Meet the 2021 Creative Reflection Contest Winners
Learning and Unlearning
Here you will find the 2021 Black History Month Creative Reflection Contest Winners who shared their thoughts of what Black History means through visual art and creative writing.
The Skin We’re In with Desmond Cole
Navigating, Challenging, & Confronting Anti-Black Racism with Dr. Christopher Taylor
Black History Month Paint Night with SSU Student Leader
Recognizing and Celebrating Diversity with Sheridan Black Students Association
Live Cooking Class with @ReggaeKitchen
Hero by Frances-Anne Solomon Screening & Q&A
Historian Voices Screening with Akil McKenzie
So You Want to Talk about Race Talk with Ijeoma Oluo
BLACKS Career Conversations
WHITE FRAGILITY: WHY IT’S SO HARD FOR WHITE PEOPLE TO TALK ABOUT RACISM
In this in-depth exploration, DiAngelo examines how white fragility develops, how it protects racial inequality, and what we can do to engage more constructively, and “allows us to understand racism as a practice not restricted to ‘bad people’. By Robin DiAngelo.
Available through the Sheridan Library
SO YOU WANT TO TALK ABOUT RACE
Ijeoma Oluo guides readers of all races through subjects ranging from intersectionality and affirmative action to "model minorities" in an attempt to make the seemingly impossible possible: honest conversations about race and racism, and how they infect almost every aspect of American life. By Ijeoma Oluo.
Available through the Sheridan Library
HOW TO BE AN ANTI-RACIST
Kendi takes readers through a widening circle of antiracist ideas—from the most basic concepts to visionary possibilites—that will help readers see all forms of racism clearly, understand their posionous consequences, and work to oppose them in our systems and in ourselves. By Ibram X. Kendi.
Available through the Sheridan Library
BLACK FATIGUE
Black people, young and old, are fatigued, says award-winning diversity and inclusion leader Mary-Frances Winters. It is physically, mentally, and emotionally draining to continue to experience inequities and even atrocities, day after day, when justice is a God-given and legislated right. And it is exhausting to have to constantly explain this to white people, even--and especially--well-meaning white people, who fall prey to white fragility and too often are unwittingly complicit in upholding the very systems they say they want dismantled. By Mary-Francis Winters. By Mary-Frances Winters.
Available through the Sheridan Library
UNTIL WE ARE FREE
The killing of Trayvon Martin in 2012 by a white assailant inspired the Black Lives Matter movement, which quickly spread outside the borders of the United States. The movement's message found fertile ground in Canada, where Black activists speak of generations of injustice and continue the work of the Black liberators who have come before them. Until We Are Free contains some of the very best writing on the hottest issues facing the Black community in Canada. It describes the latest developments in Canadian Black activism, organizing efforts through the use of social media, Black-Indigenous alliances, and more.'Until We Are Free busts myths of Canadian politeness and niceness, myths that prevent Canadians from properly fulfilling its dream of multiculturalism and from challenging systemic racism, including the everyday assaults on black and brown bodies. By Rodney Diverlus, Sandy Hudson, and Syrus Marcus Ware.
Available through Sheridan Library
THE SKIN WE’RE IN
Puncturing the bubble of Canadian smugness and naive assumptions of a post-racial nation, Cole chronicles just one year—2017—in the struggle against racism in this country. It was a year that saw calls for tighter borders when Black refugees braved frigid temperatures to cross into Manitoba from the States, Indigenous land and water protectors resisting the celebration of Canada’s 150th birthday, police across the country rallying around an officer accused of murder, and more. Month-by-month, Cole creates a comprehensive picture of entrenched, systemic inequality. By Desmond Cole.
Available at all book stores.
1. 13th: In this thought-provoking documentary, scholars, activists and politicians analyze the criminalization of African Americans and the U.S. prison boom. Available on Netflix.
2. Stay Woke: The Black Lives Matter Movement: A documentary film starring Jesse Williams about the Black Lives Matter movement, and the events that led to the uprising of the movement. Available on Amazon Prime Video and YouTube.
3. Fruitvale Station: Fruitvale Station is based on the events leading to the death of Oscar Grant, a young man who was killed in 2009 at the Fruitvale district station of the Bay Area Rapid Transit system in Oakland. Available on Amazon Prime Video.
4. I Am Not Your Negro: This 2016 documentary is based on James Baldwin’s unfinished manuscript Remember This House. It’s a journey into black history that connects the past of the Civil Rights movement to the present of #BlackLivesMatter. Available on YouTube and Google Play Movies & TV.
5. Selma: Selma is a historical drama that is based on the 1965 Selma to Montgomery voting rights marches led by James Bevel, Hosea Williams, Martin Luther King Jr., and John Lewis. Available on YouTube and Google Play Movies & TV.
Listen to Different Perspectives
This podcast, by The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, expands the conversation on critical civil and human rights challenges of our day: census, justice reform, policing, education, fighting hate & bias, judicial nominations, fair courts, voting rights, media & tech, economic security, immigration, and human rights.
Good Ancestor Podcast
An interview series with change-makers and culture-shapers exploring what it means to be a good ancestor. Hosted by globally respected speaker, anti-racism educator, and New York Times bestselling author of Me and White Supremacy, Layla F. Saad.