21-Day Racial Equity Habit Building Challenge - UK

Take Part in our: 21-Day Racial Equity?Challenge?- UK

We're making a commitment to developing new, positive habits over the next 21 days. In an effort to foster awareness and compassion, and think more critically about issues surrounding?race, power, privilege, and justice,?we?challenge?you to participate in our?UK?21-Day Racial Equity Habit Building?Challenge with us.

We curated this?challenge?to be simple and accessible. It consists of 21 days of short videos or articles that have been put together with the UK's fight for equality in mind.

Each day's selections require around 10-15 minutes to complete.

Week 1: Recognizing Racism 101 - Terms and Background

DAY 1

The myth of race | BBC Ideas (7 minutes) Is race a myth? Discussing race as a social construct but defining how we live and influencing our access as a result. Is there any biological basis for categorising humans by race?

Difference between non-racist and being anti-racist (3 minutes) John Amaechi - a psychologist, author and former NBA basketball player - discusses what it means to be anti-racist at a time when many people want to learn how they can be better allies for black people.

DAY 2

Does the UK suffer from similar systemic racism to the US? | Question Time - BBC (15 minutes) Politicians enter in a topical debate with a virtual audience from Southampton about whether they as a panel believe the UK suffers from similar systemic racial issues as the US and what we can do to address it.

DAY 3?

Public opinion : Is Britain racist? Three Brits speak out - BBC Three (2 minutes) Richard, Hanna and Deji speak out about racism in the UK based on their personal experience

How to be a true ally : https://twitter.com/i/status/1268264740171759616 (4 minutes) Obioma Ugoala, from Hamilton Musical on the West End, talks about the myth that racism is a US problem and why the UK needs to fight for the cause

DAY 4

Reni Eddo-Lodge: ‘Britain is in denial about race’ - Viewsnight (2 minutes) Reni Eddo-Lodge provides brief examples demonstrating systemic racism in the UK and explains why it’s important to recognize and face the UK’s problem with racism.

Racism faced by Asians in East End London (8 minutes) Filmed in 1978, the clip looks at the struggles the local East End Asian community faces against the rise of racist attacks and the growth of the National Front.

Week 2: Colonialism, History and the Monarchy

DAY 5

The Dark Forgotten Truth About the British Empire (16 minutes) History of harms wrought around the world by the British Empire

DAY 6

British Colonial History (4 minutes)?A very quick summary of colonial history with callouts on the most hard-hitting truths about the treatment of people

History of Racism in the British Royal Family (5 minutes)?A video that looks at how the Crown and the British royal family have arguably entrenched colonial structures of racism more than any other entity in history.

DAY 7

How Britain stole from India (6 minutes)?The astounding wealth the UK stole from India, and the harm the Brits caused by partition (harms that continues today)

How British Colonialism 'destroyed' India (6 minutes)?Indian MP Shashi Tharoor talks about British colonial misdeeds and their echoes today on Channel 4 News

DAY 8

Slavery in Britain: What don't we know? (5 minutes) The slave trade was vital to the economy of the British Empire for hundreds of years. Historians and experts discuss Britain's past - and how its legacy is still felt today.

?Life Aboard a Slave Ship (5 minutes) From approximately 1525 to 1866, 12.5 million Africans were forcibly transported across the Middle Passage to serve as slaves in the New World. Life aboard slave ships was agonizing and dangerous; nearly 2 million slaves would perish on their journey across the Atlantic.

?Day 9 ?

Windrush explained (6 minutes)?They came here as children, their families invited by the British Government to help rebuild the country and were then deported or faced deportation.

Windrush Generation context (2 minutes) A factual overview of the discrimination faced by the Windrush Generation upon arrival to the UK and the administrative failures that have resulted in their lack of citizenship nowadays.

?Week 3: Modern-Day Racism and Effects on People and Policy

?DAY 10 ?

Covid-19’s impact on minorities and racial inequality (5 minutes)?Looking at the report that highlights the disproportionate impact of Covid-19 on ethnic minorities in the UK and what the government should be doing about it. 58,000 more people would have died in the first wave if white population faced the same risk as black communities.

Politics of nationalism and racism in post-Brexit Britain (6 minutes)?Instances of racist hate crimes have surged in the UK since the 2016 Brexit referendum. The rise of populist nationalism in many parts of the developed world testifies to the resurgence of fears around intensified immigration, and to the renewed power of racism. This video examines the varying forms of nationalism harboured amongst British elites, and considers how intensifying inequalities inform volatile nationalist and racist sentiments across British society.

My Life as an Immigrant in 1960s Britain - #YourStoryOurHistory (3 minutes)?Shango Baku talks about his time in the UK from when he arrived from Trinidad in 1962, trying to find accommodation

DAY 11 ?

