Arts & Culture for Racial Justice

Read our statement on racial justice sent to our membership and community on 6/8/2020.

Below are resources to help you advance this work. This page will be updated regularly. If you have any suggestions or feedback, please email dei@philaculture.org

1. Arts & Culture/Nonprofit Specific 
    
2. Workforce 
    
3. Boards & Funding
    
4. Anti-Racism & Activism
    
5. Take Action
    
6. Learn More

Arts & Culture/Nonprofit Specific

• Anti-Racism Resources for the Arts and Nonprofits - Fractured Atlas - June 5, 2020
• “Have Nonprofit and philanthropy become the ‘white moderate’ that Dr. King warned us about?” - NonprofitAF, June 1, 2020
• “White Women Doing White Supremacy in Nonprofit Culture” - Tzedek Social Justice Fellowship, Aug 12, 2019
• Racial Equity & Social Justice Resources (For Allies, Orgs, & POC) - Artist Trust
• “How White People Conquered the Non-Profit Industry” - Medium, April 28, 2020
• Decolonizing The Music Room: A nonprofit supporting music educators
• A New Harmony: Equity, Access, Belonging -- A Workbook for GALA Choruses GALA Choruses, June 2020
• "Justice" - Arts Journal, June 3, 2020
• Beyond Elijah Rock: The Non-Idiomatic Choral Music of Black Composers - Marques L. A. Garrett, PhD
• "Capitalism, Race, and the Evolution of American Theater", Capacity Interactive, July 16, 2020
• “Examining Cultural Equity”, Arts Connect International, January 2018
• "Race to Lead Revisited: Obstacles and Opportunities in Addressing the Nonprofit Racial Leadership Gap", Building Movement Project 2020
• Arts & Culture Discussion Series, Metropolitan Area Planning Council (MAPC)
• “Responsible & Responsive: The Duty of the Performing Arts Sector in Our Current Context”, Artist Relief recorded on July 30, 2020 (1 hour)
• “Don’t perpetuate harm while parading it as diversity” Generocity, August 3, 2020
• "Reframing Governance III", Nonprofit Quarterly, July 15 2020
• "Does a Nonprofit Organization Have to Have a Moral Compass?" Nonprofit Quarterly, July 17, 2020
• "Anxious to Launch a Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Program at Your Nonprofit?" Nonprofit HR, July 13, 2020
• “Enough Already with the Statements of ‘Solidarity,’ Arts World” - Kaisha S. Johnson, Medium, June 5, 2020
• Racial Equity Tools - Arts & Culture (List of Resources & Curriculum)
• City of Seattle Office of Arts & Culture - Racial Equity (List of Resources)
• Until We Are All Free (Arts & Culture Anti-Racism Resources)
• Creative Minds Out Loud Podcast - Episode 103: Enhancing the Visibility of Professionals of Color (2020)
• “Broadway for Black Lives Matter” - Capacity Interactive, August 13, 2020
• “On Power and Participation” - AFTA & Monument Lab, August 4, 2020
• Anti-Racism Resources compiled by the Arts Council of Greater New Haven, including their Toolkit and Pledge
• “Ceding Power: On Reparations in the Arts” - The Ostracon, August 14, 2020
• “Can white arts leaders become anti-racist “accomplices”?”- D.C. Metro, August 16, 2020
• "What Should a Museum Look Like in 2020?" Vanity Fair, August 24, 2020
• "Ignorance of the Black theatrical canon is no excuse" D.C. Metro, August 19, 2020
• "Responding to Widespread Demands, Museums Are Acquiring More Works by Artists of Color. But How They Do So Matters More Than Ever" ArtNet News, September 2, 2020
