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Sadly, we continue to witness racial tensions in our country. The TED Talk for September is How Racial Bias Works – And How to Disrupt It. This powerful talk by psychologist Jennifer L. Eberhardt delves into how our brains make sense of the world by creating categories. This allows us to recognize patterns and make quick decisions. Dr. Eberhardt explains how this ability feeds our unconscious bias which can lead to unfairly targeting Black people at all levels of society. This talk was selected because Dr. Eberhardt offers a solution that we can incorporate that will assist us in shifting the categories, thus changing our biases toward others to actively interrupt the troubling issue of racism.

Dr. Jennifer L. Eberhardt is a social psychologist at Stanford University, where she conducts research on race and inequality. As noted in the TED Talk bio; “Through interdisciplinary collaborations and a wide-ranging array of methods -- from laboratory studies to novel field experiments -- Jennifer L. Eberhardt has revealed the startling, and often dispiriting, extent to which racial imagery and judgments shape actions and outcomes both in our criminal justice system and our neighborhoods, schools and workplaces.” In her work, Dr. Eberhardt has highlighted the negative impact of racial bias on all of us through science. She is the author of Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice that Shapes What We, See, Think, Do.

You may also be interested in a TED Talk interview with Ibarm X. Kendi on The Difference Between Being Not Racist and Antiracist. https://www.ted.com/talks/ibram_x_kendi_the_difference_between_being_not_racist_and_antiracist