UNC/North Carolina-Specific Resources

Online Resources

• Accessibility, Resources and Services (UNC)
• Allied Health Sciences: PhD and Post-Doc Resources
• Apoyo – rapid response support system for community needs
• Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC) Mental Health Awareness Month events-view the full list
  • Self-Care Mindfulness Meditation with Jonny Gerkin – Mondays, 12:15 – 12:40pm
  • Self-Care Mindfulness Meditation with Bree Kalb – Tuesdays and Thursdays 4:00-4:30pm
  • Gentle Yoga with Gillings Culture of Health – Mondays 12:00 – 12:30pm
  • Inhaling Positivity Mid-Day Meditation – Wednesdays, 12:30-12:45pm
• Blue Ridge Pride – To promote equality, safety, and quality of life for western North Carolina’s LGBTQ and allied communities, working as a united community through advocacy, celebration, education and service.
• Carolina Black Caucus (CBC)
• Carolina Cupboard – UNC campus food pantry supporting students
• Campaign for Southern Equality – The Campaign for Southern Equality is working to build a South where LGBTQ people are equal in every part of life. A South where your zipcode doesn’t determine your rights. Where all of us are free to be who we truly are and love who we truly love.
• Center for Racial Justice in Education – The Center for Racial Justice in Education’s mission is to train and empower educators to dismantle patterns of racism and injustice in our schools and communities.
• Color of Education – seeks to build bridges across the fields of research, policy, and practice and bring together the knowledge and perspectives of communities, educators, policymakers, experts and other key stakeholders focused on achieving racial equity and dismantling systemic racism in education across the state of North Carolina.
• DACA/Undocumented Resource Team – UNC campus-wide team appointed by Vice Provost to support undocumented TarHeels
• Data to Study Racial Inequity | University of North Carolina Libraries
• Desegregation of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Certificate Training Program- The program’s curriculum offers workshops and trainings designed to broaden awareness about Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion topics among the SOM faculty/staff and deepen engagement with and between individuals in the SOM at all levels – from patients to leadership. The workshops offered, as part of the certificate program, address a broad array of DEI topics, including those related to race and ethnicity, gender and sexual orientation, culture and religion, socioeconomic status, and more. 
• El Centro Hispano – Grassroots Latinx organization providing education, support and healthcare services
• Equity in Teaching Institute – During the two days of our institute, we will reflect on who our students are, how our courses can equitably meet our students’ needs, and what equity in teaching means to us.
• T­­­he Faculty of Color and Indigenous Faculty Group
• Graduate Student Diversity
  • IME – Initiative for Minority Excellence
  • QGAPS – Queer Graduate and Professional Students
• Implicit Bias – UNC Health Sciences Library provides resources on implicit bias, also called unconscious bias
• Indigenous Peoples in North Carolina
• The Innovation Project – brings together forward-thinking North Carolina school district superintendents to find and implement innovative and transformative practices in public education so that students and their communities can thrive.
  • Courageous Leadership Webinar Series
    • 1868: The Coalition for Justice
    • 1901: White Supremacy Seeks Inequity
    • 1956: The State at a Crossroads 2 Years After Brown v. Board
• Integration at Carolina Law (website and paper)- The story of how UNC’s School of Law was integrated (really important to understand how discrimination is perpetuated, experienced and persists AND strategies to dismantle): 
  • the strategy, the experiences of those that led integration
  • how integration was opposed/fought and specifically how it was accomplished
• James Cates | Remembering and Reckoning
• Latino/a Health for Health Care Providers
• Latinx Immigration and Life in North Carolina
• LGBTQI Health Research & Practice – Open Access & UNC Chapel Hill subscribed library resources to support research, clinical practice and education with LGBT patients
• SAFE at UNC | Awareness, Education, and Prevention
• Safe Schools NC – Safe Schools NC is a statewide non-profit organization dedicated to creating a safe and positive learning environment for all students and educators in North Carolina, with an emphasis on actual or perceived sexual orientation, gender identity, and gender expression.
• The Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity –  a scholarly collaborative that studies the causes and consequences of inequality and develops remedies for these disparities and their adverse effects.
• Southerners on New Ground (SONG) – Regional Queer Liberation organization
• Speak Up Carolina – Conversations for Community: Toolkit
• Student Protest Movements at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• Students United for Immigrant Equality (SUIE) – UNC Campus Y committee advocating for immigrant issues to be recognized as human rights issues, stressing equality of all people regardless of national origin or documentation status
• The UNC Center for Health Equity Research
  • Equity Resources
• UNC Office for Diversity and Inclusion
• UNC Health Sciences Library – Promoting Diversity & Inclusion in Teaching & Learning
• UNC School of Medicine Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
  • Trainings
  • Events
  • Resources
• UNC  Student Health Action Coalition (SHAC) – Comprehensive health care and social needs support, completely free of cost (Wednesdays 6-10pm at Carrboro Community Health Center 301 Lloyd St.)
• UndocuCarolina – Collaborative effort by Carolina Latinx Ctr, LatinxEd, students, faculty, staff & community members to increase visibility, support, and resources for members of the Carolina community living with the effects of undocumentation.
• The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | Faculty Hub | Racism and Equity
• University Commission on History, Race, and a Way Forward
• U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Minority Health
• Voices of the Enslaved in Special Collections Wilson Library

