FSNE 21-Day Racial Equity Habit-Building Challenge Resources

When you join the annual FSNE 21-Day Racial Equity Habit Building Challenge, you receive curated resources every day for 21 days to build the skill, will, and courage to advance racial equity in our food system and beyond. Below, you’ll find related resources to learn more and dive even deeper.

Overviews of Race and Racism

Systems and Structural Racism

Implicit Bias, Stereotype Threat

Whiteness and White Privilege

Food Systems Specific

Food Systems: Focus on Food Security, Hunger, and Nutrition

Climate Change, Race, and Food Systems

For Conversations with Children

Food and Faith

Tools to Implement

Love, Healing, and Health

Some Organizations and Sites to Check Out

Action and Engagement Ideas

  • This can be the hardest part, especially for people new to racial justice work. Engaging in racially mixed settings can trigger age-old power and privilege dynamics. The goal is to enter the process to learn and bridge knowledge gaps, not to take over, lead, and impose solutions.
  • Stay engaged even when your mind and body start sending you signals to shrink or walk away.
  • Ask clarifying questions.
  • Acknowledge what you don’t know.
  • Join with many other organizations and individuals to show support and demand racial justice and equity for all. Learn more about Hands Off! and the many organizations involved in these community-building movements [added 2025]
  • Journal to process emotions such as shame and anger that can guide you to deeper self-awareness about how power and privilege impact you.
  • Find a mentor within your own racial group to support and guide your growth.
  • Take a course or workshop. Connect with organizations listed above and see what opportunities they offer. The network of people you discover may point you to a class, or finding a class first may point you to a network.
  • Call your local representatives and congresspeople and share your concerns about racial injustices. Learn about and support policies put forward by The Movement for Black Lives.
  • Prepare yourself to interrupt racial jokes and racist comments. Click here for some advice about how.
  • Organize a film night or book group with family, friends, colleagues, or neighbors to learn and discuss together the dynamics and realities of privilege and power.
  • Attend an event in your area where issues of power and privilege are being addressed. Universities and bookstores often host speakers who draw the network you’ll want to plug into to keep engaged and motivated.
  • Join the Poor People’s Campaign to learn more and take action on poverty and its call for moral revival.