ALLYSHIP/ACTIVISM RESOURCES FOR THE BLACK COMMUNITY
Hi there. Like many of you, we feel heartbroken and devastated by the death of George Floyd and the many other countless incidents of police brutality and racism in our country. We’ve put this document together in an effort to do our part. We know there’s a lot of information flying around right now on how to help, so we’ve tried our best to put everything in one place. A lot of this content has come from other documents and social posts so we’ve included a short list of some of the sources we’ve used at the end. We’ll keep updating this as we go so if you have additional resources or information to add, please email Fatima Del Barco (Fatima.delbarco@mccann.com) or Mads Murphy (Mads.murphy@mccann.com). Finally, feel free to share. Stay safe and much love.
June 2020
GENERAL TIPS
- Register to vote and not just in the presidential election – vote for your local governments.
- If you can and choose to make a donation, consider doing it monthly to show continued support.
- Check in on your Black friends, family, partners and colleagues.
- Educate yourself and read up on what it means to be anti-rascist.
- Examine and unpack your own privilege.
- Don’t center the narrative around you if you’re acting as an ally – your job is to listen.
- Make sure you’re not supporting any organizations that promote hate.
- Do not circulate graphic videos of Black people being killed. It’s traumatic and unnecessary.
QUESTIONS TO REFLECT ON
- What can you do to support the Black community?
- What are your local politicians’ policies on ending police brutality?
- Think about how you were taught about race and culture. What do you know now that you didn’t know then that would change some of your opinions/actions?
- How do you plan on helping the fight to end racial discrimination and systematic oppression?
- How can you be actively anti-racist instead of simply “not racist”?
- How can you use your knowledge to change and progress conversations with friends, family, colleagues and peers?
GET IN CONTACT
General
George Floyd
- Call the Minneapolis Mayor’s Office, Jacob Frey: (612) 673-2100
- Call the Minneapolis District Attorney, Mike Freeman: (612) 348-5550
- Derek Chauvin (Badge #1087)
- Tou Thoa (Badge #7162)
- Thomas K. Lane
- Email the Minneapolis Police Department:
Breonna Taylor
- Call the Louisville Mayor: (502) 574-2003
- Call the Louisville Metro PD: (502) 574-7111
DONATE
Organizations
- Black Lives Matter – International activist movement that campaigns against violence and systemic racism and builds power to bring justice, healing, and freedom to Black people across the globe.
- Reclaim the Block – Began in 2018 and organizes Minneapolis community and city council members to move money from the police department into other areas of the city’s budget that truly promote community health and safety.
- Color of Change – Progressive nonprofit civil rights advocacy organization
- NAACP – National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) aim 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.
- Northstar Health Collective – Mutual aid group of organizers and street medics, is providing healthcare and other resources to activists and organizers on the ground.
- Unicorn Riot – Non-profit media organization dedicated to fair, on-the-ground reporting on civil disobedience, police brutality and white supremacy.
- Black Visions Collective – Black Visions Collective is a Black, Trans, and Queer led organization in affiliation with the Black Lives Matter Global Network and the official chapter in Minnesota.
- Audre Lorde Project – A Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Two Spirit, Trans and Gender Non-Conforming People of Color community organizing center, focusing on the New York City area.
- Minnesota Freedom Fund – Community based nonprofit that combats the harms of incarceration by paying bail for low-income individuals who cannot afford to. They have both a criminal bail fund as well as an immigration bail fund (donation goal met).
- The Bail Project – Post bail for people who can't afford it, reuniting families and restoring the presumption of innocence – one person at a time.
- The Loveland Foundation – committed to showing up for communities of color in unique and powerful ways, with a particular focus on Black women and girls. Resources and initiatives are collaborative and they prioritize opportunity, access, validation, and healing.
- National Urban League - The National Urban League, formerly known as the National League on Urban Conditions Among African Americans, is a nonpartisan historic civil rights organization based in New York City that advocates on behalf of economic and social justice for African Americans and against racial discrimination in the United States.
