Resources

When Hysteria and Satire Meet
Leonard Pitts Jr. - Miami Herald
http://www.commondreams.org/archive
/2008/07/17/10432/

Rev. Jackson's Obama Trauma
Clarence Page - Chicago Tribune
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/
columnists/chi-oped0713pagejul13,0,805062.column

That E-Mail Your Friend Sent You is (likely) False
Fact Check.org.
http://www.factcheck.org/specialreports/that_
chain_e-mail_your_friend_sent_to.html

Happy Birthday Nelson Mandela
Blog - All Men are Created Equal
http://www.wethepeoplepolitics.com/dedicated-
to-the-proposition-that-all-men-are-created-equal/

Hate Groups Busy After Obama Victory
Palm Beach Post
http://www.palmbeachpost.com/politics/content/nation/
epaper/2008/06/23/a4a_hate_0623.html

Dobson vs. Obama
Peter Wehner - Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content
/article/2008/06/27/AR2008062702490.html

Obama Dismisses Dobson Criticism
MSNBC
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25343812?GT1=43001

Why Whites Can't "Get Over" Color
Diversity Inc.
http://www.diversityinc.com/public/3672.cfm

Some Answers to Your Questions
Blog - Bishop TD Jakes
http://tdjenterprises.com/blog/?p=45

Congratulations Senator Obama
Blog - Bishop TD Jakes
http://tdjenterprises.com/blog/?p=44

Slavery's Shadow
Grand Rapids Press
http://www.mlive.com/grandrapids/stories/index.ssf?
/base/news-2/1214028924204220.xml&coll=6

Knowledge and Talent Must be Michigan's Calling Cards
Grand Rapids Press
http://www.mlive.com/grandrapids/stories/index.ssf?
/base/news-0/1214028937204220.xml&coll=6

NASCAR's Racist Culture Under Fire
Roanoake Times
http://www.roanoke.com/sports/racing/wb/165753

Adoption Study Tackles Race
Chicago Tribune
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/
chi-transracial_27may27,0,5884640.story?track=rss

The Rage to Engage
Time/CNN
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1731893,00.html

Raw Racism on the ground gives Obama volunteers pause
Washington Post - Kevin Merida
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/12/AR
2008051203014.html?referrer=emailarticle

Michigan's Future
Great site containing reports that move the state forward
http://www.michiganfuture.org/

Beyond Obama Unity Stops
Wall Street Journal
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120977670689464343.html?
mod=googlenews_wsj

Talk About Race Must be Two Ways
Clarence Page
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/chi-oped0409pageapr09,1,5414453.column

Stuff White People Like
Blog
http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.wordpress.com/

Detroit Mayor - You Should be Ashamed
Leonard Pitts Jr.
http://www.miamiherald.com/living/columnists/
leonard_pitts/story/483600.html

The Human Cost of Racism
Carmen VanKerckhove
http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/04/03/
what_is_the_human_cost_of_raci/

The Promised Land of Equality
Leonard Pitts Jr.
http://www.miamiherald.com/851/story/479474.html

King's Dream Deferred - One More Victim of the Subprime Crisis
Michelle Singleterry - Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/09/AR2008020900044.html?referrer=emailarticle

Election Time - Reflection Time
Clarence Page
http://www.chicagotribune.com/ news/columnists/chi-oped0305pagemar05,1,1744425.column

There's Racism but not in Public
Guardian News and Media
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/mar/
07/southafrica.race

Report on Black Women
Associated Press
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/nation/
20080304-2101-blackwomen.html

Aparteid Dead but Racism Endures
Associated Press
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gyirk2EZOZCJ
SdGI45WRuFN1TfZQD8V476SG0

God's Fabric is More Colorful
Holland Sentinel
http://hollandsentinel.com/stories/022008/
local_20080220001.shtml

A Work in Progress (Prop 2 Editorial)
Grand Rapids Press
http://www.mlive.com/grandrapids/stories/
index.ssf?/base/news-2/1203750934310610.xml&coll=6

GVSU Manager Cuts Through Red Tape
Grand Rapids Press
http://www.mlive.com/business/grpress/index.ssf?
/base/business-5/1203750910310610.xml&coll=6

Most Diversity Training Ineffective - Study Finds
Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/2008/01/19/ST2008011901990.html

