Amid escalating clashes between protesters and police, discussing
   race—from the inequity embedded in American institutions to the United
   States’ long, painful history of anti-black violence—is an essential
   step in sparking meaningful societal change. To support those
   struggling to begin these difficult conversations, the Smithsonian’s
   National Museum of African American History and Culture recently
   launched a “Talking About Race” portal featuring “tools and guidance”
   for educators, parents, caregivers and other people committed to
   equity.

   “Talking About Race” joins a vast trove of resources from the
   Smithsonian Institution dedicated to understanding what Bunch describes
   as America’s “tortured racial past.” From Smithsonian magazine articles
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   racism to the National Museum of American History’s collection of Black
   History Month resources for educators and a Sidedoor podcast on the
   Tulsa Race Massacre, these 158 resources are designed to foster an
   equal society, encourage commitment to unbiased choices and promote
   antiracism in all aspects of life. Listings are bolded and organized by
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   to the findings, let alone its suggestion of aggressive government
   spending aimed at leveling the playing field. Instead, the country
   embraced a different cause: space travel. The day after the 1969 moon
   landing, the leading black paper the New York Amsterdam News ran a
   story stating, “Yesterday, the moon. Tomorrow, maybe us.”
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   Today, scientific racism—grounded in such faulty practices as eugenics
   and the treatment of race “as a crude proxy for myriad social and
   environmental factors,” writes Ramin Skibba—persists despite
   overwhelming evidence that race has only social, not biological,
   meaning. Black scholars including Mamie Phipps Clark, a psychologist
   whose research on racial identity in children helped end segregation in
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   people. Local authorities, argues historian Roberta Senechal, were
   “ineffectual at best, complicit at worst.”
   Cloud of smoke over Greenwood During the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921,
   mobs destroyed almost 40 blocks of a neighborhood known as "Black Wall
   Street." (Library of Congress)

   False accusations also sparked a July 1919 race riot in Washington,
   D.C. and the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921, which was most recently
   dramatized in the HBO series “Watchmen.” As African American History
   Museum curator Paul Gardullo tells Smithsonian, tensions related to
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   did.”

   Over the course of two days in spring 1921, the Tulsa Race Massacre
   claimed the lives of an estimated 300 black Tulsans and displaced
   another 10,000. Mobs burned down at least 1,256 residences, churches,
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Listen to Sidedoor: A Smithsonian Podcast

   The second season of Sidedoor told the story of the Tulsa Race Massacre
   of 1921.

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   Economic injustice also led to the East St. Louis Race War of 1917.
   This labor dispute-turned-deadly found “people’s houses being set
   ablaze, … people being shot when they tried to flee, some trying to
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   discrimination experienced by individuals who belong to multiple
   minority groups. As theorist Kimberlé Crenshaw explains in a video
   published by NMAAHC, these classifications run the gamut from race to
   gender, gender identity, class, sexuality and disability. A black woman
   who identifies as a lesbian, for instance, may face prejudice based on
   her race, gender or sexuality.

   Crenshaw, who coined the term intersectionality in 1989, explains the
   concept best: “Consider an intersection made up of many roads,” she
   says in the video. “The roads are the structures of race, gender,
   gender identity class, sexuality, disability. And the traffic running
   through those roads are the practices and policies that discriminate
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   Individuals striving to become better allies by educating themselves
   and taking decisive action have an array of options for getting
   started. Begin with NMAAHC’s “Talking About Race” portal, which
   features sections on being antiracist, whiteness, bias, social
   identities and systems of oppression, self-care, race and racial
   identity, the historical foundations of race, and community building.
   An additional 139 items—from a lecture on the history of racism in
   America to a handout on white supremacy culture and an article on the
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   resources guide.
   NMAAHC exterior The National Museum of African American History and
   Culture recently launched a "Talking About Race" portal. (Alan
   Karchmer)

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   used his platform to denounce racism. (The scientist’s advocacy is
   admittedly complicated by travel diaries that reveal his deeply
   troubling views on race.)

   Einstein’s near-contemporary, a white novelist named John Howard