The Baltimore County Bar Association’s Diversity and Inclusion Committee invites you to join “The Challenge”, a 21-week commitment to learn and educate willing participants regarding systemic inequalities in the legal system and generally. In March 2021, the Diversity and Inclusion Committee circulated articles and videos to all participants related to racism, social injustice, or bias on a weekly basis. Monthly meetings facilitated by the Association of Black Psychologists and licensed social workers were held for all Challenge participants to discuss and distill the past month’s educational materials. These monthly debriefings served as an opportunity to educate our members and answer questions in a safe environment.
While this challenge is now over, you can still view the accumulated content below. Be on the lookout for the next opportunity to participate in The Challenge!
Click HERE to view The Challenge Participants
Week 1: White Privilege with Dr. Robin DiAngelo
Week 2: White Privilege with Peggy McIntosh: Article and Video
Week 3: “Understanding My Privilege” by Sue Borrego
Week 4: “What is White Privilege Really?” by Cory Collins
Week 5: Systematic Inequality and American Democracy (Co-Author Danyelle Solomon )
Shelby County, Ala v. Holder, AG
Week 6: Block the Vote: Voter Suppression in 2020 – Article
The ongoing fight to overcome voter suppression - Video - 5:40
Week 7: Inside the Decades Long Republican Campaign to Suppress the Vote
Week 8: John Oliver, Last Week Tonight, on Voting [WARNING. This video contains strong language and images. Viewer Discretion is Advised]
Voter Suppression During the 2018 Midterm Elections
Week 9: Being Black in America: 'We Have A Place In This World Too' – Article
Being black in America – Video 6:03
Week 10: What does it mean to be Black in America? | - Video
Week 11: LL Cool J Raps About George Floyd and Black Lives Matter | NowThis
Uncomfortable conversations with a black man – Video 9:27
Week 12: Living While Black: How to deconstruct racism, one headline at a time
Living While Black and the criminalization of blackness
Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome. How Is It Different From PTSD?
Week:13 13th – by Ava DuVernay
Week 14: Mass Incarceration, Visualized (2:30 min)
New Yorker Podcast - Ten Years After "The New Jim Crow"
John Oliver exposes the high fees and low wages in prisons
Week 15: Private prisons in the U.S. make big profits (19:47 min)
Brittany Packnett Cunningham- impact on children
“Incarceration creates more mental health concerns for African-American men“
Week 16: A Prosecutor’s Vision for a Better Justice System /Adam Foss – Ted Talk (15:57 min)
New Yorker Podcast - What Would a World Without Prisons Be Like (21 mins)
The Sentencing Project: 30 Years of Fighting to End Mass Incarceration (6:35min)
Week 17: Cracking the code
How to be An Ally to the Black Lives Matter Movement Now and Moving Forward
Allyship (& Accomplice)- The What, Why, and How - article - by Michelle Kim
What is Performative Allyship?
Week 18: How To Be An Ally If You Are a Person with Privilege by Frances Kendall - article
What if White People Led the Charge to End Racism - Nita Mosby Tyler - video 10:44
CLIP: Jane Fonda On Allyship and Anti-Racism (Call & Response) - video 7:19
Week 19: The difference between non-racist and anti-racist - CBS news - video 6.34
When Black People Are in Pain, White People Just Join Book Groups by Tre Johnson
