13 Ways to Help

1. Do the work to educate yourself. Don’t force other people to do the labor for you.
2. Listen with an open heart and mind when someone tells you their story. Believe them.
3. Examine your biases. Work to overcome them.
4. Commit to being anti-racist. Tolerance isn’t enough. Don’t accept excuses for racist behavior.
5. If you make a mistake, own up to it.
6. Use your platform and privilege to spread knowledge.
7. Seek out Black scholarship. Use it, teach it, elevate it.
8. Donate
9. March
10. Buy from Black businesses
11. Contact all your politicians from local to state to federal
12. Register to vote AND vote in every election you can
13. Take care of yourself

Resources

Bias training & Anti-racism

• Being Antiracist
• Project Implicit
• Making people aware of their implicit biases doesn’t usually change minds. But here’s what does work.

How to help

• Performative Allyship is Deadly (Here’s What to Do Instead)
• For Our White Friends Desiring to Be Allies

Defund the police

• How Much Do We Need the Police?
• The End of Policing by Alex Vitale
• What Exactly Does It Mean to Defund the Police?
• Washington Post Police Shootings Database
• Database of police violence videos (Google Sheet)

Scientists and academia

• 500 Women Scientists
• Black biological anthropologists (Google Sheet)
• White Academia: Do Better.

Other

• Black Lives Matter
• A Decade of Watching Black People Die
• 1619 Project from the New York Times
• Black History Year from Pushblack
• Anti-Racism Resources

Organizations

• Black Lives Matter
• Equal Justice Initiative
• Brooklyn Community Bail Fund
• Chicago Community Bond Fund
• ACLU
• Reclaim the Block
• National Black Justice Coalition

My commitments

1. Mindfully select guests to ensure a diversity of voices are heard on the podcast
2. Ask each guest questions about the following topics (depending on their areas of expertise):
   • The current state of diversity and inclusion in academia as a whole and biological anthropology in particular. How has it changed? How far do we have to go? What can individuals do to help?
   • Biological anthropology’s historic role in defining race and propagating racism. Biological anthropology’s current efforts to push back on racism.
   • Biological anthropology’s relationship with descendent communities and study populations.
   • Race determination and forensic anthropology.