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Carolyn L. Baker, M.Ed.
Award-winning author of
An Unintentional Accomplice:
A Personal Perspective on White Responsibility
and the upcoming
DISPATCHES, From Racial Divide to a Road of Repair,
A Collection of Essays

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Carolyn L. Baker
Jun 5, 2021
100 years after the Tulsa Race Massacre
One hundred years ago, 10,000 state-sponsored White supremacists destroyed a prosperous Black neighborhood in Tulsa, OK. The history of...
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Carolyn L. Baker
Mar 2, 2021
The Battleground for the Imagination
Growing up white, and in segregated communities, I didn’t think I even had a race. There was nothing to be questioned, learned about,...
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Carolyn L. Baker
Nov 6, 2020
A Season of Reckoning
In this national election week, when patience is a virtue, we are witnessing both a societal transformation and a deeply divided country....
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Carolyn L. Baker
Aug 28, 2020
Demand Justice for Emmett Till on the 65th Anniversary of his Murder.
In 2016, I was sitting on my couch watching a BLM documentary as the narrator began to unfold the story of the 1955 murder of Emmett...
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Carolyn L. Baker
Aug 3, 2020
Black August
Black August is a call for reflection, study, and action to promote Black liberation. Its roots go back to California prisons in the...
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Carolyn L. Baker
Jun 29, 2020
"I'm not a racist!"
Here’s a phrase I hear from many of my white friends. “I’m not a racist.” Of course you’re not a racist – you’re not burning crosses on...
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Carolyn L. Baker
Jun 24, 2020
What Does it Mean to Be White in America?
For a while now I’ve been recommending white people to read books written by black authors. As a companion to this, I highly recommend...
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Carolyn L. Baker
Jun 23, 2020
Inclusivity Checklist
A question I am often asked is “What does it mean to ‘do the work’ of inclusivity?” In An Unintentional Accomplice: A Personal...
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Carolyn L. Baker
Jun 8, 2020
Now ‘The People’ Have Voted!
In the aftermath of the 1965 Watts Riot it was this The Los Angeles Free Press headline by the late, great Art Kunkin that captured the...
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