The FAS Office of Postdoctoral Affairs is committed to ensuring the inclusion and belonging of all members of the postdoctoral community, and to the ideals of racial equality and social justice.
Please find below relevant resources and reading materials:
Anonymous Reporting Hotline. Voice/report any concerns anonymously.
Racial Equity Resources--Responding to Hate Crimes
- Legal, social, and mental health resources for Asian and AAPI students, compiled by the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations
- Harvard staff resources from the Harvard Office for Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging
- Being Antiracist, from the National Museum of African American History and Culture’s website
- How Higher Ed Can Fight Racism: ‘Speak Up When It’s Hard,’ from the Chronicle of Higher Education
- How White Managers Can Respond to Anti-Black Violence, from Yale Insights
- Community Conversations: Two Pandemics, from SEAS and the FAS Division of Science (related Gazette article)
- How to Make this Moment the Turning Point for Real Change, by President Barack Obama, including links to Anguish and Action and New Era of Public Safety: An Advocacy Toolkit for Fair, Safe, and Effective Community Policing
Healing and Support Resources
- Healing Action Toolkit, from Black Lives Matter (along with other resources)
- Toolkits and Resources, from the Black Emotional and Mental Health Collective
- Managing Stress After Community Violence and other resources from Harvard’s EAP
- How you can be a better coworker to your black colleagues right now, from The Lily / The Washington Post
- Black Mental Health Resources, from the National Alliance on Mental Illness
- The Life of a Black Academic: Tired and Terrorized, from Inside Higher Ed
- Being a Black Ph.D. Student Following George Floyd’s Murder, from Inside Higher Ed
Additional Reading and Listening
- Resources and Reading on Racial Justice, Racial Equity and Anti-Racism, from the IARA Project
- An Antiracist Reading List, by Ibram X. Kendi
- Black History, Black Stories: 7 Books That Center Our Legacies for Longer Than a Month, by Maiysha Kai
- 13 Books You Should Read About Black Lives, from The Cut
- Resources for Race, Equity, Anti-Racism, and Inclusion, from We Need Diverse Books
- Black and Brown Students in Stem. Resources prepared by Dr. Terrell Morton, University of Missouri-Columbia
- Podcasts including Seeing White, 1619, and Code Switch