We came across two excellent book lists recently.  The Institute for Humane Education created an annotated list of 14 Children’s Picture Books Exploring Race and Racism.  KQED’s Mind/Shift published 25 Books that Diversity Kids’ Reading Lists this Summer.  As Mind/Shift reports, a Cooperative Children’s Book Center study found that in 2012, “…the total number of books about people of color—regardless of quality, regardless of accuracy or authenticity—was less than eight percent of the total number of titles we received.”  NPR’s Code Switch reported in June on the #WeNeedDiverseBooks campaign at BookCon.

Since President Obama established the White House Task Force to Protect Students from Sexual Assault several news stories have been published about issues of rape on college campuses.  One of the most recent was published in the Washington Post on June 29.  Just the day before that, NPR had a story about Tackling Sexual Assault On Campus with Comedy, featuring a recent segment of the Daily Show with Jon Stewart.

So what is OSU doing to prevent and respond to sexual assault?  Check out http://oregonstate.edu/sexualassault/.  There’s a link there to Get Involved in solutions.