Momentum: A Maine Racial & Social Equity Series
This is an ONGOING opportunity! Please scroll down for resources and event replays
Thank you for participating in Momentum: A Maine Racial and Social Equity Series! Your efforts helped continue the conversation of advancing racial equity. Stay tuned for future offerings from the Chamber and our partners!
These activities are structured for you to complete on your own time. Please scroll down for evergreen resources and event replays.
Provided by the Portland Public Library
May 2021: Storytelling as a Tool for Racial Equity
• Poetry and Racial Justice and Equality is a curated collection of poems, articles and blog posts, and audio/video files from The Poetry Foundation.
• The Quarry is a searchable collection of over 500 poems by a diverse array of contemporary socially engaged poets that is searchable by social justice theme, author’s identity, state, and geographic region.
• Poems About Race is a collection of original, contemporary poems from Power Poetry, the world’s first and largest mobile poetry community for youth.
• Abdurraqib, Samaa Each Day Is Like An Anchor. Maine, A Clearing, a Maine arts community, 2020.
• Bouwsma, Julia. Midden. New York, Fordham University Press, 2018.
• Millikin, Claire. Enough! Poems of Resistance and Protest. Portland, Maine, Littoral Books, 2020.
• Telling Room, The. A New Land: 30 Groundbreaking Poems by Youth Poets. Portland, Maine, The Telling Room, 2020.
April 2021: Asian-American Discrimination
• Chinese in Maine, a Maine Historical Society exhibit from 2003, is available online as a slideshow. Images and text suggest the ways in which a minority population lived and coped in a state that was not known for ethnic diversity.
• Twenty Nationalities, But All Americans, another slideshow from Maine Historical Society, offers a glimpse at the “Americanization” classes offered by the Portland Public Schools from 1922-1945.
• Asian Americans, a five-part documentary series released by PBS in 2020, traces the story of Asian Americans over 150 years.
• An Asian-American Account: A Story by Zabrina from 2020 is a collection of art, poetry, and prose written by a Chinese-American teenager from Maine. Zabrina’s story is part of the Maine Memory Network’s My Maine Stories collection.
• Discrimination in America: Experiences and Views of Asian Americans. This report is based on a survey created for National Public Radio, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. November, 2017.
• Self Evident is a community-driven podcast that tells Asian America’s stories to explore what it really means to claim America today.
• Takei, George. They Called Us Enemy. Marietta, Top Shelf Productions, 2019.
• Hong, Cathy Park. Minor Feelings. New York, One World, 2020.
March 2021: How to Talk to Children About Race
• In June 2020, CNN's Van Jones and Erica Hill partnered with Sesame Street for Coming Together: Standing Up to Racism. You can view the entire town hall for kids and families.
• This PBS Kids Learning Kit with Daniel Tiger was designed to help very young children define and celebrate similarities and differences in each other.
• Hudson, Wade and Cheryl Willis Hudson. The Talk: Conversations about Race, Love & Truth. New York, Crown Books for Young Readers, 2020.
• Jewell, Tiffany. This Book Is Anti-racist. Minneapolis, Frances Lincoln Children's Books, 2020.
• Joseph, Frederick. The Black Friend: On Being A Better White Person. Sommerville, Candlewick Press, 2020.
• This Windows InChildren's Book List Includes all the picture books owned by Portland Public Library that feature stories that act as "windows" into other people’s lives and cultures.
• In My Skin, a P.R.I.D.E Podcast focuses on implicit bias and how it affects children.
• Talking About Race resources from the National Museum of African American History & Culture.
• On Being Podcast: Interview with Robin DiAngelo and Resmaa Menakem
• The Color of Fear (1994) Documentary
• Nice White Parents Podcast
• Raising Race Conscious Children Website & Resources
• Anti-Racism For Kids
• City of Ghosts (cartoon series) on Netflix
• Project Implicit
• Diverse Book Finder
February 2021: The History of Racism in Maine
• Maine Public Radio's series "Racism in New England" aired September 2020. Listen to the episode New England's Abolitionist History at Odds with Racist Realities.
• Price, H. H. Maine's Visible Black History. Gardiner, Tilbury House, 2006.
• Wall, Patricia Q. Lives of Consequence: Blacks in Early Kittery & Berwick in the Massachusetts Province of Maine. Portsmouth, Portsmouth Marine Society for the Black Heritage Trail of New Hampshire and the Portsmouth Historical Society, 2017.
• McBride, Bunny. Women of the Dawn. Lincoln, University of Nebraska Press, 1999.
• Warren, Wendy. New England Bound: Slavery and Colonization in Early America. New York, Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2017.
• Anchor of the Soul. Produced by Shoshana Hoose and Karine Odlin, Northeast Historic Film, 1994.
Please see additional resources HERE (Word doc), provided by the Maine Historical Society.
**While we are providing these virtual events FREE of charge, we are asking attendees to consider making voluntary contributions to help cover the costs associated with this program, including paying the presenters for their time and expertise on racial equity.
Upcoming Virtual Events
**MAY EVENT**
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Virtual Event Replays
**APRIL EVENT**
**MARCH EVENT**
**FEBRUARY EVENT (delayed to March)**
**ONGOING OPPORTUNITY**
21-Day Racial Equity Challenge
The Portland Regional Chamber developed a 21-Day Racial Equity Challenge for our members and the community. Challenges include - reading an article, listening to a podcast, watching a video, and more! These activities are structured for you to complete on your own time each day (approx. 15 minutes). Participation in an activity like this helps us discover how racial and social injustice impacts our community and allow us to identify ways to dismantle racism and other forms of discrimination.
TAKE THE CHALLENGE HERE
*While we are providing this series FREE of charge, we are asking attendees to consider making voluntary contributions to help cover the costs associated with this program, including paying the presenters for their time and expertise on racial equity.
Aug 13, 20257:30 AM - 8:30 AM
Aug 13, 20251:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Aug 15, 20256:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Aug 17, 20253:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Aug 18, 202510:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Aug 19, 202512:00 Noon - 1:00 PM
