Antiracism : A Guide to Stories, Perspectives, and Connections

"Racially restrictive covenants—which barred the conveyance of property to African Americans—were used by real estate developers and white citizens associations to create and maintain racial barriers. Mapping Segregation in DC is a resource for historians, activists, educators, students, and journalists, and provides essential context for conversations around race and gentrification in DC. The project's maps unveil historical patterns that would otherwise remain invisible and largely unknown."

"This site is designed to foster active engagement with the digital collection, Preserve the Baltimore Uprising. It contains a series of five curriculum sets for classroom teachers, community organizers, camp counselors, and others. The teacher guides, worksheets and supplementary materials provide a basic foundation in the theories and methods of oral history –the collection of first-person stories and accounts that can shed light on the meaning and experience of significant events."

Did you know that at least 84 reported lynchings occurred in Virginia in the 20th century, including at least 12 in Northern Virginia? (Source: Lynching in America tool, at link above.) This community resource from the EJI (Equal Justice Initiative) provides opportunities to locally memorialize documented victims of racial violence and to learn about lynching history and memorials to lynching victims in communities across the country, including in our Northern Virginia communities.

Contact Lieutenant Weinstein, NOVA Police's director of community outreach, and invite him to answer your questions and listen to your thoughts about proactive positive police engagement, either by appointment, in class, or in a standalone event. From Lt. Weinstein: "The best thing is interaction and understanding. The best way to discourage stereotypes is to have an open dialogue and that’s one of the reasons that we have such an active outreach program, to give people an opportunity to find out how the police do what we do, why, what we can and can’t do, what are the constitutional safeguards that prevent the officer from denying you your expectation of privacy. And at the same time I think it’s healthy for the police to interact with students so they have an opportunity in a friendly, non-compliance-oriented setting to ask us a question, and for us to gauge what’s on their mind."