The Missouri State Council of SHRM is committed to fighting racism, injustice, and inequality by equipping HR professionals across the state with the resources needed to navigate difficult conversations, situations, and scenarios.

As HR professionals it is our responsibility to create inclusive and equitable work environments free of microaggressions.  Here are several resources that you may find helpful as we all continue to listen, learn and act.  We encourage you to follow us on social media as we continue to share resources.  Please also connect with your local SHRM chapter if you are not already a member to get support from HR professionals in your community.

Diversity Partners and Educators

Consider partnering with a third-party diversity partner or educator if you don’t have the resources in house.

• Urgently Looking For Anti-Racism Training for Your Company? Start Here.
• YWCA – eliminating racism empowering women
• Diversity Awareness Partnership (DAP)
• Urban League of Greater Kansas City
• Urban League of Greater St. Louis
• 7 Anti-Racism Educators Your Company Needs Now
• Missouri State Educational Diversity Activities
• University of MO Columbia – Inclusion, Diversity & Equity resources
• University of MO Kansas City – Diversity & Inclusion Community Resources
• The Winters Group
• Promo
• Human Rights Campaign Missouri

Articles or Books to READ

• Your Black Colleagues May Look Like They’re Okay — Chances Are They’re Not
• For Black Professionals, Unrest Lays Bare a Balancing Act at Work
• How to Address Workplace Bias
• 75 Things White People Can Do for Racial Justice
• What CEOs and Managers should be doing for Black Employees
• Taking Steps to Eliminate Racism in the Workplace
• Self-Guided Curriculum: Race, Racism, and the American Experience
• Six Ways to Help Your Organization be more Inclusive
• How to Address Workplace Bias
• Can Blind Hiring Improve Workplace Diversity?
• Glossary on Gender Identity and Sexual Orientation
• The Memo: What Women of Color Need to Know to Secure a Seat at the Table by Minda Harts
• How to Be An Antiracist, Ibram X. Kendi
• Whistling Vivaldi: How Stereotypes Affect Us and What We Can Do (Issues of our Time), Claude M. Steele
• Dear White America, Tim Wise
• Biased, Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do, Jennifer Eberhardt
• Witnessing Whiteness: The Need to Talk About Race and How to Do it, Shelly Tochluck
• We Can’t Talk About That at Work! How to talk about race, religion, politics, and other polarizing topics, Mary-Frances Winters

Videos, Movies or Film Series to WATCH

• Black Feminism & the Movement for Black Lives: Barbara Smith, Reina Gossett, Charlene Carruthers (50:48)
• Dr. Robin DiAngelo discusses ‘White Fragility’ (1:23:30)
• “How Studying Privilege Systems Can Strengthen Compassion” | Peggy McIntosh at TEDxTimberlaneSchools (18:26)
• Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man – Emmanuel Acho
• Lecture: Jennifer Eberhardt, Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice (1:09:19)
• Skills for Inclusive Conversations (LinkedIn Learning Course)
• Cultivating Cultural Competence and Inclusion (LinkedIn Learning Course)
• BlackTrans Lives Matter – TEDx event
• 13th (Ava DuVernay) — Netflix
• American Son (Kenny Leon) — Netflix
• Black Power Mixtape: 1967-1975 — Available to rent
• Blindspotting (Carlos López Estrada) — Hulu with Cinemax or available to rent
• Clemency (Chinonye Chukwu) — Available to rent
• Dear White People (Justin Simien) — Netflix
• Fruitvale Station (Ryan Coogler) — Available to rent
• I Am Not Your Negro (James Baldwin doc) — Available to rent or on Kanopy
• If Beale Street Could Talk (Barry Jenkins) — Hulu
• Just Mercy (Destin Daniel Cretton) — Available to rent
• See You Yesterday (Stefon Bristol) — Netflix
• Selma (Ava DuVernay) — Available to rent for free in June 2020 in the U.S.
• The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution — Available to rent
• The Hate U Give (George Tillman Jr.) — Available to rent for free
• When They See Us (Ava DuVernay) — Netflix

Podcasts to LISTEN to

• Dirty Diversity
• Brené with Ibram X. Kendi on How to Be an Antiracist
• The HX Podcast featuring Carl Sokia – Fitting In
• Diversity, Inclusion, Opportunity and Recognition with Tamara Rasberry
• 1619 (New York Times audio series observing the 400th anniversary of the beginning of American slavery)
• About Race
• Code Switch
• POD For The Cause
• POD Save The People
• Seeing White

Get connected with HR professionals in your community

If you are not a member of your local SHRM chapter, we encourage you to check out chapter locations across the state, follow them on social media and even consider joining so you can lean on and network with HR professionals in your community.

You can find local chapters here or reach out to chapter presidents:

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