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Beloved Community Releases Equity Audit.
A funny thing happened during our pilot year. We scoured the globe for the best resources to support diversity, equity, and inclusion capacity-building supports.
What We Learned Our First Year.
What our pilots for Equity in Schools and Equity at work taught us about supporting organizational change and deepening our own practices.
The MLK Essay We’re Rereading Today
When people ask me how we chose our name or what it means, I describe it in deliberate, painstaking language.
#BeLove: Developing Skills for Personal Change.
Social Emotional Learning, or SEL, is a trending education practice today. But what does it mean for kids of color?
#BeLove: When Youth Lead.
New York State has the most segregated schools in the United States. The largest contributor of this figure? The New York City Department of Education
Equity Doesn't Happen in Silos.
Reflections from Julie Zdonek, our 2017 Beloved Research Fellow from Education Pioneers.
#BeLove: Troublemakers of The Best Kind.
Today, twenty-four lively, high school leaders are boarding a flight for their first summer trip together. In addition to the requisite pillows and playlists, these youth will also be unpacking tough questions about race and equity in the US during this trip.
#BeLove: A Seat at the Table.
When recently-elected St. Louis Mayor, Lyda Krewson, appointed Nicole Hudson as Senior Policy Advisor for Racial Equity, she knew that Hudson would bring “the people’s report” to City Hall.
#BeLove: What Change Looks Like.
“ We need to be weapons of mass construction, weapons of mass love. It’s not enough to change the system, we need to change ourselves.” - Assata Shakur
In February, we launched the #BeLove series to profile organizations committed to ending structural racism and bias. We were invited to share this series at Sanctuary, a multimedia installation at the San Damiano Mission in Brooklyn, NY.
#BeLove: Is Equity the End Goal?
Chances are, if you’ve attended an Undoing Racism® workshop anywhere in the US (and many countries abroad), you’ve been influenced by the work of Ron Chisom and Dr. Jim Dunn.