• "Rally against racism in America’s art museums." - Anti-Racism Daily, August 25, 2020
• "Tell museums to replace stolen artifacts" - Anti-Racism Daily, September 4, 2020
• "The Last Water Fountain: The Struggle Against Systemic Racism in Classical Music" San Francisco Classical Voice, September 1, 2020
• "DEI Approach is No Longer Relevant: Operationalizing Racial Justice in Non-Profit Organizations" Medium, August 7, 2020 
• "Smithsonian Head Lonnie Bunch on Institutional Racism and the Duty of Curators" Art Market, September 2, 2020
• "Smithsonian’s Leader Says ‘Museums Have a Social Justice Role to Play’", New York TImes, July 2, 2020
• "BIPOC-Creatives Resource and Database" - This resource and database is for BIPOC creatives to not only share their professional info, it is also one step towards developing a powerful community. They ask that if you visit this page and reach out to someone on the list that you also read their Community Statement.
• "'Can I Make Sure That I'm Not The Only One?' Artist Helps Museum Diversify Collection" NPR, September 16, 2020
• "MASS Action Resources" , MASS: Museum As Site For Social Action
• "Woke Supremacy: A Critical Perspective on the American Theatre" HowlRound Theatre Commons, February 18, 2020
• "Anti-Black Discrimination in American Orchestras" League of American Orchestras, Summer 2020
• "We Need New Institutions, Not New Art", Hyperallergic, October 26, 2020
• "Public Art, Public Memory" Metropolitan Area Planning Council, series of webinars from September and October of 2020
• "Black Scholars Confront White Supremacy in Classical Music", The New Yorker, September 14, 2020
• "Black Gallerists Press Forward Despite a Market That Holds Them Back", The New York Times, June 21, 2020
• "The Next Act: Creating Anti-racist Theater" The Boston Globe, 2020 (1 hour recording)
• "At Theaters, Push for Racial Equity Leads to Resignations and Restructuring" The New York Times, August 19, 2020
• "Letter to the Opera Field from Black Administrators" Black Administrators of Opera, October 29, 2020
• "How community theaters can be more inclusive and accessible" OnStage Blog, November, 1, 2020
• "How Can I Have an Ethical Art Career?" KCET, October 28, 2020
• "Exclusion Is Oppression: From Pedagogy to Performance" Dance Magazine, November 11, 2020
• Arts and Culture Racial Justice Strategies In Action from Racial Equity Tools, 2020
• Arts & Equity Toolkit from Neighborhood Arts Network
• "Acknowledge whiteness in classical art", Anti-Racism Daily, December 13, 2020
• "Seattle theater leaders work toward anti-racism" The Seattle Times, December 19, 2020
• "Meet the experts who root out racism and exclusion in the arts" Art Newspaper, January 11, 2021
• "How to Responsibly Collect the Work of Black Artists" Art Market, February 17. 2021 
• "It’s Time to Shift the Power Inequities Among Arts Nonprofits" Hyperallergic, February 19, 2021
• "Reckoning with a Reckoning: How Cultural Institutions Can Advance Equity" Nonprofit Quarterly, February 23, 2021
• "Support musicians of color" Anti-Racism Daily, March 11, 2021
• American Alliance of Museum's DEIA Working Group Full Reoprt, 2018
• "Theatre Nonprofits and Social Justice: A New Way Forward" The Center for Effective Philanthropy, June 22, 2021

