Answered By: Jaimie Donnelly Last Updated: Sep 21, 2020 Views: 28
Answered By: Jaimie Donnelly
Last Updated: Sep 21, 2020 Views: 28
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Q. Black Lives Matter (BLM) FAQ
- Black Lives Matter: Article links and links to compiled resources to share with customers and staff looking to educate themselves, participate, and/or donate + resources for black folks looking for empowerment, wellness, and/or legal aid.
- Podcasts:
- #TellBlackStories
- Code Switch
- About Race
- Seeing White
- Momentum: A Race Forward Podcast
- The Diversity Gap
- Intersectionality Matters! Hosted by Kimberle Crenshaw
- The Stoop
- Still Processing
- Books:
- So You Want To Talk About Race by Ijeoma Olou
- Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?: And Other Conversations About Race by Beverly Daniel Tatum
- Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
- Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
- They Can't Kill Us All: Ferguson, Baltimore, and a New Era in America's Racial Justice Movement by Welsey Lowery
- White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide by Carol Anderson
- How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
- Black Stats: African Americans by the Numbers in the Twenty-First Century by Monique W. Morris
- Choke Hold: Policing Black Me by Paul Butler
- Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower by Brittney Cooper
- Black Feminist Thought by Patricia Hill Collins
- Holistic Wealth: 32 Life Lessons to Help You Find Purpose, Prosperity, and Happiness by Keisha Blair
- Beloved by Toni Morrrison
- The Hate U Give, by Angie Thomas
- Our Enemies in Blue (free ebook)
- Who Do You Serve Who Do You Protect? (free ebook)
- Videos (shorts/documentaries/movies/shows):
- Race - The Power of An Illusion (PBS three-part series)
- When They See Us (four-part series)
- 13th (documentary)
- Freedom Riders (documentary)
- Whose Streets? (documentary)
- Strong Island (documentary)
- LA 92 (documentary)
- The Hate U Give (Hulu film and book by Angie Thomas)
- In Black America (podcast)
- Just Mercy (Amazon Prime)
- The Skin We're In (CBC)
- Dear White People (Netflix)
- Black-ish (ABC)
- If Beale Street Could Talk (Hulu)
- Selma (Amazon Prime)
- Blogs/articles/web
- From White Racist to White Anti-‐Racist t h e l i f e
- https://culturalbridgestojustice.org/detour-spotting/ (unlearning obstacles to antiracism)
- Recognizing and Dismantling Your Anti-Blackness
- George Floyd's Death Is a Failure of Generations of Leadership(NYT)
- Don't Fall for the 'Chaos' Theory of the Protests(The Atlantic)
- Talking to Kids About Racism, Early and Often(NYT)
- How Organizations Are Failing Black Workers -- And How to Do Better (harvard business review)
- The Price We Have Paid for Not Confronting Racism(NYT)
- Black Journalists Are Exhausted(NYT)
- USC Professor On How Protests Have Changed Since LA Riots In 1992 (NPR)
- Why Feeling Uncomfortable Is So Important (forbes)
- We need more white parents to talk to their kids about race. Especially now. (washington post)
- Getting Over Your Fear of Talking About Diversity(harvard business review)
- How to Actually Fix America's Police(The Atlantic)
- Racial Inequality, in College and in the Workplace (inside higher ed)
- Five Charts That Will Change The Way You Think About Racial Inequality (forbes)
- tools for white anti racist organizing (collectiveliberation.org)
- Welcome To The Anti-Racism Movement — Here's What You've Missed (the medium)
- The Subtle Linguistics of Polite White Supremacy(the medium)
- What is the role for white people working for racial justice in this current period? (2017, the Organization for Black Struggle and the Anti-Racist Collective)
- Stop Kidding Yourself Police Were Created to Control Working Class Poor People (Labor and Working Class History Association)
- Protection Without Police (Upping The Anti)
- unlearning anti-blackness in the latino/latinx community (Remezcla)
- implicit bias test (Harvard)
- Specific Activists/Groups to keep up with:
- https://blacklivesmatter.com/resources/
- Equal Justice Initiative (“The Equal Justice Initiative is committed to ending mass incarceration and excessive punishment in the United States, to challenging racial and economic injustice, and to protecting basic human rights for the most vulnerable people in American society.”)
