You may have participated in health or exercise challenges before and know that the point of committing to these challenges is to change our habits. For example, in a health challenge, we make goals to exercise each day, get enough sleep, eat healthy food; drink enough water... the hope is that when the challenge is over, these things will become the new normal. That's what we want the ARC to do -- raise awareness, invoke commitment, and make being an anti-racist the new normal in our everyday lives.

This is how it works -- each week participants receive an email with a list of 10-12 possible anti-racism activities to do on your own. We ask participants to choose and complete 3 of these over the course of a week. Activities might include reading an article, watching a film, supporting a Black-owned business, contacting an elected official, or volunteering with a justice organization. We'll even provide a tracking sheet! This is your own personal challenge and you don't need to report back to anyone.

By regularly participating in anti-racism activities, we naturally develop better habits of noticing and challenging racism in our daily lives.

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Try it with a friend!

The ARC can be an individual effort but there are other ways to do it, too, and one of the most rewarding is with a friend or as a group. We have several church groups that do it in community, meeting weekly to attend events or view films together as well as share their experiences with other activities. Some people do it in pairs, meeting for coffee once a week to discuss the activities they completed (and doing some together). The Challenge can also be done like a selection for a book club. We encourage you to take the Challenge with others—and please let us know if you do!