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Black Lives Matter: Activities

Black Lives Matter is an ideological and political movement in a world where Black lives are systematically and intentionally targeted for demise.

Activities

Start the Conversation

Sometimes the hardest part is just getting started. This is especially true when it's those closest to us using language that is harmful to others. The Southern Poverty Law Center created the Speak Up! handbook to help learn how to interrupt the conversation and use your voice. 

Support Black-Owned
Businesses in Miami

Black Pages Miami - Created by the Miami-Dade Economic Advocacy Trust

A Guide to Black-Owned Businesses in Miami - Article from The Culture Crusaders with a comprehensive list of black-owned restaurants, retail, services, and creative companies in Miami 

Lesson Plans

Justice in June: A month long study guide

  • Follow the link to access lesson plans broken up to 10/25/45 minutes per day.  Over the course of the month, you will have spent time intentionally learning how to be an active ally of the black community. All the action items listed in the calendar have linked information below the weekly schedule (see sections Watch, Read, Listen, and Act).

The New Jim Crow: Reading Guide

  • Guide to accompany The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
Implicit Bias

Implicit bias includes the attitudes or stereotypes that affect our understanding, actions, and decisions in an unconscious manner.

Harvard Implicit Association Test (IAT) measures attitudes and beliefs that people may be unwilling or unable to report. The IAT may be especially interesting if it shows that you have an implicit attitude that you did not know about.

How to be Actively Anti-Racist
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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