Anti-Racism Update 7.9.25

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AR QUIZ

  • Who said, “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?”

EDUCATION

  • Practical Reverence: An Interview with Robin Wall Kimmerer. Listen to or read this interview with Robin Wall Kimmerer, author of The Serviceberry, where the Potawatomi botanist details the time of abundance in the summer when service berries are ready for harvest and sharing. This interview covers spirituality, ecology, principles of economics, and how to be in relation with the earth and each other. Learn more here: https://emergencemagazine.org/conversation/practical-reverence/
  • What is your unconscious thinking? This episode of The Hidden Brain podcast taps into prejudice. While most people would not consider themselves prejudiced against people who are different from them, there is research and evidence that can reveal our unconscious biases. Learn more by listening to this episode of The Hidden Brain podcast: Revealing Your Unconscious: Part 1. https://hiddenbrain.org/podcast/revealing-your-unconscious-part-1/

ACTION

  • Take the Implicit Association Tests. Visit Project Implicit at Harvard, and take or more implicit association tests to see what your own unconscious biases may be. Tests are available for race, age, gender, religion and more. https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/takeatest.html

AR QUIZ ANSWER

  • Frederick Douglass gave a keynote address on July 5, 1852, entitled, What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? View the speech here, which is still relevant today in the struggle for equality and freedom.

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