News and Articles

Cypress Creek team recognizes anniversary of COVID-19 by raising $23,008 to address hunger

Volt Energy Announces Innovative Environmental Justice Power Purchase Agreement with Microsoft

Nextracker Selected for Fast Company’s 2021 Established Excellence Category for World Changing Ideas Award

Black clean energy entrepreneurs should be at the heart of the American Jobs Plan

Nextracker Awarded Ecovadis Silver Medal for Sustainability, Transparency, and Equity Rating

Volt Energy CEO Elected to Executive Committee of Solar Energy Industries Association Board

Nextracker Earns ISO-9001:2015 Certification for its Quality Management System

Nautilus Solar Energy Opens Maryland's Largest Community Solar Project Dedicated to Providing Over Half the Power Generated to Low-to-Moderate Income Residents

Solar Industry Launches Diverse Suppliers Database

Plante Moran’s Tech Services Team Gets Recognition from Computerworld and Their Colleagues

Celebrating Pride and Empowering Employees to Share Their Voice

Sol Systems Partners with KKR to Scale Impact-Focused Renewable Energy Solutions

Top solar organizations launch Renewables Forward, a diversity and inclusion initiative

Top solar organizations launch Renewables Forward, a diversity and inclusion initiative

Sunrise brief: Renewables Forward publishes inclusiveness handbook

Solar firms unite to launch diversity and inclusion initiative

Solar Executives Launch Nationwide ‘Renewables Forward’ Initiative to Tackle Diversity and Inclusion

Solar Executives Launch Nationwide ‘Renewables Forward’ Initiative to Tackle Diversity and Inclusion

Renewables Forward launches diversity, equity, and inclusion human resources playbook

Renewables Forward launches diversity, equity, and inclusion human resources playbook

Renewables Forward releases HR playbook for energy companies to help with diversity and inclusion

It’s Time for the Solar Industry to Act on Diversity and Inclusion

5 predictions for the corporate renewable energy market in 2021

Books

Uncomfortable Conversations With A Black Man

Emmanuel Acho

Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging Library - Harvard University

Harvard University

Black Feminist Thought

Patricia Hill Collins

Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower

Brittney Cooper

Heavy: An American Memoir

Kiese Laymon

How To Be An Antiracist

Ibram X. Kendi

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Maya Angelou

Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption

Bryan Stevenson

Me & White Supremacy

Layla Saad

Raising Our Hands

Jenna Arnold

Redefining Realness

Janet Mock

Sister Outsider

Audre Lorde

So You Want to Talk About Race

Ijeoma Oluo

The Bluest Eye

Toni Morrison

The Fire Next Time

James Baldwin

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

Michelle Alexander

The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the 21st Century

Danny Glover, Grace Lee Boggs, and Scott Kurashige

The Warmth of Other Suns

Isabel Wilkerson

Their Eyes Were Watching God

Zora Neale Hurston

This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color

Rosario Morales

When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America

Ira Katznelson

White Fragility

Robin DiAngelo

Videos

Short clips, perfect for coffee-breaks.

1 hour 30 minutes

Slavery by Another Name

PBS documentary challenging the idea that slavery ended with the emancipation proclamation.

2 hours 17 minutes

Just Mercy

The 2019 film, which chronicles criminal justice reform in Alabama, stars Michael B. Jordan as lawyer Bryan Stevenson.

1 hour 40 minutes

13th

Netflix documentary by Ava DuVernay about the connection between US Slavery and the present day mass incarceration system.

4 hours

When They See Us

Four-part Netflix series by Ava DuVernay about the wrongful incarceration and ultimate exoneration of the “Central Park Five.”

19 minutes

How to Overcome Our Biases? Walk Boldly Toward Them

TED Talk by Vernā Myers, encourages work vigorously to counter balance bias by connecting with and learning about and from the groups we fear.

18 minutes

The Danger of a Single Story

TED Talk by Chimamanda Adiche, offers insight to the phenomenon of using small bits of information to imagine who a person is.

19 minutes

The Urgency of Intersectionality

TED Talk by Kimberlé Crenshaw that asks us to see the ways Black women have been invisibilized in the law and in media.

10 minutes

How to Deconstruct Racism, One Headline at a Time

TED Talk by Baratunde Thurston that explores patterns revealing our racist framing, language, and behaviors.

15 minutes

Indigenous People React to Indigenous Representation in Film And TV

Conversation with a diverse range of Indigenous people by FBE about media depictions of Indigenous people, Columbus day, and Indigenous identity.

12 minutes

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Discussing Race

TEDx talk by Jay Smooth that suggests a new way to think about receiving feedback on our racial blindspots.

5 minutes

White Bred

Excellent quick intro to how white supremacy shapes white lives and perception.

7 minutes

Why “I’m Not Racist” Is Only Half the Story

Robin DiAngelo explains the function of white fragility in maintaining racial hierarchy.

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New York Times Op-Docs on Race

Multiple videos with a range of racial and ethnic perspectives on the lived experience of racism in the US.

5 minutes

CBS News Analysis: 50 States, 50 Different Ways of Teaching America's Past

Ibram X. Kendi reviews current history curriculum production and use across the U.S.

7 minutes

I Didn't Tell You

Ever wonder what a day in the life of a person of color is like? Listen to this poem, written and spoken by Norma Johnson.

5 minutes

Confronting ‘Intergroup Anxiety’: Can You Try Too Hard to Be fair?

Explores why we may get tongue tied and blunder when we encounter people from groups unfamiliar to us.

3 minutes

Racism is Real

A split-screen video depicting the differential in the white and black lived experience.

3 minutes

This is Us

Eddie Glaude explains why blaming current racial tensions on Donald Trump misses the point.