WLAM Presents: The 21-Day Racial Equity Habit Building Challenge©

Join us for our Wrap-up Panel on Monday, February 28th – Register for the Zoom link below.

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The 21-Day Racial Equity Habit-Building Challenge was conceived by the diversity speaker and educator, Dr. Eddie Moore, Jr., as an introductory educational tool to promote a deeper understanding of race, power, privilege, supremacy and oppression. The goal of the challenge is to raise your level of awareness, compassion, and engagement in your journey to understanding and promoting racial equity, no matter your station in life.

In recognition of Black History Month, starting February 1, 2022, you will be challenged to engage in one daily, intentional act on the journey to racial equity that exposes different perspectives on Black history, identify and culture. Those tasks range from reading an article, listening to a short podcast, or viewing videos. The challenge is voluntary, is intended to be educational and give you a deeper understanding of the complexities of racial equity. This challenge is what you make of it—you can challenge yourself for one day or 21 days. If you feel encourage, you can do more than one challenge a day.

Educate, encourage and inspire. Information is power, and we hope you use these new habits and power of knowledge, and passionately engage with the community. We encourage you to share and encourage with your family, friends and workplace.

To further encourage deeper community connections and reflection, engage–comment on the challenge on our social media, start a conversation with another challenger or spread the awareness.

Find the challenges below. We will be following the 21-day educational tool organized by the ABA. Visit our Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram or Youtube channel to learn more. Each day’s challenge will be posted daily.

Are you ready to challenge yourself?

