As social distancing guidelines continue to prohibit in-person classes, meetings and gatherings, Osher staff members are curating this selection of virtual content. We believe these selections are interesting, instructional and engaging, and that will provide Osher members with a number of options to complement our remote learning opportunities and events.
If you have additional suggestions, please let us know at osher richmond. And if you encounter problems with any of these links, let us know so we can update the resource. The following books, articles or podcasts are recommended to learn more about race inequality and understanding race in our country.
Additionally, the University of Richmond has released a statement on recent acts of racial violence. Resources collected by the Center for Racial Justice in Education. One of the resources may also be helpful for those who have been fortunate or privileged enough to not have to think very hard about race and racism: What White Children Need to Know About Race from the National Association of Independent Schools.
For perhaps the most effective and focused insights into the present moment, this 18 minute video by Trevor Noah is good. For those interested in learning more and also thinking about how they might be allies and change makers:. A good bibliography for further exploration: Racial Equity Institute Bibliography. Bill Thomas explores ways to develop communities that are free to rebalance, redesign and rediscover community living, embracing the exquisite arc of life that stretches from birth to adulthood and beyond to elderhood.
Garth Newel Music Center β Virtual Events : A growing selection of virtual events including cooking demonstrations, music and performance premiers, socially distanced virtual concerts and much more. Hope Home : Violinist Daniel Hope spends this period of social distancing by performing chamber concerts from his living room in Berlin with specially invited guests.