Workforce

• "4 things your black employees and coworkers wish you knew —and how you should offer allyship and support" - Business Insider, June 5, 2020
• “Your Black Colleagues May Look Like They’re Okay — Chances Are They’re Not” - Refinery 29, May 28, 2020
• “Maintaining Professionalism In The Age of Black Death Is….A Lot” - Shenequa Golding, Medium, May 28, 2020
• REIMAGINING SMALL BUSINESS: A town hall to listen, learn & commit to building equitable, anti-racist organizations - Fractured Atlas - Recording from June 10, 2020
• "Working While Black: Stories from black corporate America" - Fortune, June 16, 2020
• "Toward a Racially Just Workplace" - Harvard Business Review, November 2019
• "A Lesson in Leadership: An Interview with GEO CEO Marcus Walton" - The Bridgespan Group - June, 2020
• “Shine a Light on Hidden Biases”, Affinity, August 13, 2020 - Webinar recording (1 hour) and presentation
• Organizational Change Processes, Racial Equity Tools - This section provides information particularly for organizations that seek to transform their policies, procedures, practices, culture and relationships to be racially equitable and inclusive.
• IMAGINE 2020 Speaker Series:  “How to Be an Anti-Racist Organization: Part I”, Denver Arts & Venues, August 7, 2020 recording (1 hr 30 min)
• IMAGINE 2020 Speaker Series: "How to Be an Anti Racist Organization Part II" Denver Arts & Venues, Sept. 14, 2020 recording (1 hr 30 min)
• “Cultivating Fair Pay in the Workplace: Your Guide to Global Pay Equity”, Affirmity
• “How We Hire is Broken - Let's Fix It!” career.place, October 3, 2017
• “Moves Toward Equity: Perspectives from Arts Leaders of Color”, Arts Connect International, September 2019 
• Nonprofit HR's "DEI practice page"
• "Breaking the culture of microaggressions", career.place, August 5, 2020
• Beyond Diversity: How to Build a Truly Anti-Racist Organization Everyday Feminism
• Toolkit: Analyzing Departments on their Racial Equity - Artist Trust
• Anti-Racist Organizational Change: Resources & Tools for Nonprofits (PDF) - CommunityWise Resource Center (Canada; 2017)
• Resources from our March, 2020 Workforce Training: Creating a Diverse & Inclusive Workplace
• "Confronting White Supremacy in the Workplace" - Pollen
• "Is Your Organization Anti-Racist?" - Capacity Interactive, July 16, 2019
• "Is Your Company Actually Fighting Racism, or Just Talking About It?" Harvard Business Review, June 11, 2020
• "Three steps to turn diversity talk to diversity action" - career.place, June 10, 2020
• Tour of the common resume biases - career.place, June 24, 2020
• "You Can Hire Better: How To Empower Yourself to Create Equity at Work" - Ashley Rodriguez, July 27, 2019
• "How to Begin Talking About Race in the Workplace" Knowledge@Wharton, June 15, 2020
• "Leading Diversity: Why Listening and Learning Come Before Strategy" Knowledge@Wharton, July 28, 2020
• "How to Make a Less Racist, More Inclusive Job Listing" Huffington Post, August 20, 2020
• "The formula for COMPELLING diversity, equity, and inclusion goals" - career.place September 2, 2020
• "Workplace Diversity Goes Far Past Hiring. How Leaders Can Support Employees Of Color" - NPR, September 7, 2020
• "The 'glass cliff': How women and people of color are set up to fail in the workplace" Today, August 28, 2020
• "Crises as a Catalyst: A Call for Race Equity & Inclusive Leadership" ProInspire
• "You’re not serious about equity if you don’t post salaries" Nonprofit Technology Conference, November 19, 2019
• "The 5-Step Checklist for Organizations That Want To Contribute To Fair Pay" Affirmity, 2020
• "REALITIES: Talent Attraction & Diverse Recruitment Practices in Nonprofits" Webinar recording and slides, Nonprofit HR, August 25, 2020
• "REALITIES: Inclusive Workforce Planning & Diversity Practices in Nonprofits" Webinar recording and slides, Nonprofit HR, July 28, 2020
• "Navigating Race and New Leadership in a Time of Upheaval" Stanford Social Innovation Review, September 16, 2020
• "5 Key Strategies to Accelerate the Momentum of Your Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Program" Affirmity, 2020
• "How to Nurture Diversity Efforts Over the Long Haul" Associations Now, October, 2020
• "What so many get wrong about racism in the workplace" Fingerprint for Success, 2020
• "The Undeniable Value of Inclusive Leadership and Visible Equity", Affirmity, October 16, 2020
• "5 moves that actually increase diversity, equity and inclusion", Chief Learning Officer, August 27, 2020
• "Companies Need to Think Bigger Than Diversity Training" Harvard Business Review, October 20, 2020
• "The secret to optimizing candidate screening" career.place, November 4, 2020
• "Are You a Good Ally at Work? Ask Yourself These Questions to Find Out" The Muse, October 26, 2020
• "REALITIES: Employee Engagement & Belonging Practices in Nonprofits" Webinar recording, slides and bonus materials, Nonprofit HR, October 20, 2020
• REALITIES: Leadership & Culture in Nonprofits, Webinar recording, Nonprofit HR, Novemberber 17, 2020
• "Leading while Black: A Story of Double Consciousness, Decolonization & Healing" Nonprofit Quarterly, November 2, 2020
• "How to Be a Better Ally to Your Black Colleagues" Harvard Business Review, July 8, 2020
• "Practicing Resilience 2: Practical Steps for DEIA Plans" Mid-America Arts Alliance, November 13, 2020 (70 minutes)
• "Inclusion Tips for Candidate Interactions" Career.Place, December 2, 2020
• Berrett-Koehler's From Self to Systems: 3 Part Online Training Series featuring expert training on inclusive leadership, anti-racism and decolonization, gender identity at work, psychological safety, institutional bias, and building inclusive workplaces and communities.  
• "Pay Black Women" Anti-Racism Daily, January 8, 2021
• "3 Key Ways to Build a Culturally-Aware Climate in Your Organization" Affirmity, December 2020
• "7 Inclusion Strategies That Boost Employee Performance" Affirmity, January 2021