- Unicorn Riot Independent Journalism
- Resources for the wellbeing+mental health of black people:
- https://www.diveinwell.com/ (movement for diversity in wellness, includes donation based digital wellness classes. Events currently seem to be in the past?)
- https://www.sistaafya.com/ (Chicago based. low cost digital therapy for black women and free support groups)
- https://www.healhaus.com/corona/ (Brooklyn basedholistic wellness center offering livestreams and digital wellness during covid19 yoga stuff)
- https://therapyforblackgirls.com/ (movement to de-stigmatize mental health issues and therapy for black girls, includes directory of culturally competent therapists-all over US, a fb support group, and a podcast)
- https://thenapministry.wordpress.com/ (movement/blog/ministry championing power of rest as form of reparations and wellness, Atlanta based I think, but virtual now))
- https://www.inclusivetherapists.com/about (database and org of inclusive therapists trained in racial trauma)
- BEAM: Black Emotional and Mental Health Collective (CA based, but with virtual programs)
- Action items/donation opportunities (General):
- Podcasts:
■Can’t decide where to donate? Split your donation between 70+ community bail funds, mutual aid funds, and racial justice organizers HERE.
- Black Lives Matter's list of places to donate — extensive list on where to donate
- Black Lives Matter direct donation link(to just BLM)
- The Bail Project
- NAACP Legal Defense Fund
- Campaign Zero
- Color of Change
- Know Your Rights Camp legal defense initiative + empowerment camps/workshops for youth of color, started by Colin Kaepernick)
- American Civil Liberties Fund
- National Associate of Black Journalists
- The Black Trans Travel Fund
- Color of Change
- National Bail Fund Network
- National Bail Project
- National Police Accountability Project
- George Floyd Memorial Fund
- Jamee Johnson Memorial Fund
- Justice for Mychael Johnson
- Action items/donation opportunities (Regional):
- The Trans Woman of Color Survival Fund (Washington DC, website under construction))
- No New Jails NYC (NYC)
- The Okra Project (NYC)
- Philadelphia Bail Fund(Philly)
- Reclaim the Block (Minneapolis)
- Restoring Justice Community Bail Fund (Houston)
- The Legal Rights Center (MN)
- Louisville Community Bail Fund (Louisville KY)
- Trans Housing Coalition (THC) (Atlanta)
- Chicago Community Bond Fund(Chicago)
- Connecticut Freedom Fund(CT)
- Communities United Against Police Brutality (Twin Cities)
- Emergency Release Fund (NYC)
- Black Visions Collective (MN)
- Reclaim the Block (Minneapolis, there’s a petition too)
- Baltimore Community Bail Fund(Baltimore)
- Communities United Against Police Brutality (Twin Cities)
- Black Visions Collective (MN)
- Justice for Jacksonville Protestors (Jacksonville FL)
- Resource guides
- https://www.antiracismproject.org/resources
- https://www.whiteaccomplices.org/ (how to be better than an ally)
- https://www.rachelricketts.com/antiracism-resources
- Why is this happening? | 100-year
- Prison Culture » Thinking Through the End of Police…
- Anti-Racism Resources for White People: A list of articles, videos, podcasts, books, films and TV shows, organizations, and other resources to deepend your anti-racist work.
- How to Help Protestors From Home: A Twitter thread on how to contribute to protests from home. (added 6/6/20)
- Letters for Black Lives Translations: Available translations in Arabic, Bahasa Indonesia, Bahasa Malaysia, Bengali, Portuguese, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Hindi, Hmong (Green dialect), Hmong (White dialect), Farsi, French, Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Russian, Spanish, Tagalog, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Urdu, Vietnamese. (added 6/6/20)
- Natl Resource List: Includes more local organizations and funds to donate to, all organized by city/location, as well as resources for people seeking legal help, tips for protesters, and general social media tips.
- Recursos Para BLM: A masterlist of funds explained in Spanish. (added 6/6/20)
- Resistance Funds: A masterlist of funds to donate to. (added 6/6/20)
- Sanitization Protocol for Direct Action Action During COVID-19:
Protocol for what to do before, during, and after a protest.