Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Justice Learning Resources
Videos:
- Brothers of Climbing
- Rules for the Black Birder
- A humorous overview about why our communities are so segregated. (Dovetails with an early chapter in “Waking Up White, and Finding Myself in the Story of Race“)
- Beyond Xenophobia: A Maine immigrant business owner talks about achieving multi-cultural workplaces.
- Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution A Netflix-produced feature-length film about the birth of the disability rights movement.
Articles:
- “Racism is Killing the Planet” (June 8, 2020, Sierra)
- “It’s time to correct legal inequities harming Maine’s tribes” – Opinion article in the Bangor Daily News by former Maine Senator and Attorney General Michael Carpenter about LD 1626. (September 24, 2021)
Three Rivers Land Trust Book Club Choices:
- Waking Up White, and Finding Myself in the Story of Race by Debby Irving
- I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness by Austin Channing Brown
- How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
- Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teaching of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer
- Full Moon Rising: Centering Indigenous Voice for the Regeneration of Conservation by Peter Forbes
- Sitting Pretty: The View From My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body by Rebekah Taussig
Book links take you to independent retailer Longfellow Books in Portland, ME, but click here for a list of Black-owned bookstores who have or are currently offering online shopping.