Diversity & Inclusion Resource Guide: Race

From passionate pleas for reform to poetic turns of phrase, these talks take an honest look at everyday realities of Black Americans and illuminate the way forward.

Conexión Américas was founded in 2002 to address the pressing challenges, and opportunities, created by demographic changes in Middle Tennessee as an increasing number of Latino families moved to our state.

Gideon’s Army is a community-based, grassroots organization that works to design programs, based on contemporary interpretations of the theory of restorative justice. As locally based organization with a long-term goal for state-wide expansion, Gideon’s Army is currently the only local organization in Nashville that focuses solely on dismantling the school-to-prison pipeline through social activism by children in the prison pipeline, their families, and their community.

Recognizing that rapid growth in Nashville has not benefited all people, Stand Up Nashville works to transform policies and make sure that the people of Nashville are at the center of governmental and big business decisions.

As a dynamic community, Nashville’s Kurdish community faces many challenges. The Tennessee Kurdish Community Council (TKCC) was formed to respond to these challenges, especially those specific to our community.

An audio series from The New York Times observing the 400th anniversary of the beginning of American slavery.

Featuring key voices from the last few decades of anti-racist activism, About Race with Reni Eddo-Lodge (author of the bestseller Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race) looks at the recent history that lead to the politics of today.

Code Switch is a race and culture outlet and a weekly podcast from American public radio network NPR.

A weekly-published podcast community centering Black people, Indigenous people, and People of Color in liberatory living and learning practices.

Intersectionality Matters!, hosted by Kimberlé Crenshaw, is an idea travelogue that brings the concept of intersectionality to life by highlighting the work of leading activists, artists, and scholars, exploring the hidden dimensions of some of today’s most pressing issues, and helping listeners understand politics, the law, social movements, and even their own lives in deeper, more nuanced ways.

Momentum: A Race Forward Podcast features movement voices, stories, and strategies for racial justice. Co-hosts Chevon and Hiba give their unique takes on race and pop culture, and uplift narratives of hope, struggle, and joy, as we continue to build the momentum needed to advance racial justice in our policies, institutions, and culture.

Where did the notion of “whiteness” come from? What does it mean? What is whiteness for? Scene on Radio host and producer John Biewen took a deep dive into these questions, along with an array of leading scholars and regular guest Dr. Chenjerai Kumanyika, in this fourteen-part documentary series, released between February and August 2017.