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For Racial Justice, We Have To Get Past Our Shame

To combat implicit bias, researchers are turning their focus to how our brains can be retrained. Shakil Choudhury is a consultant with 25 years of experience in justice, equity, diversity and inclusion training, and he joins host Krys Boyd to talk about addressing racism with the science of psychology, which he says helps mitigate feelings of shame or guilt in order to dig deep and do real work. His book is called “Deep Diversity: A Compassionate, Scientific Approach to Achieving Racial Justice.”

This interview originally aired on Aug. 30, 2021