Racial Justice Resources for Activists, Advocates & Allies

This guide consists of a curated list of datasets that include ethnicity and race variables which can be used to facilitate anti-racism research in Canada. Although not comprehensive, the intention is to provide a starting point for researchers investigating topics about anti-racism and the impact of racism.

This report aims to help policymakers, movement leaders, and thinkers better understand and address the challenges posed by data capitalism and the ways it is fundamentally intertwined with systemic racism.

In order for us to understand and confront the ways in which data-based technologies are being integrated into our everyday lives and impacting our ability to self-determine and thrive, we must first understand how our communities—ones marginalized by race, class, gender, sexuality, immigration status, and other natural and imposed identities—are impacted by data-base technologies.

The Manifest-No is a declaration of refusal and commitment. It refuses harmful data regimes and commits to new data futures.

LittleSis* is a free database of who-knows-who at the heights of business and government. We're a grassroots watchdog network connecting the dots between the world's most powerful people and organizations.
* opposite of Big Brother

There are many considerations touching on Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility that inform researchers' perspectives, practices, and decisions regarding their data.* Although some fields have extensive research ethics histories that include detailed data practices, many do not. Many researchers end up learning best practices either through trial and error, or from whatever personal and professional networks they happen to have...Our goal with this project is to collate and make visible some of the resources relevant to different stages of work with data throughout a research project; that is, we sought to include resources with practical applications at various decision points in the research process.

Documenting the Now responds to the public's use of social media for chronicling historically significant events as well as demand from scholars, students, and archivists, among others, seeking a user-friendly means of collecting and preserving this type of digital content.

This is a tool for anonymizing photographs taken at protests.

helps people use video and technology to protect and defend human rights.