Bailout funds:
Small Business affected by riots
Other
PETITIONS
- Text “Floyd” to 55156 to sign petitions that demand accountability for George Floyd
- Text “Justice” to 668366 to sign petitions and demand accountability for George Floyd
- Text “Enough” to 55156 to sign petitions that demand accountability for Breonna Taylor
- Text “Justice” to 55156 to sign petitions that demand accountability for Ahmaud Arbery
- White House Petition: https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/justice-george-floyd-0
- Color of Change:
PROTEST
Tips and Education
Support and Legal Aid
- LA: 310-313-3700
- Richmond: 804-291-8520
- NYC: 783-346-6322
- Minneapolis: 612-444-2654
- ATL: 404-689-1519
- Philadelphia: 484-758-0388
- Louisville: 502-705-0081
- Memphis: UntilWereAllFree@gmail.com
EDUCATION
Books
- Counting Descent by Clint Smith
- Dear Martin by Nic Stone
- Why I am No Longer Talking to White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge
- Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
- Freedom Is A Constant Struggle by Angela Davis
- The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
- The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks About Race edited by Jesmyn Ward
- They Can’t Kill Us All: Ferguson, Baltimore, And A New Era In America’s Racial Justice Movement by Wesley Lowery
- Your Silence Will Not Protect You by Audre Lorde
- Stamped from the Beginning: Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi
- Who Do You Serve, Who Do You Protect: Police Violence and Resistance in the United States
- The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
- Remaking Black Power by Ashley D. Farmer
- The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
- They Were Her Property by Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers
- White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo
- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
- Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
- Me and White Supremacy by Layla F. Saad
- Black Feminist Thought by Patricia Hill Collins
- Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower by Dr. Brittney Cooper
- Heavy: An American Memoir by Kiese Laymon
- How To Be An Antiracist by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi
- Raising Our Hands by Jenna Arnold
- Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde
- So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
- The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
- Redefining Realness by Janet Mock
- This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color by Cherríe Moraga
- Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
- The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
- The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century by Grace Lee
- When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America by Ira Katznelson
- How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-First Century by Dorothy Roberts
- The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain by Langston Hughes
- The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X and Alex Haley
- People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn
- Unseen: Unpublished Black History from the New York Times Photo Archives by Dana Canedy and Darcy Eveleigh
- Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor by Layla F Saad
- America’s Original Sin by Jim Wallis
- Good Talk by Mira Jacob
- I’m Still Here by Austin Channing Brown
- When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir by Asha Bandele and Patrisse Cullors
- The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein
- Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin
- Biased by Jennifer Eberhardt
- Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
- Dark Days by James Baldwin
- Diversify by June Sarpong
- Don’t Touch My Hair by Emma Dabiri
- Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire by Akala
- So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
- The Good Immigrant, edited by Nikesh Shukla
- They Can’t Kill Us All by Wesley Lowery
- White Girls by Hilton Als
- White Like Me by Tim Wise
- I think Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine
- Playing in the Dark by Toni Morrison
Children’s Books
- Malcolm Little: The Boy Who Grew Up to Become Malcolm X by Ilyasah Shabazz
- Let It Shine: Stories of Black Women Freedom Fighters by Andrea David Pinkey
- The Day You Begin by Jacqueline Woodson
- Something Happened in Our Town by Marianna Celano
- Harlem’s Little Blackbird: The Story of Florence Mills by Renee Watson
- When We Were Alone b David A Robertson
- Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History by Vashti Harrison
- A is for Activist by Innosanto Nagara
- The Colors of Us by Karen Katz
- The Skin You Live In by Michael Tyler
Articles
Podcasts
Movies/Videos
