Moving to the Burbs While Black

GCC Community Talks

Welcome back to another great season of COMMUNITY TALKS!
Join hosts Kim Grant and Victor Dione as Tony Keys climbs into the guest seat to talk about his experiences moving to Germantown while black. It's important for us to take time and intention to view the world through another person's perspective in order to have empathy for their lived experience and to see how we impact their experience good and bad.
Be About It:

• Read Dr. Martin Luther King's speech "The Other America" or watch the video here.
• Educate yourself on unconscious bias.
  • Marquette Lubar Center for Public Policy Research and Civic Education· https://law.marquette.edu/lubar-center
  • Harvard Implicit Association Bias Test https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/takeatest.html
  • Banaji, Mahzarin R. and Anthony G. Greenwald. Blindspot: Hidden Biases of Good People (2016)
  • Chugh, Dolly. The Person You Mean to Be: How Good People Fight Bias (2018)
  • Eberhardt, Jennifer. Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do (2019)
  • Jana, Tiffany and Matthew Freeman. Overcoming Bias: Building Authentic Relationships Across Differences (2016)
  • Recommended Reading: Celebration Diversity (American Library Association)
• If you hear something or see something racist, say something. Silence is complicity and we are in 2023 where that should not be acceptable to anyone. Help educate the people involved to improve your community and make it a safer, more welcoming space.
• Thank you to our members who make this programming possible; you can become a member today on our website https://www.germantowncommunitycoalition.org/support-us.