Students Rally for Calvin College Prof
The Grand Rapids Press
http://www.mlive.com/grandrapids/stories/
index.ssf?/base/news-40/1201186039240530.xml&coll=6

Race Hides Campaigns Bigger Issues
Clarence Page - Chicago Tribune
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/n/content/article/2008/01/19/AR2008011901899.html?
sid=ST2008011901990&sub=A
columnists/chi-oped0120pagejan20,1,4501523.column

Why Many Blacks Vote Democrat
Leonard Pitts Jr. - Miami Herald
http://www.miamiherald.com/living/columnists/
leonard_pitts/story/389858.html

Family Wrestles with Slave Trading Past
Denver Post
http://www.denverpost.com/lacrosse/ci_7972147

Don't be Colorblind
PR Web Newsrelease Newswire
http://www.prweb.com/releases/workplace
/diversity/prweb616181.htm

Jobs for White People?
Charlotte Conservative News
http://www.charlotteconservative.com/
index.php/2008/01/jobs-for-white-people/

Echoes of Tom Bradley
Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/10/AR2008011003274.html

Reduced to the Small Screen
Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/
11/09/AR2007110900612_pf.html

More Blacks Appear to be adopting White Children
Cleveland Plain Dealer
http://www.cleveland.com/news/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/
news/119736546492430.xml&coll=2

Hispanics say Life in the US Getting Harder
National Imigrant Justice Center
http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/ss/breakingnews/71576.php

This is How We Die
Leonard Pitts Jr.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/chi-oped1204pittsdec04,0,5502894.story

Diversity is the Root of Democracy
Thomas Friedman
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/11/11/opinion/edfriedman.php

Let All Blacks Speak for Themselves
Leonard Pitts Jr.
http://www.miamiherald.com/living/columnists/leonard_pitts
/story/302055.html

White's Great Hope - Barak Obama and the Color Blind Dream
Wall Street Journal
http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB119466546698288951-Te1Se_B1TS6Osh_NQlJCphNzNa4_20071210.html?
mod=tff_main_tff_top

Forty Acres and a Wealth Gap
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/11/18/opinion/edgates.php

U.S. Names: Garcias are catching the Joneses
NY Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/17/us/17surnames.html?hp

Student Hangs Signs
The Wolf Web
http://brentroad.com/message_topic.aspx?topic=501526

Pilot Schools Offer Hope
Grand Rapids Press
http://www.mlive.com/grandrapids/stories/index.ssf?/base/news-2/1194619529196890.xml&coll=6

Studying up on Dropout Data
Grand Rapids Press
http://www.mlive.com/grandrapids/stories/index.ssf?/base/news-2/119444685111550.xml&coll=6

School Chief Blasts Drop Out Report
Grand Rapids Press
http://www.mlive.com/grandrapids/stories/index.ssf?
/base/news-38/119383922819280.xml&coll=6

Calvin College Ready to Oust Prof
Grand Rapids Press
http://www.mlive.com/news/grpress
/index.ssf?/base/news-38/119383906319280.xml&coll=6

Jena 6 case Spurs Copy Cats
USA Today
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/
2007-10-09-race_N.htm

Racial Discrimination in Medicine Hidden
The Grand Rapids Press
http://www.mlive.com/grandrapids/stories/index.
ssf?/base/news-0/1191332812296910.xml&coll=6

Mom Publishes a Book about Children and Choices
The Grand Rapids Press
http://www.mlive.com/grandrapids/stories/
index.ssf?/base/news-38/1192255581185000.xml&coll=6

Multiply Sense of Betrayal by 388 Years
Leonard Pitts
http://www.miamiherald.com/living/
columnists/leonard_pitts/story/250556.html

Injustice is Bigger Than Jena 6
Clarence Page
http://www.buffalonews.com/
248/story/170023.html

Minority Franchising
NMFI
http://www.minorityfranchising
.com/about_us.php

When the Justice System Lacks Justice
Leonard Pitts
http://www.miamiherald.com
/851/story/242637.html

The World Comes to Georgia and an Old Church Adapts
New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/22/us/22church.html?ex=
1191124800&en=a25de719d14b7088&ei=5070&emc=eta1

Wake Up and Sell the Coffee
Michael Gates Gill
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/
books/2003883449_starbucks140.html

