The following is a compilation of diversity and anti-racism resources, recommendations, and initiatives shared by CPR members and friends.
ADR Initiatives/Resources
- CPR’s Diversity & Inclusion Initiatives
- Growing the Pipeline through Alternative Pathways
- CPR/LCLD/FINRA program: two-year mentoring and apprentice program
- CPR’s “Young Lawyer Rule”
- Young Attorneys in Dispute Resolution (Y-ADR)
- ADR Diversity Survey
- AAA’s Diversity and Inclusion Initiatives
- The AAA Higginbotham Fellows Program: one-year mentorship program for up-and-coming diverse ADR practitioners
- “Putting Diversity into (Your) Practice” blog post
- JAMS’s Diversity and Inclusion Initiatives
- Diversity and Inclusion Arbitration Clause, Inclusion Rider
- NYIAC Diversity Corner
- ICC Diversity in arbitration
- ADR Inclusion Network
- American Bar Association Resolution 105
- CPR Speaks coverage, “American Bar Association Adopts Resolution 105 to Promote Diversity in ADR” by Franco Gevaerd
- Bayer U.S.’s approach to selecting neutrals: require that the panel include at least one person of color and one woman (instruction given internally and to external law firms)
Books/Articles/Reading Lists
- “Diversity, Inc.: The Failed Promise of a Billion Dollar Business” by Pamela Newkirk
- “Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor” by Layla F. Saad
- “Shades Of Freedom: Racial Politics And Presumptions Of The American Legal Process” and “In The Matter Of Color: Race And The American Legal Process: The Colonial Period” by Judge A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr.
- “Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America” by Dr. Michael Eric Dyson
- “White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard For White People to Talk About Racism” by Robin DiAngelo, PhD
- CNN Town Hall on racial inequality and coronavirus with prominent black mayors
- Discussion of police reform legislation
- How to Change Policing in America, by Sherrilyn Ifill, President and Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund
- Hyperallergic, “Required Reading” by Hrag Vartanian
- Pepperdine Dispute Resolution Law Journal, “Measuring Diversity in the ADR Field: Some Observations and Challenges Regarding Transparency, Metrics and Empirical Research” by Maria R. Volpe
- Revolt Black News, “Dealing with racism and microaggression in the workplace – Knock it off, Karen”
- Senate Judiciary hearing on police use of force
- The New York Times, “You Want a Confederate Monument? My Body Is a Confederate Monument” by Caroline Randall Williams
- The New York Times Magazine, “What Is Owed” by Nikole Hannah-Jones
- Time Magazine, “Corporations Say ‘Black Lives Matter.’ Here’s What They Need to Do to Show They Mean It” by Pamela Newkirk
- American Bar Association: 21-Day Racial Equity Habit-Building Challenge
- NBC News, Best Black queer books, according to Black LQBTQ leaders
- New York Public Library, Schomburg Center’s Black Liberation Reading List
- Pen America, Black Literature – Past, Present, and Future: A Reading List
- W Magazine, Read & Resist: W’s Daily Briefing for June 26
Podcasts
- 1619, The New York Times
- Code Switch, NPR
- Fresh Air, NPR, “James Baldwin / Filmmaker Raoul Peck / Black Athletes & Social Justice”
- Intersectionality Matters with Kimberlé Crenshaw
- Stay Tuned, “The Justice Archives”
- We the People Podcast: Live at the NCC: Policing, Protests, and the Constitution Part 1, Theodore McKee speaking at the National Constitution Center
Videos/Films
- Dr. Michael Eric Dyson Discusses Civil Unrest Across America, The Late Late Show with James Corden
- “I Am Not Your Negro” by James Baldwin and Raoul Peck
- Lawyers with Bias, An Interview with National Bar Association President Paulette Brown
- Live with Carnegie Hall: Juneteenth Celebration, presentation in collaboration with Healing of the Nations Foundation
- Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival, Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II
- Revolt Black News, Fight for Black women, honor us, amplify our voices and say our names
- Toni Morrison, “The Pieces I Am”
- Where Do We Go From Here: A Conversation Led by Oprah
Additional Resources
- #8toAbolition initiative to bring change to the police
- Beveridge & Diamond’s Anti-Racism and Allyship Resource Starter Kit
- Black Perspectives blog, “Black Ecologies”
- Beyoncé’s Directory of Black Owned Businesses
- Lawyers for Good Government, Racial Justice
- Reverend Al Sharpton, the National Action Network
- Stradley Ronon’s message of outrage and commitment
- The National Bar Association, President Alfreda Robinson
CPR Speaks 