race: Resource Roundup, Pretty Good Design

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Videos

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• BLM Co-founder: Our Goal is Make All Lives Matter.

• Let’s get to the Root of Racial Injustice.

• I Can’t Breathe – Toronto Raptors

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Websites

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• Rella Black History Foundation

• Ontario Black History Society

• Black Lives Matter

  • Guiding Principles 

• ByBlacks.com

• Holla Back

• Southern Poverty Law Project

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Reports

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• Ontario Human Rights Commission: A Collective Impact: Interim report on the inquiry into racial profiling and racial discrimination of Black persons by the Toronto Police Services.

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Articles

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• Who Gets to Be Afraid in America? by Ibram X. Kendi

• America’s Racial Contract is Killing Us. by Adam Serwer

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We also recommend investigating the resources provided in the Anti-oppression toolkit by the Canadian Council for Refugees(CCR).

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If you have not watched them already, we suggest you catch up on the MCM Tuesday Talks – EDIB Series.

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