Boards & Funding

• Beyond Diversity National Board Training, artEquity
• "Philanthropy’s Imperative: How to Discuss White Supremacy with Staff, Boards, and Nonprofit Partners" Philanthropy Network, July 16, 2020
• "The Crisis of White Supremacy in America - What is Philanthropy's Role?" - Philanthropy Network Greater Philadelphia June 4, 2020
• The Case for Funding Black-Led Social Change - A Philanthropic Partnership for Black Communities & The Hill-Snowdon Foundation, 2017
• "Racial Equity in Philanthropy, Closing the Funding Gap" - The Bridgespan Group
• Community-led Philanthropy during Crisis: How Giving Circles of Color Can Inform Traditional Philanthropy - Philanthropy Network, recorded on June 11, 2020
• Philanthropy Needs A New Endgame: The Liberation of Black, Indigenous, and People of Color Communities In America Philanthropy Network, June 4, 2020
• How to Avoid Excuses That Prevent Grant Makers From Aiding Black-Led Organizations The Chronicle of Philanthropy, June 29, 2020
•  “How Charity Enables Injustice” - Anand Giridharadas, August 6, 2020
• “The Role of Foundations in Achieving Creative Justice” - Grantmakeers in the Arts, March 2019
• “Racial Equity in Arts Funding: Statement of Purpose and Recommendations for Action” - Grantmakers in the Arts, Published March 2015; Revised April 11, 2019
• "Beyond the Board Statement: How Can Boards Join the Movement for Racial Justice?" Part One & Part Two, Nonprofit Quarterly, June 25, 2020 & July 1, 2020
• "Guiding a Giving Response to Anti-Black Injustice" The Bridgespan Group, August 25, 2020
• "The Impact of Unconscious Bias in Philanthropy"  Brandywine Health Foundation, August 26, 2020
• "The Value of Lived Experience" BoardSource Blog, August 4, 2020
• "16 Deep-Pocketed Philanthropic Groups Will Give a Whopping $156 Million to Dozens of BIPOC Cultural Organizations in the US" ArtNet, September 24, 2020
• "Undoing the Red-Lining of Black Leadership in Philanthropy" Whiteness at Work; Episode 8, September 28, 2020
• "Who Owns Philanthropy? A Look through an Antiracist Lens"  Nonprofit Quarterly, October 8, 2020
• "YBCA Announces a $250k Investment in an Artist-Led Giving Circle", YBCA, October 22, 2020
• "Boards Are Broken, So Let’s Break and Remake Them" American Theatre, January 5, 2021
• "Creating a Culture of Change: A panel discussion on diversifying boards" Philanthropy Network, June 11, 2021

Anti-Racism & Activism

• "How to Be an Antiracist" Conversation with Ibram X. Kendi, July 20, 2020
• "It’s Not Enough to Be Non-Racist" - Medium, May 31, 2020
• Learn about white supremacy culture: DismantlingRacism.org
• Arts Administrators of Color Network's Accomplices Leadership Institute Webinar Recording on YouTube, Dec 9, 2019
• “Ally or Accomplice? The Language of Activism” - Teaching Tolerance (June 5, 2017)
• “A Detailed List of Anti-Racism Resources (book, movie recommendations, and more)” - Medium, June 1, 2020
• “The difference between being “not racist” and antiracist”, Ibram X. Kendi via TED June 17, 2020 (54mins)
• “Ally or co-conspirator?: What it means to act #insolidarity”, Move to End Violence, September 7, 2016
• The Struggle to Vote, Moonstone Art Center
• Action Plan Examples gathered by Racial Equity Tools, 2020 
• "Uproot workplace racism" Anti-Racism Daily, August 2, 2021

