The August Wilson African American Cultural Center received a sizable grant to help support “emerging artists of color” in Pittsburgh, according to a press release. The latest gift adds is on top of $350,000 the RK Mellon Foundation gave AWAACC earlier this year to create its new B.U.I.L.D. artist-in-residency program. B.U.I.L.D. (which stands for Build, Utilize, Inform, Lead,…

Long before the verdict was read Tuesday afternoon it was clear, especially in communities of color, that George Floyd was murdered and former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was guilty. What was also clear is that this trial was not just about Chauvin. And it not merely about the man he killed. The verdict was…

A Black police officer in Buffalo, New York, who was fired in 2008 for intervening when a White colleague employed a chokehold will be given back pay and a pension, CNN reports. The officer, Cariol Horne, was fired following a 2006 incident in which she tried to stop an officer from using a chokehold on…

Domestic terrorism incidents have soared to new highs in the United States, driven chiefly by white-supremacist, anti-Muslim and anti-government extremists on the far right, according to a Washington Post analysis of data compiled by the Center for Strategic and International Studies, the Washington Post Reports. The surge reflects a growing threat from homegrown terrorism not…

Planners of the interstate highway system, which began to take shape after the Federal Aid Highway Act of 1956, routed some highways directly, and sometimes purposefully, through Black and brown communities. In some instances, the government took homes by eminent domain, according to a story on NPR. It left a deep psychological scar on neighborhoods…

“What’s going on?” Nazario asked the officers, who shouted at him to get out of the SUV as they approached, guns drawn. “What’s going on?” Nazario asked the officers, who shouted at him to get out of the SUV as they approached, guns drawn. “I’m honestly afraid to get out,” Nazario told the officers. “Yeah, you should…

On the morning of March 17, Liz Kleinrock contemplated calling out of work. The shootings at three Atlanta-area spas had happened the night before, leaving eight dead including six women of Asian descent, and Kleinrock, a 33-year-old teacher in Washington, D.C., who is Asian-American, felt the news weighing on her heavily, according to a story in TIME….

More than half of the Black adopted kindergarteners in the United States are raised by families of another race — usually, White. And while almost always well-meaning, these White adoptive parents must also know and understand the itinerant racism, fetishizing, adultification and stereotyping imposed on their Black children from an early age, according to an opinion by Rebecca…

To help fight racism, consider these organizations that focus on education and children. The Highlights Foundation Diversity Fellowship in Children’s Literature The The Brown Bookshelf Presents: Amplify Black Stories The I, Too Arts, Collective Scholarship Fund The Anti-bias Book Bearer Program & Scholarships The Floyd Cooper Scholarship Fund The Diversify Science Scholarship for Illustrators The Jewish Writers/Illustrators of Color Scholarship Fund…

Breaking the pernicious patterns of racism is a process that is recursive, ongoing, and strenuous. This list of resources is a place to begin, and will be added to as items are shared. There is much work to be done. Please join us in your own personal journey towards becoming anti-racist. This is not a…