What Fuels Racism (3 minutes)?Another clip from the 1970s: Does poverty and under-investment fuel discrimination and racism within a community? What leads people to vote for the National Front? A white community activist shares his thoughts.?

The Mangrove Nine (3 minutes)?A brief history of the history-making trial. The Mangrove Nine were a group of British black activists tried for inciting a riot at a protest, in 1970, against the police targeting of The Mangrove, a Caribbean restaurant in Notting Hill, west London. Their trial lasted 55 days and involved various challenges by the Nine to the legitimacy of the judicial process. They were all acquitted of the most serious charges and the trial became the first judicial acknowledgment of behaviour motivated by racial hatred within the Metropolitan Police.

Grenfell Tower disaster and its link to racial discrimination (2 minutes 30) Highlighting the racial demographics of the residents of Grenfell in a call to have racial discrimination considered at the hearings following the aftermath of the tragedy

DAY 12 ?

Youth Violence in the UK (10 minutes)Writer and rapper Akala speaks out about the death rate at the hands of youth violence in the UK and how it should not be explained by race

DAY 13 ?

UK Islamophobia (3 minutes)?An interview about the Runnymede report highlighting everyday anti-Muslim racism and its findings

?British MP Calls Out Islamophobia In Powerful Speech (3 minutes) A heartbreaking account about the realities of being a Muslim woman, left-wing and the barrage of racism and hate faced in the wake of employment in parliament. Zarah Sultana powerfully talks about her experience and the link to overall Islamophobia and other discrimination and racism.

DAY 14

?Why the UK’s Race Report Sparked a Backlash (12 minutes) A report from the UK Government stated that institutional racism doesn't exist in the UK’s education, housing or health systems, and that people should look to find the positives in the country’s shameful history with slavery.?

Week 4: White Privilege

DAY 15

What is white privilege? (3 minutes)?What is privilege? The speaker discusses how to recognise privilege or the absence of it and how it affects everything we do. Understanding privilege can help you realise why some people’s lives are harder than they should be and it can help us be vigilant about the ways we treat others differently than us. “It helps us make a society that is fairer and more equal”

White privilege and reparations for Black people in the US (4 minutes) A comedian on his daily talk show addresses an audience member’s question to explain what reparations really mean in terms of the period of slavery in the US and how all injustices don’t have the same weighting and cannot be grouped together as one

Kids Learn About White Privilege (4 minutes) An activity conducted at a school to address the realities of privilege with the aim to highlight its effects to children.

DAY 16

Article: Confronting Race (7-minute read) A speaker on panels and workshops turns up to speak about race deliberately and thoughtfully but confronts the reality that in each session, white people are vocal and feel it’s their space to be heard on their opinions on race. “White supremacy is a construct of white people, a construct they have benefited from, and deconstructing white supremacy is their duty.”

How to be an immigrant British people will warm to (3 minutes 30) A light and humorous commentary calling out the concerns with why British immigrants may not “fit” into British culture.

DAY 17?

Bike thieves caught or helped?? (9 minutes)?This episode of a popular ABC show explores the impact of racial and gender bias and prejudice at a city park.

What is intersectionality? (3 minutes) A brief explanation on intersectionality, of discrimination and understanding social relations by how multiple forms of oppression can be present at the same time for a person.

Week 5: Developing Understanding and Effecting Change

DAY 18

Edward Colston statue and deep dive into history (6 minutes)?This video looks at the legacy of the transatlantic slave trade, and the evolution of statues within public spaces across the world. There is also an excellent spoken-word poem, Hollow, presented by Vanessa Kisuule near the end of the video.

Why I’m still fighting racism at 90 (5 minutes) Anti-racism pioneer Roy Hackett - who is now in his 90s - reveals the extraordinary level of racism he faced when he first arrived in the UK in the 1950s.

DAY 19 ?

Reverse Racism is a lie and here's why (3 minutes)?Highlighting the bigger picture of racism on an individual and societal level, where we don’t live in a reality where all racial groups have equal power. “In a society where white is seen as the default race, all history is white history”

The Race Relations Act (2 minutes) The strive for legal protection from racial discrimination began more recently than we realize. From the first Race Relations Act in 1965 to the Equality Act in 2010, the animation looks at the journey.

DAY 20

Author Bernardine Evaristo on BLM, racism and creating change (11 minutes) In the wake of recent events and prominent news agendas on racial injustices, channel 4 news speaks to author Bernardine Evaristo about how she feels and the choices she made for the representation of characters in her book

Everybody’s racist rap (2 minutes) Comedian Doc Brown presents a rap on Good News as a humorous take on racism slang 101

DAY 21

What to do if you hear racist language (3-4 minute read) A short primer on strategies to respond when racist language is used

How To Tell Someone They Sound Racist (3 minutes)?How to call out racist behaviour effectively by not getting embroiled in dissecting intent or beliefs