Like many, at Zylo, we are on a journey towards confronting our own unconscious biases together.

As a company, we are committed to anti-racism. The first steps in transforming our behaviors from non-racist to anti-racist are acknowledgment and education.

We are spending Juneteenth kicking off our education efforts. We are working with an Empathy Consultant to learn how to recognize and connect with the emotions and perspectives of others.

This connected understanding helps us communicate and take action in a way that is sincere and beneficial to ourselves, our company, and our local and global communities.

We will also be providing additional resources in the coming weeks with dedicated time from the company, including Slack channels for meaningful discussion. We will continue to learn, to connect, and to share our experiences as we embrace anti-racism.

Here are some of the resources that we have identified as we take these first steps. We share them here in hopes you find them helpful.

Resources

Media for adults

• Talking About Race Toolkit
• The Black-White Wealth Gap
• Brene Brown podcast with Ibram X. Kendi on how to be an anti-racist
• How to be an Anti Racist by Ibram X. Kendi
• Do The Work: An Anti-racist Reading List
• White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk about Racism by Robin DiAngelo
• Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do by Jennifer L. Eberhardt
• A People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn
• 13th (Netflix documentary)
• Just Cause (free feature-length film via Amazon Prime)
• Ted Talk- How to Build an Anti Racist World
• The Black Book by Middleton A. Harris and Toni Morrison
• Racism 101 by Nikki Giovanni
• Envisioning Emancipation: Black Americans and the End of Slavery by Barbara Krauthamer and Deborah Willis

Articles and resources for parenting

• Talking about Racism with White Kids is Not Enough
• Not Sure How to Talk to Your Kids About Race? Here’s How to Start

Media for kids

• 4 Meaningful Ways to Celebrate Juneteenth with Your Kids
• A Kids Book About Racism by Jelani Memory
• All American Boys by Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely
• Anti-racist Baby by Ibram X. Kendi
• We’re Different, We’re the Same (Sesame Street)
• 15 Kid-Friendly Movies to Help Build a Conversation About Race and Racism
• Why White Parents Need to Do More Than Talk to Their Kids About Racism
• Not Sure How to Talk to Your Kids About Race? Here’s How to Start
• Talking to kids about race
• How to Talk to Kids about Race and Racism

Courses, Webinars, and Education Resources

• Free #DotheWork 30-day course
• Leading through Change Hosted by Salesforce
• Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man,
• Justice in June
• Ted Talk: How to Build an Anti-racist World
• Yale virtual course on African American Studies

Ideas for actions to take and organizations to support

• What White People Can Do for Racial Justice 
• 20 Actions White people & non-Black POCs in Corporate (and otherwise) can take to show up for Black People right now
• Where you can donate for Black Lives Matter
• Organizations for Racial Justice and Equality (Thanks to PagerDuty for compiling this list)