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Amazing Organizations:
ACLU.org What They Do: The American Civil Liberties Union was founded in 1920 and is our nation’s guardian of liberty. The ACLU works in the courts, legislatures, and communities to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties guaranteed to all people in this country by the Constitution and laws of the United States. How You Can Support: You can join the ACLU with membership. Your donation goes toward the group’s work to protect free speech and the right to protest, fight for reproductive freedom and push for reforms to our racially-biased criminal justice system. You can also volunteer your time by contacting your local ACLU affiliate.
Bailproject.org What They Do: This National Revolving Bail Fund provides free bail assistance to low-income individuals who are legally presumed innocent, and whom a judge has deemed eligible for release before trial contingent on paying bail. The fund is meant to fight racial and economic inequalities in the jail system. How You Can Support: You can donate directly to send money to help the organization post bail money for people who cannot afford it.
Blacklivesmatter.org What They Do: Founded in 2013 in response to the acquittal of Trayvon Martin’s murderer, Black Lives Matter Foundation, Inc is a global organization in the US, UK, and Canada, whose mission is to eradicate white supremacy and build local power to intervene in violence inflicted on Black communities by the state and vigilantes. How You Can Support: You can join the email list for updates on special launches, network actions, programs, and partnerships. You can also donate to the organization. Contact your local chapter to learn more.
Campaignzero.org What They Do: The mission of this group is to end police violence in American by limiting police interventions, improving community interactions, and ensuring accountability. The areas of focus are analysis of policing practices across the country, research to identify effective solutions to end police violence, technical assistance to organizers leading police accountability campaigns, and the development of model legislation and advocacy to end police violence nationwide.
How You Can Support: Donations support the efforts outlined above. Visit the site for find out how you can demand action from your representatives and sign up for news and action items.
The Marshall Project What They Do: A nonpartisan, nonprofit news organization that seeks to create and sustain a sense of national urgency about the U.S. criminal justice system. They achieve this through award-winning journalism, partnerships with other news outlets, and public forums. In all of our work, we strive to educate and enlarge the audience of people who care about the state of criminal justice. How You Can Support: Read and share the stories from the Marshall Project. You can also make a tax-deductible donation.
NAACP.org What They Do: The mission of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is to secure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights in order to eliminate race-based discrimination and ensure the health and well-being of all persons. How You Can Support: Become a member to work with activists and organizers in local chapters. This can include participating in voting registration or supporting work to improve health-care access, education, and economic opportunities. You can also donate here .
National Police Accountability Project (NPAP) What They Do: In 1999, NPAP was created as a non-profit to protect the human and civil rights of individuals in their encounters with law enforcement and detention facility personnel. The central mission of NPAP is to promote the accountability of law enforcement officers and their employers for violations of the Constitution and the laws of the United States. How You Can Support: You can visit their site to read the latest news and share the information. You can also donate to the cause here .
Southern Poverty Law Center What They Do: The Southern Poverty Law Center was founded in 1971 as a small civil rights law firm. Today, the Center is internationally known for its tolerance education programs, its legal victories against white supremacists and its tracking of hate groups. How You Can Support: Making a donation goes toward litigation, education, and other forms of advocacy to work toward a day when ideals of equal justice and equal opportunity will be a reality.
Antiracism Center
Audre Lorde Project
Black Women’s Blueprint
Color of Change
Colorlines
The Conscious Kid
Equal Justice Initiative
The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights MPowerChange
National Domestic Workers Alliance RAICES
Showing Up For Racial Justice
Yale’s course African American History: from Emancipationto the Present is free.
Films/TV/Videos
The Wellness of We Video – https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1107248063004490
13th (Netflix)
American Son (Netflix)
Black Power Mixtape
Clemency (Chinonye Chukwu)
Dear White People (Netflix)
Just Mercy
King in the Wilderness
See You Yesterday (Netflix)
Selma
The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution The Hate U Give
When They See Us (Netflix)
Books, Articles and Podcasts
Buy from Black-owned bookshops: https://aalbc.com/bookstores/list.php
Stay Woke by Justin Michael Williams
Freedom is a Constant Struggle by Angela Davis (2016)
In this collection of essays, interviews, and speeches, the renowned activist examines today’s issues—from Black Lives Matter to prison abolition and more.
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin (1992)
The book is divided into two parts: one is a letter written to Baldwin’s 14-year-old nephew on the 100th anniversary of the abolition of slavery, and the other is a powerful reflection on the author’s formative years in Harlem.
They Can’t Kill Us All: Ferguson, Baltimore, And A New Era In America’s Racial
Justice Movement by Wesley Lowery (2016)
A reporter for The Washington Post, Lowery much of President Obama’s second term covering the deaths of unarmed black men at the hand of white police officers.
Beloved by Toni Morrison (2004)
Toni Morrison’s Pulitzer Prize-winning tome encapsulates the collective, refracted trauma felt by slaves and their descendants. Inspired by a true story reported in the American Baptist in 1856.
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration In The Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander (2010)
Civil Rights attorney Alexander book has spawned a whole generation of criminal justice reform activists and organizations motivated by the author’s unforgettable argument that “we have not ended racial caste in America; we have merely redesigned it”
White Fragility, b y Robin DiAngelo (2018)
Ph.D. DiAngelo poses a question, “What part do I play?” to white people in North America. The book is dedicated to pulling back the veil on so-called pillars of whiteness: assumptions that prop up racist beliefs without white people realizing it
How to Be An Antiracist by Ibram X Kendi (2019)
Ibram X. Kendi’s concept of antiracism reenergizes and reshapes the conversation about racial justice in America–but even more fundamentally, points us toward liberating new ways of thinking about ourselves and each other.
