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SIBA's 21-Day Racial Equity Challenge will take place from May 6th to May 26th. The Challenge is 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 2024 edition of the 21-Day Racial Equity Challenge includes updated material and resources added to address recent topics facing booksellers and members of the book industry, including the proliferation of book banning legislation, hostility targeting bookstores and bookstore staff, and heightened emotions in response to world events. A new searchable library of resources presented in the Challenge will also be available to participants, along with guidelines for bookstores to host the 21-Day Challenge within their own communities.

Why twenty-one days? 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.

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