Jena Conviction Overturned
Black College Wire
http://www.blackcollegewire.org/news/
070917_jena-court-decision/

Jena 6 Petition
Sing-up online
http://www.colorofchange.org/jena/

Racial Demons Rear their Ugly Heads
Bill Quigley
http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2007/07/
nooses-hang-from-the-white-tree/

Missing People Face Disparity in Media Coverage
MSN
http://lifestyle.msn.com/specialguides/article.aspx
?cp-documentid=5289082&GT1=10323

K-Mart to stock Multi-racial Dolls
Associated Press
http://money.aol.com/news/articles/_a/kmart
-uses-ethnic-dolls-as-shopper-draw/n200708
13101309990008

Expect More Challenges to Diversity Programs
Diverse Issues in Higher Education
http://diverseeducation.com/artman/publish/article
_9015.shtml

Could Mr. Wrong be Mr. Right
Associated Press
http://www.mlive.com/ap/stories/index.ssf?
/base/national-90/118625580674650.xml&storylist
=topstories

How the Riots Changed Us
Clarence Page
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists
/chi-oped0722pagejul22,1,7511606.column

Urban Schools Public Will
(book recommended by Dr. Bernard Taylor)
Norm Fruchter
http://www.amazon.com/Urban-Schools
-Public-Will-Education/dp/0807747408/ref=pd
bbs_sr_1/102-6968795-0280113?ie=UTF8&s
=books&qid=1186107427&sr=8-1

Kent Co. High School students get diversity training
The Grand Rapids Press
http://www.mlive.com/grandrapids/stories/index.ssf?
/base/news-37/1184759732257890.xml&coll=6

NAACP buries the "N" word
MSNBC
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19680493/

See no evil (comment on School Choice decision)
Philadelphia Inquirer
http://www.philly.com/inquirer/opinion/20070630
_Editorial____Supreme_Court_School_Ruling.html

Whites don't understand the black experience
New American Media
http://news.newamericamedia.org/news/view_article.html?
article_id=1800bf98768d32814e3bdceb12423390

Latino fear and loathing Pt. II
Linda Chavez
http://jewishworldreview.com/cols/chavez060107.php3

Latino fear and loathing
Linda Chavez
http://jewishworldreview.com/cols/chavez052507.php3

Minority population tops 100 million
MSNBC
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18715129/

Diversity still lagging in Bay area board rooms
The Boston Globe
http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2007/05/11/
diversity_still_lagging_in_bay_state_boardrooms/

Rappers only talent is pimping musical trash
Alberta Phillips
http://www.statesman.com/opinion/content/editorial/
stories/04/23/23albertaphil_edit.html

Abolish the "N" word - an intriguing site.
Discontinue using the N word in art culture and language.
THIS SITE HAS DISTURBING IMAGES.
http://www.abolishthenword.com/

Ignore facts if your mind is made up
Leonard Pitts Jr.
http://www.miamiherald.com/285/story/75283.html

Georgia school throws integrated prom
Los Angeles Chronicle
http://www.losangeleschronicle.com/articles/
viewArticle.asp?articleID=25054

Taylor apologizes but won't revive the program
Grand Rapids Press
http://www.mlive.com/grandrapids/stories/index.ssf?
/base/news-35/1176821565223630.xml&coll=6

City picked the wrong poster child
Grand Rapids Press
http://www.mlive.com/grandrapids/stories/index.ssf?
/base/news-35/117707011586100.xml&coll=6

A 'Newroots' civil rights revolution helps free teen
Clarence Page
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/chi-0704030527apr04,1,387394.column?coll=chi-news-col

An inner city school that works
Leonard Pitts Jr.
http://www.sfacademy.org/inthenews/
newspaper/20070330miamiherald.php

Tuskegee Airmen deserved salute
Tom Teepen
http://www.pasadenastarnews.com/opinions/ci_5578978

Racial Tensions flare over charges against teachers
Associated Press
http://www.goupstate.com/article/20070329/NEWS/
70329007/1051/NEWS01&source=rss

Speakers discuss church's role in social justice
Grand Rapids Press
http://www.mlive.com/grandrapids/stories/index.
ssf?/base/news-1/1175324617169340.xml&coll=6

