DEIA Resources
Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility
We, the Board of Directors at DOVIA Colorado, stand with people of color and the Black Lives Matter movement. We believe there is enormous opportunity to dismantle systems of exclusion and oppression, and build stronger, smarter, safer communities for consideration. What are we missing? Please tell us by sending us an email: doviacolorado@gmail.com.
Open Forum DEIA Sessions-Check the Education Calendar to see availability and register.
“That was one of the most helpful conversations I've experienced, and I'm so grateful for all the insights and wisdom we covered!! I've been attending so many webinars on lots of different topics, and this was hands-down the best one I've been to in months!”
--Stephanie Johnson-Wall, Delores Project
General Information:
City and County of Denver Human Rights and Community Partnerships A Beginning: Choose how much time you have each day to become more informed as step one to becoming an active ally to the black community.
Articles:
Books:
Category - Race, Privilege & Bias:
How to Be an Anti-Racist by Ibram X. Kendi
So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo and Michael Eric Dyson
Between the World and Me by Ta Nehisi Coates
Me and White Supremacy by Layla F. Saad
Faith Based Anti-Racism:
The Color of Compromise by Jamar Tisby
Be the Bridge by Latasha Morrison
Policing and Mass Incarceration
Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
School and Work:
Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? By Beverly Daniel Tatum
I’m Still Here by Austin Channing Brown
Environment and Housing:
The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein
Evicted by Matthew Desmond
And More:
Letter from the Birmingham Jail by Martin Luther King Jr.
White People Really Love Salad by Ph.D. Nita Mosby Tyler
Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
Podcasts:
1619
The Diversity Gap
Code Switch (NPR)
Truth’s Table
Reclaiming My Theology
Pod Save the People
Things to Watch:
Netflix:
13th
Teach Us All
When They See Us
Flint Town
Time: The Kalief Browder Story
Let It Fall: Los Angeles 1982-1992
Amazon Prime:
I Am Not Your Negro
Selma
Just Mercy
The Color of Compromise
Hulu:
If Beale Street Could Talk
The Hate U Give