Websites

The Brown Bookshelf is designed to push awareness of the myriad of African American voices writing for young readers. Their flagship initiative is 28 Days Later, a month-long showcase of the best in Picture Books, Middle Grade and Young Adult novels written and illustrated by African Americans.

Colorlines is a news site founded by Race Forward, a national organization devoted to advancing racial equity through media.  Race matters in the journalism of Colorlines, which covers news from a variety of perspectives and includes groups that are often underrepresented or absent in mainstream media. 

Groundwork is a White Anti-Racism Collective based in Madison, whose goals are to engage white people to work for racial equity and to collaborate with organizations led by people of color.  

Race to Equity web site and Race to Equity: A Baseline Report on the State of Racial Disparities in Dane County

Cap Times: Together Apart: The Cap Times Explores Race in Madison

Nehemiah Center for Urban Leadership

Groundwork

YWCA's Race & Gender Equity Resources

Families for Justice

City of Madison Racial Equity & Social Justice Initiative

Madison area “Equity Rocks” Facebook page

Covering topics as varied as travel and style to balancing work and motherhood, mater mia's website 'tells the stories of black women at the intersection of career and motherhood.'

Nehemiah Center for Urban Leadership Development fosters emerging leaders in the African American community and offers programming for youth, men reentering the community after incarceration and neighborhood economic development.  It is also home to the Justified Anger Coalition, which seeks to establish a plan to address the long-standing and harmful effects of racial disparities in the Madison community. 

Project Implicit is a non-profit organization and international collaboration between researchers who are interested in implicit social cognition - thoughts and feelings outside of conscious awareness and control. The goal of the organization is to educate the public about hidden biases and to provide a “virtual laboratory” for collecting data on the Internet. Tests include social attitudes of race, gender, age and other topics.  Login not required.  

The Wisconsin Council on Children and Families (WCCF) sponsored this project to narrow and ultimately eliminate racial disparities in Dane County and, eventually, all of Wisconsin.  The roadmap calls on members of the community to achieve three overarching goals:  1) increase employment, income and wealth among people of color in Dane County, 2) improve support for low-income families of color to achieve success on the job and at home and 3) increase and strengthen support for children and youth of color to succeed in school. 

The Root has been providing fine journalism from a variety of black perspectives since 2008.  It covers all aspects of American life, including international and national news coverage, arts and culture reporting, opinion and politics. 

At Teaching for Change, we are proud of our carefully selected booklists that highlight titles by and about people of color as well as social justice themes. Teaching for Change is proud to offer a diverse selection of titles that encourage children and adults to question, challenge, and re-think the world beyond the headlines.

Understanding Race, a project of the American Anthropological Association considers how race is perceived in three ways:  History, Human Variation, and the Lived Experience.

We Need Diverse Books is an organization of children's book authors, educators, creative artists and children's literature lovers that works for change in the publishing industry to ensure that all children will be able to picture themselves in the pages of a book.  The site features booklists, where to find and purchase diverse literature, mentorships and programs to promote diversity in books at home and in the classroom.