Tuskegee Airmen get their due
Lexington Herald Leader
http://www.kentucky.com/263/story/30072.html

Schools vary in anti-gang efforts -
Grand Rapids Press
http://www.mlive.com/grandrapids/stories/index.ssf?
/base/news-35/1174720110132790.xml&coll=6

Movies' "Magic Negro" saves the day
Black Commentator
http://www.blackcommentator.com/49/49_magic.html

States debate formal slavery apologies
Los Angeles Times
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-apology19mar19,0,379744.story?coll=la-home-headlines

Black Immigrants collect most degrees
Clarence Page - Chicago Tribune
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/chi-0703180344mar18,1,2681158.column?coll=chi-news-col

Middle Class may become obselete -
Market Wire - NewsEdge Corporation
http://www.completelandlord.com/USDemographicsETS
ReportConvergingForcesThreatenAmericasFuture.aspx

Obama faces a crossover dilemma
Clarence Page
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/chi-0702070021feb07,1,260895.column?coll=chi-navrailnews-nav

A New Agenda for a New Michigan - “What really matters
in better positioning Michigan and its regions for success
in a knowledge-driven and entrepreneurial economy?”
http://www.michiganfuture.org/Reports/
NewAgendaFinalReportComplete.pdf

Klansman Denies Guilt in 1964 Killings
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/nation/4500972.html

Light-skinned Immigrants Earn More
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/01/26/america/
NA-GEN-US-Skin-Tone-Income.php

Study Identifys Hispanic Dynamics
http://www.mlive.com/search/index.ssf?/base
/news-34/116927857290860.xml?grpress?NEG&coll=6

Clergy seek Immigration Reform
http://www.mlive.com/printer/printer.ssf?/base/news-
34/116806830156730.xml

Teen has a Lofty Goal: Abolish Slavery
http://www.mlive.com/search/index.ssf?/base
/news-1/116927959090860.xml?grpress?NER&coll=6

Heartwell Plans to Push Civil Rights
http://www.mlive.com/search/index.ssf?/base/
news-34/116931030259480.xml?grpress?NEG&coll=6

Heartwell Lauds the "Monday Group"
http://www.mlive.com/search/index.ssf?/base/
news-34/1169367053128200.xml?grpress?NEG&coll=6

Online Resources

Advocates who say black Americans should be compensated for slavery and its Jim Crow aftermath are quietly chalking up victories and
gaining momentum.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/1110AP_Slavery_Reparations.html

Diversity's Business Case Doesn't Add up. - Workforce Management Article
http://www.workforce.com/section/11/feature/23/42/49/index.html

Martin Luther King, Jr. - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_King_Jr.

American Civil Rights Movement (1955-1968) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_civil_rights_movement

NAACP - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NAACP

Timeline of the American Civil Rights Movement - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_American_Civil_Rights_Movement

Cultural diversity - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_Diversity

Global Alliance for Cultural Diversity: UNESCO Culture Sector
http://portal.unesco.org/culture/en/
ev.php-URL_ID=24468&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html

International network for cultural diversity
http://www.incd.net/about.html

Cultural diversity - WikEd
http://wik.ed.uiuc.edu/index.php/Cultural_diversity

Diversity Central, DiversityCentral.com, Diversity at Work, Best Practices
http://www.diversityhotwire.com/

CanTeach - Resources for Educators, Multicultural Links (Canada)
http://persweb.direct.ca/ikhan/links/linkmulticultpromo.html

Clearinghouse for Multicultural/Bilingual Education (U.S.)
http://catsis.weber.edu/MBE/HTMLs/MBE.html

Diversity Training University Intermational
http://www.diversityuintl.com/

Equity and Diversity Unit (Australia)
http://www.equity.uts.edu.au/

Workplace Diversity Network, Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations (U.S.)
http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/depts/WDN/

Employment Non-Discrimination Act, Human Rights Campaign (U.S.)
http://www.hrc.org/issues/leg/enda/

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (U.S.)
http://www.eeoc.gov/

Cross Cultural Health Care Program (U.S.)
http://www.xculture.org/

The Global Compact
http://www.unglobalcompact.org/

Diversophy
http://www.diversophy.com/

Multicultural Pavilion (U.S.)
http://curry.edschool.virginia.edu/go/multicultural/home.html

