Anti-racism Resources for White Allies

Hi all, I am not an expert in allyship, but I compiled this list of resources that have helped me over the years. I hope it might help you too and start important conversations with your friends and family about anti-racism, privilege, and ending the systematic, institutional oppression of Black people. Use your voice. Donate your money. Vote. Leave space for rage. Decenter yourself. Educate yourself. Don’t ask Black people to do the emotional and physical labor for you. Investigate your own bias. Recognize your privilege. Get uncomfortable. Be more than an ally. Be an accomplice to systemic change.

BLACK LIVES MATTER

Powerful Opinion Pieces/Speeches:

Where to Donate:

NAACP Legal Fund
National Urban League
Peace and Healing for Darnella (17-year-old girl who filmed George Floyd’s murder)
Black Lives Matter
The African American Policy Forum (AAPF)
Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ)
People’s Budget LA
National Council for Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated Women and Girls
The Bail Project
Here’s Where You Can Donate to Help Protests Against Police Brutality

Petitions:

Support Black Businesses in LA:

Black Book LA (Beauty, Fashion, Gifts & Books, etc.)
Support LA’s Black Owned Restaurants - Kat Hong
Here’s a list of more than 85 black-owned food businesses in L.A. - Jen Harris based on Kat Hong

Support Black Businesses in the USA:

Black Owned Bookstores:

The Lit Bar @thelitbar
Afriware Books @afriwarebooks
Eso Won Books @esowonbooks
Sister’s Uptown @sistersuptown
The Dock Bookshop @the_dock_bookshop
Uncle Bobbie’s Coffee & Books @unclebobbies
The Key Bookstore @keybookstore
Mahogany Books @mahoganybooks
Semicolon Bookstore & Gallery @semicolonchi
Hakim's Bookstore & Gift Shop @hakimsbookstore
Harriet's Bookshop @harrietts_bookshop
For Keeps Books @forkeepsbooks

Political Action in the USA:

Showing Up for Racial Justice

Educational Black Reading:

Are Prisons Obsolete? - Angela Davis
The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House - Audre Lorde
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness - Michelle Alexander
White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk about Race - Robin DiAngelo
Black Feminist Thought - Patricia Hill Collins
How to Be An Antiracist - Dr. Ibram X. Kendi
When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir - Patrisse Khan-Cullors & Asha Bandele
Between the World and Me - Ta-Nehisi Coates
White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide - Carol Anderson
So You Want to Talk About Race - Ijeoma Oluo
Unapologetic: A Black, Queer Feminist Mandate for Radical Movements - Charlene Carruthers
Invisible Man, Got the Whole World Watching: A Young Black Man’s Education - Michael Denzel Smith
Color of Violence: The INCITE! Anthology by Incite! Women of Color Against Violence
Black Power: The Politics of Liberation - Charles V. Hamilton
Killing Rage: Ending Racism - bell hooks
Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race - Reni Eddo-Lodge
Sister Outside: Essays and Speeches - Audre Lorde
Women, Race, & Class - Angela Y. Davis
The Wretched of the Earth - Frantz Fanon
Unsettling the Coloniality of Being/Power/Truth - Sylvia Wynter
Freedom is a Constant Struggle - Angela Davis
Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower - Brittney Cooper
Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?: And Other Conversations About Race - Beverly Daniel Tatum
Ain’t I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism - bell hooks
Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism - Safiya Umoja Noble
Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness - Simone Browne
Black Skin, White Masks - Franz Fanon
At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape, and Resistance- a New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power - Danielle L. McGuire
Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia - Sabrina Strings
Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor - Layla F. Saad
Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California - Ruth Wilson Gilmore
The Fire Next Time - James Baldwin
The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks About Race - edited by Jesmyn Ward

Other Black Books:

Bad Feminist - Roxane Gay
How We Fight for Our Lives - Saeed Jones
Hull - Zandria Phillips
The Mother of Black Hollywood: A Memoir - Jenifer Lewis
Thick: And Other Essays - Tressie McMillan Cottom
I Can’t Date Jesus - Michael Arceneaux
We’re Going to Need More Wine - Gabrielle Union
Heavy: An American Memoir - Kiese Laymon
Difficult Women - Roxane Gay
You Can’t Touch My Hair - Phoebe Robinson
No Ashes in the Fire: Coming of Age Black and Free in America - Darnell L Moore
Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood - Trevor Noah
Beloved - Toni Morrison
Americanah - Chimamand Adichie
We are Never Meeting in Real Life - Samantha Irby
Homegoing - Yaa Gyasi
Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body - Roxane Gay
The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates - Wes Moore

Resources for Allies:

Protest Safely:

Police Propaganda in the Media:

Miscellaneous:

Instagram accounts to follow:

@blklivesmatter
@wp4bl
@cherietotheb
@rachel.cargle
@laylafsaad
@mattmcgorry
@kendrick38
@bldpwr
@colorofchange
@weinspirejustice
@transparentblackgirl
@aliciasanchez
@ignitekindred
@sonyareneetaylor
@decolonizing_fitness
@bodyposipanda
@ajabarber
@munroebergdorf
@ellessechar
@r29unbothered
@galdemzine
@travisalabanza
@courtneyahndesign
@ijeomaoluo
@roxanegay
@venetialamanna
@nowhitesaviours
@theconsciouskid
@privtoprog
@berniceaking
@safiyaanoble
@pinkmanataray
@jenokie
@snma_official
@blackvisionscollective
@mireillecharper
@thegreatunlearn
@ibramxk
@renieddolodge
@iamrachelricketts
@ckyourprivilege