- Within our Gates (Movie)
- Black Power Mixtape: 1967-1975 (Documentary) – Youtube
- Clemency (Movie) – Youtube
- King In The Wilderness (Documentary) – Youtube
- See You Yesterday (Movie) – Netflix
- Get Out (Movie) – Youtube
- 13th (Documentary) — Netflix
- American Son (Movie) — Netflix
- Becoming (Documentary) – Netflix
- Dear White People (TV Series) — Netflix
- Do the Right Thing (Movie) — Rent
- Fruitvale Station (Movie) — Rent
- I Am Not Your Negro (Documentary) — Hulu
- If Beale Street Could Talk (Movie) — Hulu
- Just Mercy (Movie) — Amazon Prime
- Loving (Movie) — Hulu
- Moonlight (Movie) — Netflix
- Mudbound (Movie) — Netflix
- Reconstruction: America After the Civil War (TV Series) — PBS
- Rest in Power: The Trayvon Martin Story — Rent
- Selma (Movie) — Rent
- Teach Us All (Documentary) — Netflix
- The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution (Documentary) — Rent
- The Central Park Five (Documentary) – Netflix
- The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson (Documentary) — Netflix
- The Hate U Give (Movie) — Hulu
- Time: The Kalief Browder Story (Documentary) — Netflix
- The Murder of Fred Hampton (Documentary) — Rent
- When They See Us (Television Series) — Netflix
- Whose Streets? (Documentary on Ferguson Uprising) — Rent
- Talks to Help You Understand Racism (TED)
- Being Black by Jane Elliot
- Black Bruins, Sy Stokes
- “Cuz He’s Black” Spoken Word, Javon Johnson
- Danger of Silence, Clint Smith III
- “How the Hood Loves You Back,” Steven Willis
- How To Deconstruct Racism, One Headline At A Time, Baratunde Thurston
- How Studying Privilege Systems Can Strengthen Compassion, Peggy McIntosh
- The Solution for America’s “Metastatic” Racism, Ibram X. Kendi
- Let’s Get To The Root of Racial Injustice, Megan Ming Francis
- The Power of Privilege, Tiffany Jana
- The Urgency of Intersectionality, Kimberle Crenshaw
- Three Myths About Racism, Candis Watts Smith
- What Beyonce Taught Me About Racism, Brittany Baron
MENTAL HEALTH RESOURCES FOR THE BLACK COMMUNITY
OTHER WAYS TO SUPPORT
Black Owned Bookstores
- Brave and Kind Books – Decatur, GA
- Brain Lair Books – South Bend, IN
- Agriware Books – Mayood, IL
- Detroit Book City – Detroit MI
- Uncle Bobbies – Philadelphia, PA
- Ashay By the Bay – Bay Area, CA
- Cafe con Libros – Brooklyn, NY
- Harriott’s Bookshop – Philadelphia, PA
- Mahogany Books – Washington DC
- Semicolon – Chicago, IL
- The Lit Bar – The Bronx, NY
- Source Booksellers – Detroit, MI
- Uncle Bobbies – Philadelphia, PA
- Fulton Street Books – Tulsa, OK
- Eye See Me – St. Louis, MO
- Frugal Bookstore – Boston, MA
- Eso Won Books – Los Angeles, CA
- Harriett’s Bookshop – Philadelphia, PA
- Sister’s Uptown – New York, NY
- Loyalty Books – Silver Springs, MD
- Turning Page Bookshop – Goose Creek, SC
- Wild Fig Books – Lexington, KY
Black Artists/People/Accounts to follow:
- @mspackyetti – Activist, Pod Save the People Co-Host, NBC News /MSNBC contributor
- @theconsciouskid – Parenting and education through a critical race lens
- @sarahsohief – Activist, producer, writer, filmmaker, cultural organizer
- @indyamoore – Actor, activist
- @rachel.cargle – Public academic, writer, lecturer
- @chasinggarza – HBIC Black Futures Lab, co-creator #BlackLivesMatter
- @charlenecarruthers – Author of Unapologetic: A Black, Queer and Feminist Mandate for Radical Movements
- @kendriana.speaks – Afrofuturist writer, artist, organizer
- @austinchnning – Author of I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness
- @privtoprog – Official IG for the #ShowUp movement
- @ckyourprivilege – Walking with folx on their journey to dismantle their relationship with systems of domination
- @ibramxk – Author of Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You
- @soyouwanttotalkabout – Dissects progressive politics/social issues in graphic slideshow form
- @Lizatlarge – cartoonist
- @Webuyblack
- @buyblacknyc
Organizations to follow:
- @colorofchange – We design campaigns powerful enough to end practices that unfairly hold Black people back, & champion solutions that move us all forward.
- @naacp – Founded 1909, the nation's first and largest grassroots–based civil rights organization.
- @mvmnt4blklives – coalition of groups across US that represent the interests of Black communities
- @blklivesmatter – Official IG for the #BlackLivesMatter Global Network. BLM is a call to action & response to anti-Black racism.
- @nowhitesaviors – Advocacy campaign lead by a majority female, majority African team of professionals based in Kampala, Uganda.
- @showingupforracialjustice – SURJ is a national network of groups & individuals organizing white people for racial justice.
- @civilrightsorg – The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, the nation’s oldest & largest civil rights coalition, building an America as good as its ideals.