ABA Syllabus

Day 1	Opening Listen to Youth Poet Laureate Amanda Gorman’s poem, given at the 2021 Presidential Inauguration, The Hill We Climb, PBS.org (January 20, 2021). [Submitted by D&I Advisory Council 21-Day Challenge Committee] Nikole Hannah-Jones, America Wasn’t a Democracy, Until Black Americans Made It One, The New York Times (August 14, 2019). [Submitted by D&I Advisory Council 21-Day Challenge Committee]
Day 2	Black History is US History, Part I Eddie S. Glaude, Jr., How James Baldwin Told the Truth About Racism in America, Time Magazine (June 25, 2020). [Submitted by Franchising Forum] Isabel Wilkerson, The Great Migration and the Power of a Single Decision, TED Talks (2017). [Submitted by the D&I Advisory Council 21-Day Challenge Committee]
Day 3	Black History is US History, Part II Austin Curtis, Black Panthers, White Lies, TEDx Ohio State University (Apr. 6, 2016) (13 mins). [Submitted by the Section of Public Contract Law] Nora McGreevy,Lawsuit Seeks Reparations for Victims of 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, Smithsonian Magazine (September 3, 2020). [Submitted by the Section of Tort Trial and Insurance Practice (TIPS)]
Day 4	Changing the Educational Landscape toward Equity, Part I Kids Explain Black History Month, Global Citizen (March 6, 2017). [Submitted by D&I Advisory Council 21-Day Challenge Committee] Nicole Scialabba, How Implicit Bias Impacts Our Children in Education (October 2, 2017). [Submitted by the Section of Litigation]
Day 5	Changing the Educational Landscape toward Racial Equity, Part II; Equity in Child Welfare The Problem We All Live With, Part I, This American Life (podcast) (July 31, 2015). (30 mins) [Submitted by D&I Advisory Council 21-Day Challenge Committee] Vivek Sankaran, With Child Welfare, Racism is Hiding in the Discretion, The Imprint (June 21, 2020). [Submitted by the Section of Litigation]
Day 6	Racial Equity in Law School Education Teri A. McMurty-Chubb, The Practical Implications of Unexamined Assumptions: Disrupting Flawed Legal Arguments to Advance the Cause of Justice, Social Science Research Network, (July 27, 2019). Or, if you prefer watching/listening, view the first 20 minutes of the same author describing the material in:Webinar Recording of “Teaching Strategies and Assessments to Interrupt Implicit and Explicit Bias” [Submitted by the Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar] Areeba Jabril, McKayla Stokes, and Mariah Young, Law Students take to Twitter to Demand Racial Equity, ABAforLawStudents (July 1, 2020). [Submitted by the Law Students Division]
Day 7	Young Lawyers Advancing Racial Equity and Implicit Bias Learning Melissa Little, Implicit Bias: Be an Advocate for Change, TYL (May 2018). [Submitted by the Young Lawyers Division] Take one or more short, visual tests from Harvard’s Implicit Association Test to learn more about how implicit associations work. Please focus on Race, Race-Weapons, or Skin Tone Implicit Association Test (IAT) [Submitted by D&I Advisory Council 21-Day Challenge Committee]
Day 8	Building Racial Equity within Legal Workplaces, Part I Better Practices: A Roundtable Discussion on Advancing Diversity and Inclusion in the Legal Profession (watch from 0:00-21:11) (21 mins) [Submitted by the Section of Real Property, Trusts, and Estates] Tsedale M. Melaku, Why Women and People of Color Still Hear ‘You Don’t Look Like a Lawyer’, Harvard Business Review (August 7, 2019). [Submitted by D&I Advisory Council 21-Day Challenge Committee] J. Shontavia Johnson, Tonya M. Evans, and Yolanda M. King, Diversifying Intellectual Property Law: Why Women of Color Remain “Invisible” and How to Provide More Seats at the Table, ABA-IPL Landslide® Magazine (April 2018). [Submitted by the Section of Intellectual Property Law]
Day 9	Building Racial Equity within Legal Workplaces, Part II Danielle Cadet, Your Black Colleagues May Look Like They Are Okay – Chances Are They Are Not, Refinery29 (May 2020). [Submitted by the Section of Labor and Employment Law] Arin N. Reeves, Written in Black & White: Exploring Confirmation Bias in Racialized Perceptions of Writing Skills, Nextions (2014). [Submitted by D&I Advisory Council 21-Day Challenge Committee] Tracey J. Coates, Eva N. Juncker, & Geoffrey Witherspoon,Law Firm Origination Policies: Climbing the Mountain to Equity, Law Practice Today (June 15, 2020). [Submitted by the Law Practice Division]
Day 10	Economic Inequity is the Legacy of Racial Inequality Karma Allen, More than 50% of homeless families are black, government report finds, ABCNews (Jan. 22, 2020). [Submitted by D&I Advisory Council 21-Day Challenge Committee] Scott Winship, Richard V. Reeves, and Katherine Guyot, The Inheritance of Black Poverty: It’s All About the Men, Brookings Institute (March 22, 2018). [Submitted by D&I Advisory Council 21-Day Challenge Committee]
Day 11	Recognizing Racial Equity as a Matter of Basic Survival Felicia Isaac, Climate Change Is Hurting Expectant Black Mothers, Natural Resources and Environment Magazine (January 15, 2021). [Submitted by Section of Environment, Energy, and Resources] Nina Martin and Renee Montagne, Nothing Protects Black Women from Dying in Pregnancy and Childbirth: Not education. Not income. Not even being an expert on racial disparities in health care, ProPublica (December 7, 2017). [Submitted by D&I Advisory Council 21-Day Challenge Committee] Leila Fadel, The Separate and Unequal Health System Highlighted By COVID-19, NPR (January 21, 2021). [Submitted by D&I Advisory Council 21-Day Challenge Committee] Ibram X. Kendi, Who Gets to Be Afraid in America?, The Atlantic (May 12, 2020). [Submitted by D&I Advisory Council 21-Day Challenge Committee]
Day 12	The Moral and Ethical Imperative for Business and Law to Advance Equity Banks, Kira Hudson & Richard Harvey, Is Your Company Actually Fighting Racism, or Just Talking About It?, Harvard Business Review (Jun. 11, 2020). [Submitted by the Section of Public Contract Law] Suhuyini Abudulai, Winda Chan, Jasmine D. Smith, Simi Solebo, Anti-Racist Speech and Action: Where Does the Legal Profession and Model Rule 8.4(g) Go from Here?, Business Law Today (Oct. 8, 2020). [Submitted by the Business Law Section] David Douglass, The Ethical Obligation to Promote Diversity ~ Future Now Conference The Illinois Supreme Court Commission on Professionalism (September 2019). (16 mins) [Submitted by D&I Advisory Council 21-Day Challenge Committee]
Day 13	Mass Incarceration is America’s Shame and Black America’s Burden Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow: How the war on drugs gave birth to a permanent American Undercaste, The Nation, March 9, 2010. [Submitted by D&I Advisory Council 21-Day Challenge Committee] Andrea Dennis, The Music of Mass Incarceration (December 1, 2020). [Submitted by the Section of Intellectual Property Law]
Day 14	Ending Police Brutality that Disproportionately Impacts Black Americans Megan Ming Francis, Let’s get to the root of racial injustice, TEDTalks, March 21, 2016. (19 mins). [Submitted by D&I Advisory Council 21-Day Challenge Committee] Juan Thomas, Reimagining Policing, Human Rights Magazine (Jan. 12, 2021). [Submitted by Section of Civil Rights and Social Justice]
Day 15	Black to the Future Wilson Adam Schooley, Seeking Sankofa: Any Hope for a ‘Post-Racial’ Future Resides in Facing Our Racial Reality, Human Rights Magazine (May 16, 2019). [Submitted by Section of Civil Rights and Social Justice]
Day 16	Ending Courtroom Bias Hon. Bernice B. Donald (U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, Judges on Race: Reducing Implicit Bias In Courtrooms, Law360 (December 6, 2020). [Submitted by the Judicial Division] Hidden Injustice: Bias on the Bench (view the 3rd video down) (12 mins). [Submitted by the Judicial Division]
Day 17	How Legislation and Local Action Can Advance Racial Justice Elí Salomón Contreras, How One Voice Changed Florida’s Political Calculus: An Interview with Desmond Meade, TYL (August 13, 2019). [Submitted by the Young Lawyers Division] Monumental Conversations, CNN, (July 9, 2020). (26 mins) [Submitted by the Section of State and Local Government]
Day 18	Intersectionality: Is the Legal Profession Hostile to Black Women? Cynthia L. Cooper, Report on Women of Color Lawyers Lands During National Reckoning with Race (July 29, 2020). [Submitted by the Commission on Women in the Profession]
Day 19	Intersectionality: Black Immigrant Experiences Jeremy Raff, Why Black Undocumented Immigrants Are at Greater Risk for Deportation, The Atlantic (December 30, 2017). [Submitted by Commission on Immigration]
Day 20	Dismantling White Supremacy Liz Mineo, How Textbooks Taught White Supremacy, Harvard Gazette (September 4, 2020). [Submitted by Franchising Forum] Black Lives Matter at the United Nations (20 mins). [Submitted by the Section of International Law]
Day 21	Restorative Justice Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Case for Reparations, (The Atlantic, May 21, 2014). [Submitted by D&I Advisory Council 21-Day Challenge Committee] Alice Walker, The World Rising (2017). [Submitted by D&I Advisory Council 21-Day Challenge Committee]
Close	What Habits Did You Learn? Wrap-up Panel – Monday, February 28th

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