Read

• Centering Equity and Community in the Recovery of the COVID-19 Pandemic
• The False Cause: Fraud, Fabrication, and White Supremacy in Confederate Memory by Adam H. Domby
• Fragile Democracy: The Struggle Over Race and Voting Rights in North Carolina
• A Guide to Active Listening, SafeSchoolsNC
• The New Southern University: Academic Freedom and Liberalism at UNC- Chapel Hill by Charles Holden 
• UNC A to Z: What Every TarHeel Needs to Know About the First State University by N. Graham & C. Moore
• Unpacking Young Adults’ Experiences of Race- and Gender-Based Microaggressions

Watch/Listen

• Constitutional Tales (from NC State Board of Education meeting) (audio only)
  • Part 1 (Starts at 10:40)
  • Part 2
• A Conversation On Health Inequity (UNC Health Foundation)
• Re/Collecting Chapel Hill: James Cates. Silent Sam Part 2. – This Re/Collecting Chapel Hill podcast episode shares the story of James Cates. The episode features Mike Ogle’s research and the voices of community members who knew Cates, including those with him when he died.
• UNC Health Science Library Off the Shelf Webinar Series
  • Off the Shelf: Author Talk with Jessica Ingram -In her book “Road Through Midnight: A Civil Rights Memorial,” images of those places are interspersed with oral histories from victims’ families and investigative journalists, as well as pages from newspapers and FBI files and other ephemera. Ingram unlocks powerful and complex histories to reframe these commonplace landscapes as sites of both remembrance and resistance. She transforms the way we regard both what has happened and what’s happening now—as the fight for civil rights goes on and memorialization has become the literal subject of contested cultural and societal ground.
  • Off the Shelf: Author Talk with Tanya Harmer and Katherine Marino
    Tanya Harmer, author of “Beatriz Allende: A Revolutionary Life in Cold War Latin America.”
    Katherine Marino, author of “Feminism for the Americas: The Making of an International Human Rights Movement”
  • Off the Shelf: Author Talk with Dan Royles
    Dan Royles discusses his book, “To Make the Wounded Whole: The African American Struggle Against HIV/AIDS”
  • Off the Shelf: Author Talk with Tyler D. Parry, Scheduled for November 19, 2020
    Tyler D. Parry discusses his book “Jumping the Broom: The Surprising Multicultural Origins of a Black Wedding Ritual”

Centers, Caucuses, Organizations, and Communities

• Allies for Minorities and Women in Science and Engineering
• American Indian Center
• Asia Focused Organizations in North Carolina
• The Association for Women Faculty and Professionals
• Black Graduate and Professional Student Association
• Carolina American Indian Caucus.
• Carolina Asia Center
• Carolina Black Caucus
• Carolina Center for Jewish Studies
• Carolina Center for the Study of the Middle East and Muslim Civilizations
• Carolina Latinx Center
• The Carolina Veterans Resource Center (CVRC)
• Carolina Women’s Center (CWC)
• Duke-UNC Consortium for Middle East Studies
• First Nations Graduate Circle – an organization of American Indian graduate and professional students at UNC-Chapel Hill.
• The Freedom Center for Social Justice (Charlotte area)
• Friendship Association of Chinese Students and Scholars (FACSS)
• Guilford Green Foundation & LGBTQ Center
• Honduran Health Alliance (HHA)
• Islamic Medical Association (IMA)
• Latino Medical Student Association (LMSA)
• Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ) Center
  • Undergraduate Student Organizations
  • Graduate/Professional Student Organizations
• LGBTQ Center of Durham
• LGBT Center of Raleigh
• Men of Color at UNC
• Mi Pueblo
• Minority Student Caucus
• North Carolina Racial Equality Network
• North Star LGBTQ Community Center
• PFLAG Spartanburg
• Research Triangle Global Gender Center
• Society for the Advancement of Chicanos/Hispanics and Native Americans in Science
• Stigma Free Carolina
• Time Out Youth (Charlotte Area)
• Women NC

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