Statement on Harassment - The Lilly Awards In December of 2014, Attorney Norman Siegel, and a small group of theater professionals met to discuss harassment and abuse in the theatrical community. They drew up a preliminary Statement of Principle in order to raise awareness and identify...
Yes and No: Conversations About Thriving with Artists of Color in the Twin Cities, a report for the McKnight Foundation.
Interviewees were asked "What does it mean for you to thrive as a working artist of color?" "Are you thriving now?" "What do you need to...
Steady Growth and Big Changes Ahead: The Regional Forecast to 2040 from Metro Stats.
Statistics on job growth and demographic shifts in the Twin Cities in the next two decades.
I'm a black actor. Here's how inequality works when you're not famous. by Bear Bellinger for Vox.
Recounting his own experiences with auditioning and performing for stage and television, Bear sounds the call for more diverse environments.
Letter from a Birmingham Jail by Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
The famous 1963 letter penned by Rev Dr. MLK Jr containing a strong defense of nonviolent resistant against racism, including the phrase "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."
The Case for Reparations by Ta-Nehisi Coates for The Atlantic.
"Until we reckon with our compounding moral debts, America will never be whole." A long-form essay with incredibly poignant insights drawn from a chronicling of the last five centuries of African slaves and their...
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Discussing Race by Jay Smooth for TEDxHampshireCollege (text available at link).
NYC's longest running hiphop radio program, the Underground Railroad, speaks on moving through defensiveness and fear to focus on growing through our...
Katori Hall's Speech from 2012 TCG Fall Forum on Governance: Video of Katori Hall's keynote speech to TCG's Fall Forum on Governance to the nation's theatre trustees about her experience as a playwright of color.
Building Healthy Workplace Culture (downloadable pdf) from the HR Council of Canada. Includes a bunch of resources and thoughts to consider for creating a culture where individual employees can be their whole selves without compromising the work....
Rankism is a Campus Climate Issue (downloadable pdf) by Teddie Potter for the University of Minnesota's Campus Climate blog. Perhaps one of the more insidious ways culture manifests is in class stratification. Prompted by a run-in with a maintenance worker who had been rebuffed...