Anti-Racism Research & Resource Guide

Support the Work & Get Involved!

This page includes a variety of links to organizations, resources, and materials that can help support activism on campus, within the local community, and at the national level focused on issues related to social justice, racial justice, and anti-racism.

Binghamton University Organizations

• Multicultural Resource Center
  "The mission of the Multicultural Resource Center is to educate the campus community through initiatives designed to increase awareness and understanding of cultural diversity, its significance in the advancement of all fields of endeavor and in navigating our world."

• Q Center
  "The Q Center provides an array of resources, educational opportunities and social justice initiatives designed to foster a campus environment that is inclusive and supportive of all sexual orientations, gender identities and gender expressions. A home away from home, the Center seeks to be a safe environment where gender and sexual diversity is affirmed and community is fostered. Center programming supports and empowers students, faculty and staff contributing to personal, scholarly and professional success."

• UDiversity Educational Institute

  "The mission of the UDiversity Educational Institute is to work collaboratively with all constituency groups to promote a campus climate that values diversity, equity and inclusion. The Institute's commitment to social justice enhances the values of Binghamton University by fostering understanding and community through a broad array of programs and initiatives designed to enhance our academic, residential, and work environments."

   
• Harriet Tubman Center for the Study of Freedom and Equality

  "Our mission is to conduct interdisciplinary research on the legacy of slavery and freedom in American history and public policy; finally, we hope to enhance Binghamton University's reputation as a place for innovation, cutting edge research and practical solutions to longstanding historical problems."

   
• Institute for Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention

  "The Institute for Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention brings people together from across the University and from around the world to work toward our collective mission to increase understanding, develop commitment, and build capacity for effective prevention of genocide and other mass atrocities."

   
• List of Cultural Student Organizations @ Binghamton University

  List of cultural Student Organizations that are listed at Binghamton University through B-Engaged

   
• Division of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

  "In partnership with the campus community, DEI aims to foster a diverse and inclusive culture that is welcoming for all students, faculty, staff and the Greater Binghamton community."

   
• Student Affairs Divisional Diversity Initiatives (SADDI)

  "The SADDI Committee is a cross-section of professional staff, faculty and students that convenes monthly to strategically identify barriers that impede the success of underrepresented minority (URM) students. Culturally sensitive strategies and recommendations are sought for implementation with the divisional diversity officer’s (DDO) advisement. Initiatives will collaboratively support the goals of Binghamton University’s Division of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DDEI)."

   
• Center for Civic Engagement - List of Local Organizations
  List of organizations from the Center of Civic Engagement, with contact information and organization descriptions included. Can provide information about how students, faculty, and staff can get engaged with local grassroots organizations. For more info about the Center for Civic Engagement, visit their website here.

• Faculty and Staff of Color Association (FSCA)

  "The mission of the FSCA is to foster a greater sense of community and mutual support among the faculty and staff of color through mentoring and networking in an effort to provide an organized support system that will enhance the cultural diversity within the University, as well as enhance and support the academic mission of the University."

   

Local Organizations

• American Civic Association
  "The American Civic Association is a nonprofit organization that is committed to helping immigrants and refugees start a new life in our community while preserving their ethnic and cultural diversity."

• Citizen Action of NY - Southern Tier Chapter

  "Citizen Action of New York is a grassroots membership organization taking on big issues that are at the center of transforming society."

   

• Broome County Urban League

  "Focuses on youth through after-school and summer programs, tutoring/mentoring, technology classes, and workforce development. In addition, they provide family support, food, clothing, housing and utility bill assistance, as well as comprehensive referral services to other community agencies and private industries."

   
• Broome-Tioga NAACP Chapter

  "For more than a century the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People has worked to ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights of all persons and to eliminate race-based discrimination. Inspired by the force and commitment of The Call of 1909, which denounced the growing oppression of people of color and mobilized thousands to work to bring this discrimination to an end, the NAACP seeks to establish a strategic direction as it embarks on developing The New Call for the 21st Century."

   

National Organizations

• Black Lives Matter
  "#BlackLivesMatter was founded in 2013 in response to the acquittal of Trayvon Martin’s murderer. Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation, Inc. is a global organization in the US, UK, and Canada, whose mission is to eradicate white supremacy and build local power to intervene in violence inflicted on Black communities by the state and vigilantes. By combating and countering acts of violence, creating space for Black imagination and innovation, and centering Black joy, we are winning immediate improvements in our lives."

• The American Civil Liberties Association (ACLU) - Racial Justice

  "The ACLU Racial Justice Program aims to preserve and extend constitutionally guaranteed rights to people who have historically been denied their rights on the basis of race."

   
• The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC)

  "The SPLC is a catalyst for racial justice in the South and beyond, working in partnership with communities to dismantle white supremacy, strengthen intersectional movements, and advance the human rights of all people."

   
• Movement for Black Lives (M4BL)

  "The Movement for Black Lives (M4BL) formed in December of 2014, was created as a space for Black organizations across the country to debate and discuss the current political conditions, develop shared assessments of what political interventions were necessary in order to achieve key policy, cultural and political wins, convene organizational leadership in order to debate and co-create a shared movement wide strategy. Under the fundamental idea that we can achieve more together than we can separately.

   
• National Association of Diversity Officers in Higher Education

  "The ACLU Racial Justice Program aims to preserve and extend constitutionally guaranteed rights to people who have historically been denied their rights on the basis of race."

   
• Movement for Black Lives (M4BL)

  "The Movement for Black Lives (M4BL) formed in December of 2014, was created as a space for Black organizations across the country to debate and discuss the current political conditions, develop shared assessments of what political interventions were necessary in order to achieve key policy, cultural and political wins, convene organizational leadership in order to debate and co-create a shared movement wide strategy. Under the fundamental idea that we can achieve more together than we can separately.

Local

• Support Black Business 607: Black Businesses in the Southern Tier
• Binghamton Area BIPOC-owned local businesses: curated by Binghamton's Multicultural Resource Center
• Black Business Owners in the Ithaca Area: A list of Black entrepreneurs, businesses and organizations near Ithaca, NY.

National