PBD Staff Resources

This page is an evolving list of resources for PBD staff to enhance their competencies on diversity, inclusion, antiracism, and other equity topics. 

I welcome your additions to this list.  Just email your recommendations to me.

We're asking for individuals to take action to change how we think and talk about mental health so people with mental health struggles know that they have nothing to be ashamed of and it's OK to ask for help.
                                       U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy

Mental Health Resources

  1. Mental Health at Work
Building the Next Generation of Code Professionals in Brown and Black Communities

ICC Pulse Podcast, Episode 40

Training the next generation in black and brown communities and how we can increase awareness and education about the building safety profession.

Poverty and Related Links

Roanoke Local

Urban Renewal in Roanoke

Street by Street Block by Block How Urban Renewal Uprooted Black Roanoke

Racial Remapping in Roanoke

The Invisible Inner City Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5

Decoding LGBTQIA+

Podcasts

1619*

Code Switch

Still Processing

Pod Save the People

Race Matters

Feminists Ruin Everything

Sexism and the City with Jan Fran

Movies

Just Mercy*

The Hate U Give*

I Am Not Your Negro*

12 Years a Slave

Selma

If Beale Street Could Talk

Do the Right Thing (Many would say anything by Spike Lee)

Dear White People 

Ken Burns: The Central Park Five

13th

BlacKkKlansman

When They See Us*

Get Out

Fruitvale Station

A Raisin in the Sun*

Some Best-Of Lists

https://hbr.org/2020/06/confronting-racism-at-work-a-reading-list

https://www.fastcompany.com/90278273/the-10-best-books-for-battling-your-sexist-workplace