By Jena Ashby, Director 8twelve Coalition MUNCIE, IN The 8twelve Coalition was recently awarded an Advancing Racial Equity Collection Development Grant from Indiana Humanities with funds from Lilly Endowment, Inc. The goal of this grant is to help Hoosiers think, read, and talk about racial injustice and systemic racism. The books purchased with this grant allow for a lending library to be available at the new 8twelve Coalition office at 1424 S. Hoyt Ave Several of the selected books were bought in.
A BBC guide has told parents to teach their toddlers about white privilege and check their own internal biases if their children have no Black or Brown friends .