Culture House Anti-Racism and Allyship Resources
This document has been adapted by combining the suggestions + previous resources compiled by the following people + Orgs + voices:
Sarah Sophie Flicker, Alyssa Klein
Georgia May Hilmer + Lexie Smith
Raeshem Nijhon, Carri Twigg, Nicole Galovski++
LISTEN
- Articles + Essays
- Videos
- Podcasts
- Books
- TV Shows
- Films
- Archives
ACT
- Confronting Bias + Anti-Racism
- Organizations to follow
- Resource Documents
- Fundraising, Research and Advocacy Organizations
- Petitions, Policy
- Crisis + Afterword: Healing + Health Resources to donate + be a part of.
LISTEN
Articles to read:
- “America’s Racial Contract Is Killing Us” by Adam Serwer | Atlantic (May 8, 2020)
- Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement (Mentoring a New Generation of Activists
- ”My Life as an Undocumented Immigrant” by Jose Antonio Vargas | NYT Mag (June 22, 2011)
- The 1619 Project (all the articles) | The New York Times Magazine
- The Combahee River Collective Statement
- “The Intersectionality Wars” by Jane Coaston | Vox (May 28, 2019)
- Tips for Creating Effective White Caucus Groups developed by Craig Elliott PhD
- ”White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack” by Knapsack Peggy McIntosh
- “Who Gets to Be Afraid in America?” by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi | Atlantic (May 12, 2020)
- “How to Be an Ally if You are a Person with Privilege” by Frances E. Kendall PhD (2003)
- For our White Friends desiring to be allies by Courtney Ariel
- Slate article about the police response to protesters
- In Defense of Looting, written during the protests in Ferguson five years ago that explains the function of looting as a political act
- A Decade of Watching Black People Die, an episode of Code Switch about the way the recent spate of videos of anti-Black violence have not meaningfully changed policy in America
- Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race, Reni Eddo-Lodge
- They Can’t Kill Us All: Ferguson, Baltimore, and A New Era
- in America’s Racial Justice Movement, Wesley Lowery
- Black Riot, The New Inquiry
- Remember, No One is Coming to save us by Roxane Gay
- Making America White Again by Toni Morrison
VIDOES:
Podcasts to subscribe to:
Books to read: Black Bookstores List HERE
Films
Archives
ACT
Confronting Bias + Anti-Racism
Organizations to follow
Resource Documents
Fundraising, Research and Advocacy Organizations
- Movement for Black Life - Actions, policies, and demands
- Array Now | Array 101
- NAACP empowerment programs
- Communities United For Police Reform (CPR)
- Split a Donation Between 40 Community Bail Funds
- Campaign Zero is dedicated to ending police violence in America. They’re doing important researching and policy work and need vocal support.
- Summaeverythang is taking donations to fund fresh produce boxes for residents of Watts
- Dream Sequence Editions has raised over $90,000 to support those affected by COVID, and has now pivoted all funds towards organizations working for racial justice.
- Black Women's Blueprint, dedicated to the direct support of Black women, currently raising funds for the Brooklyn area
- Mutual Aid NYC
- MPD150 - Campaign for Police Abolition, with excellent resource guide
- Black Earth Farms is donating food to black folks in need at home, who’ve been arrested and bailed, injured or otherwise traumatized during Oakland uprisings, as well as those who are organizing bail funds and med resources. Venmo: @blackearthfarms / Cashapp: $blackearth
- Raised Roots is working with Black Earth Farms to donate fresh food to black folks affected by Oakland uprisings. Venmo to account listed above or @jamil-burns
- Make the Road NY - dedicated to justice for immigrant and working class communities
- VOCAL - a statewide grassroots membership organization that builds power among low-income people affected by HIV/AIDS, hepatitis C, the drug war, homelessness, and mass incarceration in order to create healthy and just communities.
- RAPP - works to end mass incarceration and promote racial justice through the release from prison of older and aging people and those serving long and life sentences
- FightForBreonna.org.
- Mapping Police Violence
Petitions + Policy
Repeal 50-A - Petition to repeal the law protecting law enforcement from transparency and accountability.
A Repeal 50-A Toolkit
Contact Info for all NY State Assembly members
Petition to pass The Post Act, which addresses the use of highly invasive spy technology on civilians, often targeting immigrants and POC, and now being deployed in recognizing individuals during the uprisings.

Crisis + Afterword: Healing + Health Resources to donate + be a part of.
Social Media Posts, Individual Advocacy resources.