American Demographics Magazine (U.S.)
http://www.demographics.com/

Black Enterprise (U.S.)
http://www.blackenterprise.com/

Global Assignment, The Adams Report
http://www.globalassignment.com/

Hispanic Business Magazine (U.S.)
http://www.hispanstar.com/

Rosa Parks - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosa_parks

National Underground Railroad Freedom Center
http://www.freedomcenter.org/

Documenting the American South (UniversityofNorth Carolina)
http://docsouth.unc.edu/index.html

Frederick Douglas What to the Slave is 4th of July
http://afgen.com/douglas.html

History of Jim Crow
http://www.jimcrowhistory.org/home.htm

This Far by Faith
(PBS Documentary on African American Faith History)
http://www.pbs.org/thisfarbyfaith/

Center for the Study of White American Culture
http://www.euroamerican.org/

Black People Love Us
http://www.blackpeopleloveus.com/

Audio and Visual Resources

Slavery and the Making of America
(PBS Documentary and Book) This groundbreaking 4-part documentary presents a detailed look at the institution itself, a national practice which helped transform tiny colonies into the worlds strongest nation. The program asserts that U.S.slavery gradually evolved from a loosely defined labor system, under which Africans and their descendants retained legal and property rights, into the tightly regulated enslavement of individuals based solely on race.

Race in Reality
TV8 Special locally produced documentary

Ku Klux Klan A Secret History
History Channel Documentary

Crash
DVD

Color of Fear
Video Lee Mun Wah

Free Indeed
Video Mennonite Central Committee (They have some great videos that they loan out) http://www.mcc.org/catalog

Race is a Myth
Video Mennonite Central Committee

The Wiz
DVD/Video The Scene Everybody Rejoice

Bamboozled
DVD Spike Lee

Colorful World
Song CD Purify CeCe Winans

Strange Fruit
Song Billie Holliday

Ethnic Notions
Video Probably in library

Books

Race, Religion and Racism
Dr. Fred Price. (3 volumes The best research on the subject I have EVER seen!!)

At the Hands of Persons Unknown
Philip Dray (Subtitled The Lynching of Black America very inciteful and factual account of the American south of the early 1900s through the 1930s)

The Heart of Racial Justice
Brenda Salter McNeil & Rick Richardson (Puts content in spiritual terms)

Divided by Faith
Michael Emerson and Christian Smith (2 sociologists break it down!!)

The American mosaic: an in-depth report on the future of diversity at work

Carnevale, Anthony Patrick and Stone, Susan Carol.

Beyond race and gender: unleashing the power of your total work force by managing diversity

Thomas, R. Roosevelt.

Building a house for diversity: how a fable about a giraffe & elephant offers new strategies for today's workforce

Thomas, R. Roosevelt; Woodruff, Marjorie I, and NetLibrary, Inc.

The change equation: capitalizing on diversity for effective organizational change
Norton, J. Renae and Fox, Ronald E.

The changing nature of work: implications for occupational analysis
National Academy Press (U.S.); National Research Council (U.S.)

Coaching across cultures: new tools for leveraging national, corporate, and professional differences
Rosinski, Philippe

The Community of the future / Frances Hesselbein, ... et al. , editors
Hesselbein, Frances

Cracking the corporate code: the revealing success stories of 32 African-American 
Cobbs, Price M and Turnock, Judith L

Creating the multicultural organization: a strategy for capturing the power of diversity
Cox, Taylor

Cross-cultural management: foundations and future
Tjosvold, Dean and Leung, Kwok

Crosstalk: communicating in a multicultural workplace
Kenton, Sherron B and Valentine, Deborah

Demographic differences in organizations: current research and future directions
Tsui, Anne S and Gutek, Barbara A

Developing cultural adaptability
Deal, Jennifer J; Prince, Don W; Dalton, Maxine A; Hoppe, Michael H, and Wilson, Meena S.

Differences that work: organizational excellence through diversity
Gentile, Mary C and NetLibrary, Inc.

The diversity advantage: multicultural identity in the new world economy
Zachary, G. Pascal

The diversity scorecard: evaluating the impact of diversity on organizational performance
Hubbard, Edward E

Equality, diversity and disadvantage in employment
Noon, Mike and Ogbonna, Emmanuel