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The Power of Memory Work: Learning from the Germans

Memory work helps societies confront past injustices. Learn how Germany’s approach can inspire reflection, accountability, and growth in our own communities.

What Questions Can I Ask To Ensure My Organization is Dismantling Its Systemic Racism?

Addressing systemic racism starts with questions. Here are practical prompts for evaluating your organization’s policies, culture, and accountability.

Learning Multicultural Competencies Through DEIB Edutainment

The concept of edutainment, entertainment with an educational aspect, is not new. I am old enough to remember screaming in delight when “Miss Barbara” Plummer…

Getting To We Books for 2025

These books for 2025 provide ideas and inspiration to help transform division into connection in everyday life and across communities.

Getting To We Insights

Me To We conversations for the world yet to be.

6 Must Read Books for Understanding Racial Inequities

These six books offer insight into racial inequities in education, healthcare, housing, wealth, voting, and justice, helping readers think critically and engage meaningfully.

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The Power of Memory Work: Learning from the Germans

Memory work helps societies confront past injustices. Learn how Germany’s approach can inspire reflection, accountability, and growth in our own communities.

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Let’s Keep Talking About Racism: 10 Tips for How to Do That

Talking about racism is challenging, yet essential. These ten tips provide guidance for continuing conversations in productive, meaningful ways.

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Racism’s Groundhog Day

History repeats itself when it comes to racial inequity. This reflection explores the cycles of injustice and how we can break patterns through awareness and…

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Not a Racist? Then Let’s Be Better Antiracist

Being anti-racist is more than intention. Learn how to recognize behaviors, stay accountable, and act with empathy and equity in everyday life.

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Your Micro Moments

Just-in-time responses to your frequently-asked questions.

Can’t We Just Agree to Disagree?

Differences in opinion are natural, but stopping at disagreement can prevent growth. Here’s how to engage respectfully while learning from others.

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What Questions Can I Ask To Ensure My Organization is Dismantling Its Systemic Racism?

Addressing systemic racism starts with questions. Here are practical prompts for evaluating your organization’s policies, culture, and accountability.

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How is Calling the Coronavirus the China Virus Racist?

Words matter. Using labels tied to origin fuels xenophobia and harms communities. Here’s why the language we choose can create inclusion or exclusion.

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Is America a Racist Country?

America’s ideals may aspire to equality, but systemic racism persists. This piece examines the gap between values and lived experiences and what it means to…

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Can Blacks be Racist?

Racism is systemic, not limited to one group. Dr. Plummer explores power, privilege, and the ways anyone can uphold or challenge inequity.

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What does Equity mean in Diversity and Inclusion?

DEI efforts often include “equity” alongside diversity and inclusion. This piece explains why equity is essential and how it shapes meaningful change.

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Words Create Worlds

Me to We storytelling that amplify voices that create cultures of belonging and strengthen human connectivity.

Getting To We Books for 2025

These books for 2025 provide ideas and inspiration to help transform division into connection in everyday life and across communities.

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Getting To We Books for 2024

Here are five books that inspire turning “us and them” into “we,” offering insights for how we live, work, serve, and relate to others.

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Getting To We Books for 2023

Summer reading can engage and inspire. These four books provide fresh perspectives, challenge assumptions, and encourage turning “us and them” into “we.”

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Getting To We Books for 2022

These eight books inspire us to turn “us and them” into “we.” They offer insight into inequity, history, and practical ways to create understanding.

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Race, Identity & the Writer’s Craft

Learning Multicultural Competencies Through DEIB Edutainment

The concept of edutainment, entertainment with an educational aspect, is not new. I am old enough to remember screaming in delight when “Miss Barbara” Plummer…

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This Makes Me Feel Uncomfortable

And Other Distressing Emotions Associated with Learning about Race and Racial Identity Behind every discomfort, there’s learning… if we stay with the discomfort long enough….

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Building Social Trust Between Black and White Women

Do We Need a Form of Couples Therapy to Achieve Racial Equity? As a young psychologist facilitating couples therapy, I quickly learned that it was…

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Why Socializing Across Racial Lines Matters

My friends cross racial lines and so parties I host are often racially mixed gatherings. The tone of these parties are not radically different from…

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Can We Be Friends? White Women and Women of Color in Conversation About Race

I am still a bit exasperated with Ellie McGinty. Ellie is a fictional character in The Daughters of Erietown, Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Connie Schultz’s novel…

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To My White Friends Who Know Me

I have a lot of White friends. Obviously, they have always known that I am Black. The amount of melanin in my skin hasn’t changed….

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