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead (2016)
A suspenseful tale of escape and pursuit, it combines elements of fantasy and the counter-factual with an unflinching, painfully truthful depiction of American slavery. Whitehead revisits the grotesque barbarities of our nation’s history in the interest of our common stake in freedom and dignity.
Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do by Jennifer L. Eberhardt (2019)
How do we talk about bias? How do we address racial disparities and inequities? With a perspective that is at once scientific, investigative, and informed by personal experience, Dr. Jennifer Eberhardt offers us the language and courage we need to face one of the biggest and most troubling issues of our time
Divided Sisters by Midge Wilson and Kathy Russell Fatal Invention by Dorothy Roberts
Locking Up Our Own by James Forman
The Miner’s Canary by Lani Guiner and Gerald Torres The Wretched of the Eart by Frantz Fanon
Ella Baker and The Black Freedom Movement by Barbara Ramsby
I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
Heavy: An American Memoir by Kiese Laymon
Just Mercy by Brian Stevenson
Me and White Supremacy by Layla F Saad Raising Our Hands b y Jenna Arnold
Redefining Realness by Janot Mock Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde
So You Want To Talk About Race by Ijeoma Olou The Bluest Eyes b y Toni Morrison
The Next American Revolution by Grace Lee Boggs
The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
The Bridge Called My Back: Writings By Radical Women of Color When Affirmative Action Was White by Ira Katznelson
Articles/ Essays:
America’s Racial Contract Is Killing Us, The Atlantic by Adam Sewer
The Intersectionality Wars by Jane Coaston
My Life As An Undocumented Immigrant By Jose Antonio Vargas
Tips For Creating Effective Hite Caucus Groups By Craig Elliott Ph.D https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/14/magazine/black-history-american-democ racy.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/05/31/filing-charges-george-floyds-death -was-easy-part/?outputType=amp
Podcasts
About Race
Co-discussants AnnaHolmes ,B aratundeThurston , RaquelCepeda and TannerColby hosta lively multiracial, interracial conversation about the ways we can’t talk, don’t talk, would rather not talk, but intermittently, fitfully, embarrassingly do talk about culture, identity, politics, power, and privilege in our pre-post-yet-still-very-racial America.
Code Switch
This NPR podcast is about race and culture. It takes on race and racism across a spectrum of identities and includes personal stories, historical context, and impactful analysis on the challenging past and present of race in America.
Good Ancestor
Layla Saad is an author of Me & White Supremacy , speaker & teacher on the topics of race, identity, leadership, personal transformation & social change. Her podcast highlights change-makers and culture shapers.
Intersectionality Matters
This is a podcast hosted by Kimberlé Crenshaw, an American civil rights advocate and a leading scholar of critical race theory.
Momentum: A Race Forward Podcast
Co-hosts Chevon and Hiba give their unique takes on race and pop culture, and uplift narratives of hope, struggle, and joy, as we continue to build the momentum needed to advance racial justice in our policies, institutions, and culture. Build on your racial justice lens and get inspired to drive action by learning from organizational leaders and community activists
1619
Four hundred years ago, in August 1619, a ship carrying more than 20 enslaved Africans arrived in the English colony of Virginia. No aspect of the country that would be formed in America has been untouched by the 250 years of slavery that followed. 1619 is a New York Times audio series hosted by Nikole Hannah-Jones, examines the long shadow of that fateful moment.
Fare of the Free Child
Pod Save The People
Activist DeRay Mckesson explores news, culture, social justice, and politics with fellow activists Brittany Packnett Cunningham and Sam Sinyangwe, and writer Dr. Clint Smith. They offer a unique take on the news, with a special focus on overlooked stories and topics that often impact people of color.
Pod for the Cause (Leadership Conf on Civil & Human Rights)
The Nod
Hosts Brittany Luse and Eric Eddings truly do tell the type of stories that are not told elsewhere. Each episode explores the genius, innovation, and resilience that is so particular to being Black—in America, and around the world.
Come Through With Rebecca Carroll
Writer Rebecca Carroll ( Sugar in the Raw: Voices of Young Black Girls in America , Saving the Race: Conversations on Du Bois ) wants us to acknowledge that race is at the center of every issue in America. The series features 15 essential conversations about race.
The Stoop
The Stoop podcast digs into stories that are not always shared out in the open. Hosts Leila Day and Hana Baba start conversations about what it means to be black and how we talk about blackness.
Seeing White
Where did the notion of “whiteness” come from? What does it mean? What is whiteness for? Scene on Radio host and producer John Biewen took a deep dive into these questions, along with an array of leading scholars and regular guest Dr. Chenjerai Kumanyika, in this fourteen-part documentary series.
USE YOUR VOICE
Activists, scientists, and scholars all agree the single most important action a citizen can take to enact change is to use our voice at the ballot box. Voting is a right and a privilege. You can focus on what is closest to you. Your local school board, your town/city council, your District Attorney, your Mayor, your State Representatives. Read up on the records, the issues, and vote for who/what you believe in. And the work is not over once the election is. Keep in contact, alert them to issues happening in your community.
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