RESOURCE LIST
Places to Donate Funds:
- Black Lives Matter
- NAACP Legal Defense Fund
- ACLU
- Brooklyn Bail Fund
- Minnesota Freedom Fund
- National Action Network
- Black Visions Collective
- The Bail Project
- Reclaim the Block
- The Boris Lawrence Henson Foundation
- COVID 19 Mutual Aid Solidarity Network
- Until Freedom
- Organized Communities Against Deportations
- National Urban League
- Unicorn Riot
- The Philando Castile Relief Foundation
- Justice Committee
- Sisters of the Movement
- Petition: Justice for Shaun Fuhr
Support your local BIPOC’s business and restaurants
Mental Health Resources:
- National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI)
- Call the NAMI Helpline at 800-950-NAMI
- Or in a crisis, text “NAMI” to 741741
- Trauma Response and Crisis Care (TRACC)
- Melanin and Mental Health
- National Queer and Trans Therapists of Color Network
- Black Mental Health Alliance
- Liberate Meditation App: for Black, Indigenous, and POC
- Mental Health/Therapy instagram
- Therapyforblackgirls instagram
- 44 Mental Health Resources for Black People Trying to Survive in This Country
- The Boris Lawrence Henson Foundation
Articles, Podcasts, and Additional Activist Resources (a few of the resources below may bring up additional trauma for some; please take care when reading):
- 11 Anti-racist accounts worth following
- Self-Care Tips for Black People Who Are Struggling With This Very Painful Week
- SURJ - Calling People in About “Violence”
- An Essential Reading Guide For Fighting Racism
- Black Lives Matter: Home
- The Guide to Allyship
- Twitter Explains How To Support Black Lives Matter As A Non-Black Person
- White Accomplishes
- Addressing Law Enforcement Violence as a Public Health Issue
- 1619 by The New York Times
- About Race
- Code Switch by NPR
- The Diversity Gap
- Intersectionality Matters! hosted by Kimberle' Crenshaw
- Momentum: A Race Forward Podcast
- BlackPast.org
- Equal Justice Initiative
- Dear Pandemic
- Black Perspectives: the blog of the Afican American Intellectual History Society
- 26 Ways to Be in the Struggle Beyond the Streets
- 75 Things White People Can Do for Racial Justice
- Anti-Racism Resources
- Southern Poverty Law Center Guide to Bystander Intervention
- ACLU Protesters’ Rights
Further Reading Materials:
- Stamped From the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America - Ibram X. Kendi
- A People’s History of the United States - Howard Zinn
- White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard For White People To Talk About Racism - Robin DiAngelo
- So You Want to Talk About Race - Ijeoma Oluo
- The Burning House: Jim Crow and the Making of Modern America - Anders Walker
- The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness - Michelle Alexander
- The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America - Khalil Gibran Muhammad
- Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment is Killing America’s Heartland - Jonathan M. Metzl
- A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America - Ronald Takaki
- How To Be An Antiracist - Ibram X. Kendi
- Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong - James W. Loewen
- When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir - Patrisse Khan-Cullors and asha bandele
- A Black Women’s History of the United States - Daina Ramey Berry and Kali Nicole Gross
- How to Be Less Stupid About Race: On Racism, White Supremacy, and the Racial Divide - Crystal Marie Fleming
- White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide - Carol Anderson
- I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness - Austin Channing Brown
- Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome: America’s Legacy of Enduring Injury and Healing - Dr. Joy Degruy
Ted Talks:
- How Racism makes us sick - David R. Williams
- Racism has a cost for everyone - Heather C. McGhee
- How racism harms pregnant women -- and what can help - Miriam Zoila Perez
- How to deconstruct racism, one headline at a time - Baratunde Thurston
- How we can start to heal the pain of racial division - Ruby Sales
- The Little Problem I had Renting a House - James A. White Sr.
- The racial politics of time - Brittney Cooper
- The problem with race-based medicine - Dorothy Roberts
- Want to change the world? Start by being brave enough to care - Cleo Wade
- I love being a police officer, but we need reform - Melvin Russell