- @reclaimtheblock – Coalition to demand that Minneapolis divest from policing and invest in long-term alternatives.
- @ethelsclub – A social and wellness club designed to celebrate people of color, online and IRL.
- @unitedwedream – Largest immigrant youth-led network in the country
- Audre Lorde Project
- Black Women’s Blueprint
- Colorlines
- The Conscious Kid
- Equal Justice Initiative (EJI)
- Families Belong Together
- The Leadership Conference on Civil & Human Rights
- Mpower Change
- National Domestic Workers Alliance
- National Urban League
- Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ)
- United Negro College Fund
Black Owned Restaurants in RVA
- 521 Biscuits and Waffles
- Addis Ethiopian
- Bateau
- Big Herm's Kitchen
- Boogaloos Bar and Grill
- Brewer’s Cafe
- Brewer’s Waffles
- Carena’s Jamaican Grill
- Charles’ Kitchen
- Charlotte’s Southern Deli and Tapas
- Chef Mamusu’s Africanne on Main
- C’est La Bin Art and Wine Galley
- Dunn’s Drive in BBQ
- Family Secrets Restaurant
- Famous Brown’s Legendary Soul Food
- Garfield’s Catering and Wine Bar
- Gojo Ethiopian Restaurant
- Good Tymes Restaurant and Wine Bar
- Harold’s Kitchen
- Hippodrome Theater and Taylor Mansion
- Inner City Blues Home of Caroline Barbecue
- Irie Vibes Jamaican Restaurant
- J.R. Crickets
- Jackie’s Restaurant
- Jamaica House REstaurant
- Kuru Ethiopian Bistro
- Ma Michele’s Cafe and Catering
- Main Stage Bistro
- Mama J’s Kitchen
- Maple Bourbon
- Michaela’s Quality Bake Shop
- Minibar RBA
- Mo’s Sweet Minis
- Mr. B’s
- Ms. Girlee’s Restaurant
- Nile
- Nomad Deli and Catering Company
- Pig and Brew
- Pumpkin’s Kitchen Cafe
- Queens International
- Ronnie’s BBQ
- Pumpkin Kitchen Cafe
- Queens International
- Ronnie’s BBQ
- RVA Street Foodies
- Send a Chef
- Sheep Hill Bistro
- Shrimps Restaurant
- Sisters Cafe
- Slyderz
- Soul Bistro
- Soul N Vinegar
- Soul Taco
- Southern Kitchen “The Mouth of the South”
- The Speakeasy Grill
- Spoonbread Bistro
- Spoonbread Bistro Deux
- Sugar’s Crab Shack
- Thirst Bistro
- Tipsy Cupcakes
- Traditionz Smokehouse
- The Treat Shop RVA
- UUrban Hang Suite Vagabond
- William’s Bakery
- Wingbox And Seafood Co.
Black Owned Restaurants in NYC
Black Owned Restaurants in Louisville
- Big Momma’s
- Tim Page’s
- Seafood Lady
- L Bad’s
- Abyssinia
- MAF Cafe
- Bougie Biscuit
- Rooftop Grill
- Funmi’s
- Wing Stations
- Queen of Sheba
- Po-Z
- Daddy Rich’s
- Shirley Mae’s
- Southern Express
- Franco’s
- Lucretia’s
Black Owned Restaurants in Boston
- 50 Kitchen
- Bon Appetit
- Bred Gourmet
- Cesaria
- Clarke’s Cakes and Cookies
- Down Home Delivery
- JP Roti Shop
- M&M BBQ
- Murl’s Kitchen
- Next Step Soul Food Cafe
- Murl’s Kitchen
- Natif Natal Restaurant
- Oasis Cafe
- One Family Diner
- Taste of Eden
- Yelu’s
- Wingz and Tingz
- Zaz Restaurant
- Cafe Juice Up
- Golden Krust
- Le Foyer Bakery
- Dayib Cafe
- Obosa
- Roxbury
- Dayib Cafe
- District 7 Tavern
- Soleil
- Suya JOint
- Top Mix
- Ali’s Roti
- Larry J’s BBQ
- Highland Cuisine
- Sunrise Cuisine
- For Hill Bar + Grill
- Silver Slipper
- Pit Stop Barbecue
- Golden Krust
LIST OF ADDITIONAL RESOURCES