Roundtable #9, “Black Tax in America”

Let’s discuss ‘Black tax,’ a phenomenon that reveals the hidden costs of being Black in America. Allies, please be prepared to provide an update on your mini-action plans: progress, barriers, and insights.

Roundtable #8, “Intersectionality”

The term “intersectionality” was coined in 1989 by professor Kimberle Crenshaw to describe how race, class, gender, and other individual characteristics “intersect” with each other. Let’s discuss the importance of understanding intersectionality when considering the lived experiences of Black women in America. Additionally, please be prepared to provide an update on your ally mini-action plans: progress, barriers, and insights.

Roundtable #7, "Antiracist & Anti-Racism”



We spent the last 6 roundtables gaining a better understanding of white supremacy and its impact on systemic/structural racism and anti-Blackness in America. Let’s dig deeper by gaining a better understanding of anti-racism and what it means to be antiracist. Let’s explore: antiracist vs. anti-racism. What does anti-racism look like on the individual/interpersonal/structural level? How does the adoption of an antiracist mindset specifically advance your advocacy goals? If you read the book recommendation (“How to be an Antiracist” by Ibram X. Kendi), what impacted you the most? Allies, please be prepared to provide an update on your mini-action plans: progress, barriers, and insights.

Roundtable #6, “Ally Action Plans, Part Two”

For the final session of this Roundtable series, allies will conclude mini-action plan presentations. What are your ally goals as it pertains to challenging anti-blackness and disrupting systemic racism? Through the leveraging of your resources and your access, how will you show up in this fight for change? Group members, how can we support each other and hold each other accountable through this process? Let's reflect: How has this Roundtable contributed to your evolution and/or understanding of anti-blackness, white supremacy, systemic racism, and allyship?

Roundtable #5, “Ally Action Plans, Part One”

For this session, allies will begin presenting their individual mini-action plans to the group. What are your ally goals as it pertains to challenging anti-blackness and disrupting systemic racism? Through the leveraging of your resources and your access, how will you show up in this fight for change? Group members, how can we support each other and hold each other accountable through this process?

Roundtable #4, “Fear, Favor, Freedom”

This session concludes our review of the Scene on Radio podcast series "Seeing White".  We will be touching on key topics from Part 11- Part 14.

Roundtable #3, “Racialized Science, Residential Terror, Caste System”

This session, we will be touching on key topics from the Scene on Radio podcast (“Seeing White”, Part 8- Part 10).

Roundtable #2, “Brown Eyes, Promises, Clean Hands”

For this session, we will be touching on key topics from the Scene on Radio podcast (“Seeing White”, Part 4- Part 7).

Roundtable #1, “Seeing White”

Let's dig into whiteness and how it influences how we see the world and those around us. What does it mean to be anti-racist? How does understanding Blackness as it relates to whiteness give context to individual anti-racist goals? Let’s dig into current events: What are strategies for incorporating mindful activism into the anti-racist agenda? For this session, we will be touching on key topics from the Scene on Radio podcast (“Seeing White”, Part 1- Part 3).