SIBA’s 21-Day Racial Equity Challenge
February 14-March 7, 2022

SIBA's 21-Day Racial Equity Challengeis returning for 2022. This year's Challenge will take place from February 14th to March 7th. A self-guided program open to any member of the book industry, Challenge participants receive daily emails that contain prompts for reflection, discussion, and action. The prompts are also posted at a dedicated blog, along with resources and links in support of each day’s prompt and topic. Resources are actively curated to be relevant to contemporary issues.

The Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance (SIBA) stands against Racism. SIBA is committed to amplifying and supporting BIPOC voices in our membership and industry, and to offering DEI educational programming to members, SIBA staff, and Board.

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The Challenge’s Keynote Launch event will occur on February 7th at 7:00 PM EST:  In Pursuit of Racial Justice: A Conversation between Laura Coates and Steven Wright.  Laura Coates, the author of Just Pursuit: A Black Prosecutor’s Fight for Fairness, is a CNN senior legal analyst, SiriusXM host, and adjunct professor at the George Washington University School of Law. She'll be in conversation with Steven Wright, a clinical associate professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Law School, where he co-directs the Wisconsin Innocence Project.

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The 21-Day Racial Equity Challenge Blog

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SIBA’s 21-Day Challenge is designed specifically for its member booksellers and draws its format and many of its resources from the 21-Day Racial Equity Habit Building Challenge created by Food Solutions New England (FSNE), a regional collaborative network organized to support the emergence and continued viability of a New England food system that is a resilient driver of healthy food for all, racial equity, sustainable farming and fishing, and thriving communities. We are so grateful for their extraordinary work creating this program and making it available to other organizations.

SIBA would like to thank Kenrya Rankin, author of Words of Change: Anti-Racism, Powerful Voices, Inspiring Ideas and her publisher, Sasquatch Books, for providing most of the daily quotes and images of activists. SIBA also thanks Sourcebooks for their contributing sponsorship.

For more information about SIBA’s 21-Day Racial Equity Challenge, contact Linda-Marie Barrett, Executive Director, at lindamarie@sibaweb.com