Resources

The following resources are intended as a place to get started for anyone concerned about DEI issues. Additional resources for People of Color, and White Allies are on the Take Action pages of this website. This is a living list to which resources will be added. If you have recommendations, please email contact@publicmediaforall.com.

Public Media for All Webinars

• 11/10/2020 - Day of Action & Education

• 3/20/2021 - Field Notes From The Frontlines

• 7/8/2021 - DEI Lessons Beyond The Bubble

• 11/10/2021 - Vision 2022: An Imperative for Public Media’s Future

• 11/10/2022 - From Ally to All-In

• 11/14/2023 - Reignite the Flame: Renewing Your Commitment to Equity in Public Media

Newsrooms

• Dear Public radio, to better serve your listening audiences you must do better with POC journalists (Plugged App)

• Before You Can Fix Your Newsroom, You Need to Fix Your Life (S. Mitra Kalita)

• Diversity Audit Kit (Maynard Institute)

• Protect your magic: A survival guide for journalists of color (Brenda Salinas Baker)

• Dear newsroom managers, journalists of color can’t do all the work (Doris Truong)

• Journalists of Color Resource Guide

 Music Programming

• Classical Music Tries To Reckon With Racism — On Social Media (JPR)

• New Study of Classical Media Workforce Reveals Concerns About Aging Personnel, Skills Training & Digital Engagement (Spark News)

• 5 ways to diversify your music library (Mark Morton)

• Wis. Public Radio drops old-time radio shows over racist, sexist content (WDIO)

Funders

• Nonprofit Industrial Complex 101: a primer on how it upholds inequity and flattens resistance (Sidra Morgan)

• “It’s Time for an Intervention.” Edgar Villanueva Has a Message for Philanthropy (Julia Travers)

• 9 crappy paradoxes that shape nonprofit and philanthropy (Vu Le)

Challenging White Privilege and Systemic Racism

• Free trainings on addressing harassment and bystander intervention (Right To Be)

• The Characteristics of White Supremacy Culture (Kenneth Jones and Tema Okun)

• Becoming Anti-Racist (Surgery Redesign)

• Confronting Racism with Robin DiAngelo (LinkedIn Learning)

• How to Be an Antiracist: Ibram X. Kendi on Why We Need to Fight Racism the Way We Fight Cancer (Democracy Now! Interview)

• Scaffolded Anti-Racist Resources (Anonymous)

Workplace Culture

• Emotional Tax: How Black Women and Men Pay More at Work and How Leaders Can Take Action (Catalyst)

• 20 ways majority-white nonprofits can build authentic partnerships with organizations led by communities of color (Nonprofit AF)

• “Woke-Washing” Your Company Won’t Cut It (HBR)

• 7 Ways to Support Black Employees (SHRM)

• Career Lessons from Stefani Coverson: Changing the Culture (SHRM)

• Start A Conversation: Let’s Confront Workplace Racial Inequality (SHRM)

• Disrupting Inequity with Darnisa Amante-Jackson (Hello Monday/LinkedIn)

• Vocal Color in Public Radio (Chenjerai Kumanyika)

• The Bias of ‘Professionalism’ Standards (Stanford Social Innovation Review)

• Black Women Thrive Report: How to support Black women within your Organization (Every Level Leadership)

• Resisting a Rest: How Urgency Culture Policies our Work (Lydia Phillip)

• Sabbaticals and the Case for More Rest for Leaders of Color (The Chronicle of Philanthropy)

 Hiring & Leadership

• A Manifesto On Diversity In Public Media (Al Letson)

• Diversify Your Workplace. There Are No Excuses (Stephanie Foo)

• Diversity as a Second Job (Vann R. Newkirk II)

• Failure Is Not an Option: How Nonprofit Boards Can Support Leaders of Color (Nonprofit Quarterly)

• F is for Future: How to think about public media's next 50 years (Knight Foundation)

• It’s everyone’s job to influence hiring, retention and promotion (Samantha Ragland and Doris Truong)

• College Degree Requirements Hinder Black Workers' Earnings, Career Advancement (SHRM)

Change Management

• 8 Step Process for Leading Change (John Kotter)

• SMARTIE Goals and Worksheet (Management Center)

• Addressing Racial Equity With an Organizational Change Lens (Yaro Fong-Olivares)

• 8 best practices for changing your culture (Sharon Florentine)

• White supremacy culture in professional spaces is toxic — to dismantle it, we must first be willing to name it! (Ashley Lugo)

 Board Diversity

• 10 Steps to a More Diverse Board (National Council of Nonprofits)

• Accelerating Nonprofit Board Diversity (Nonprofit HR)

• Challenging Assumptions and Practices in Board Diversity (James Irvine Foundation)

• When and Why Diversity Improves Your Board's Performance (HBR)

• Radical transparency: Confronting nonprofit governance to truly eliminate discrimination and harassment (Shanaaz Gokool)

Ending Microaggressive Behaviors

• Racial Microaggessions in Everyday Life: Is Subtle Bias Harmless? (Derald Wing Sue Ph.D., Psychology Today)

• Micro-inequity? Small and Subtle Discrimination that Leads to Low Productivity and High Turnover (Jeanne Martinson, MA) 

• Color-Blind Racial Attitudes: Microaggressions in the Context of Racism and White Privilege (Jared F. Edwards, Ph.D.)

• Unmasking 'Racial Micro Aggressions' (Tori DeAngelis, American Psychological Association)

• How to Respond to Microaggressions (Hahna Yoon)

Accountability

• Anti-racism and White Accountability (The Counseling Center, Loyola University Maryland)

• Accountability: Whiteness, Individuals, Organizational and Community (Racial Equity Tools) 

• Building a Culture of Accountability (Piper Anderson, Stanford Social Innovation Review)

• Five Steps Toward Anti-Racism Accountability (Mavis Joy Manaloto, John Meredith, Dawn M. Simmons, Rosalind Bevan, Geena M. Forristall, Jai’anna Gonzales, and Arielle Greenspan, StageSource)

• How to Hold Your Company Accountable to Its Promise of Racial Justice (Rebecca Knight, Harvard Business Review)

• Accountability Statement (Robin DiAngelo, PhD)