Take Action

• Join the Cultural Alliance DEI Affinity Group - help us to review and revise our own DEI Statement & Action Plan by emailing dei@philaculture.org
• Volunteer/get involved with Black-led activist groups like Black Lives Matter Philly
• 5 Ways to Show up for Racial Justice Today - KQED (May 29, 2020)
• 97 Things White People Can Do for Racial Justice - Medium (August 13, 2017)
• A list of resources for supporting the Black Lives Matter movement - It's Nice That (June 2020)
• No Going Back: A COVID-19 Cultural Strategy Activation Guide, from The Center for Cultural Power
• "5 Ways to be an Ally During COVID19" - Fakequity, May 8, 2020
• Sign up for GPCA Advocacy Alerts to receive information about pressing issues and to advocate for fair and equitable funding for the arts
• "13 Ways to Ignite Real Change in the Wake of George Floyd's Killing" - The Philadelphia Citizen, June 1, 2020
• Anti-Racism Daily – a rich e-newsletter: subscribe, check out their archives, or even consider their corporate plans
• “Support black-owned businesses in Philly and buy from these bookstores” - Philly Voice, June 3, 2020
• Learn with the Accomplices Leadership Institute.
• Look into participating in Virtual Learning Labs, The Winters Group, Inc
• "To white organizational leaders, silence is violence: Here’s what you should do now" - Generocity, June 1, 2020
• Three steps to creating an actionable response to Black Lives Matter - career.place, July 1, 2020
• "Five Elements of a Thriving Justice Ecosystem: Pursuing Deep Equity", Nonprofit Quarterly, April 13, 2017

Learn More 

• “Why Lead With Race?”, Government Alliance on Race & Equity
• National Museum of African American History and Culture’s “Talking About Race” web portal
• "Why I’m no longer talking to white people about race" - The Guardian, May 2017
• "Who Gets to Be Afraid in America?" - The Atlantic, May 12, 2020
• artEquity Suggested Resources from artEquity, 2020
• Philanthropy Network's DEI Resource Page
• “A Sociologist Examines the ‘White Fragility’ That Prevents White Americans from Confronting Racism” - The New Yorker, July 23, 2018
• White Fragility Resources from author Robin DiAngelo, PhD
• "A Timeline of Events That Led to the 2020 'Fed Up'-rising" - The Root, May, 30, 2020
• Resource Center for Confronting Racial Injustice from Conferences for Women
• Black Lives Matter, protests and related equity-centered news - Americans for the Arts, June 17, 2020
• "Robin DiAngelo and Resmaa Menakem In Conversation" - On Being - July 9, 2020
• Gallup Center on Black Voices: A 100-Year Commitment to Report the Black Experience in America
• Racial Equity Index - NEA
• “What exactly is a microaggression?”, Vox, February 16, 2015
• “The Danger of a Single Story”, Chimamanda Adichie via TED, July 2009
• Project Implicit, Harvard
• “The Urgency of Intersectionality”, Kimberle Crenshaw via TEDWomen, 2016 (20mins)
• “Microaggressions are a big deal: How to talk them out and when to walk away” NPR, June 9, 2020
• "Social Justice Series: How to Be an Ally + Antiracist" Comcast, September 3, 2020
• "It’s Time to Replace “Belonging” in the Diversity and Inclusion Conversation", Medium, September 10, 2020
• "3 Reasons Why ‘Anti-Bias’ May Solve More Than ‘Anti-Racism’" Forbes, September 18, 2020
• "Reckoning with Historical Racism: How Systemic Change Calls for a Deeper Look" Nonprofit Quarterly, September 17, 2020
• "Allies, Accomplices, and Saviors: Knowing the Difference to Maximize Impact" Berrett-Koehler Publishers, September 09, 2020
• "Understanding Racism, Privilege, and How to Effect Change" Notion
• "Some Do’s and Don’ts for White People Who Want to Discuss Racism at Work" Zora, June 1, 2020
• IMAGINE 2020 Speaker Series: "Equity, Diversity and Inclusion 101", (1hr, 55min) Denver Arts & Venues, October 11, 2019
• "Confronting Prejudice: How to Protect Yourself and Help Others" Pepperdine | Online Programs, July 09, 2019 
• "Practicing Resilience Workshop" Mid-America Arts Alliance, July 16, 2020 (80 minutes)
• Race Forward catalyzes movement building for racial justice. In partnership with communities, organizations, and sectors, we build strategies to advance racial justice in our policies, institutions, and culture.
• Language Bank: Diversity, Equity and Inclusion terms AFTA uses in their work