Week two of SIBA's 21-Day Racial Equity Challenge focuses on assessing (and re-assessing) your bookstore or business with an eye towards diversity, equity, and inclusion. How does a business incorporate anti-racist principles into its ethos and day to day operations?

"Community" is fundamental to indie bookstores. With the ongoing divisiveness of public discourse and the rise of book banning, the topics and tools in this week of the Challenge are especially valuable:

• Continuum on Becoming an Anti-Racist Multicultural Organization
• Caucuses and Affinity Groups
• Lee and Low 2023 Diversity in Publishing Survey

SIBA has kept the 21-Day Challenge registration open for booksellers who would still like to join in. Booksellers can also participate by visiting the 21-Day Challenge Blog, where each day's prompt is posted when it is emailed out.

See also:

21-Day Challenge Edelweiss Collection: Over thirty books are mentioned or discussed in the 21-Day Challenge, making this collection a foundation for an Anti-Racist reference library.

DEI Resource Library: All the tools, documents, video links, and resources included in the 21-Day Challenge are also in its companion Resource Library.