ANTI-RACISM RESOURCES

This dot5 cument is intended to serve as a resource for people who intend to deepen their anti-racism work. If you haven’t engaged.ft in anti-racism work in the past, start now. Feel free to add any resources that you find relevant and please circulate this document on social media and with your friends, family, and colleagues.*

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Businesses to support:

• New York: Support Black Restaurants (GOOGLE SPREADSHEET)
• Los Angeles: Support Black Restaurants (GOOGLE SPREADSHEET)
• Places to Eat Near Me Support Black Restaurants (website)

Petitions to sign

• White House Petition no https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/juIstice-g  no eorge-floyd-0
• Change.org petitions — *Donations on change.org help promote the petition but the donation does not go directly to the cause. Read more here.  
• change.org - Justice for George Floyd
• change.org - Justice for Breonna Taylor
• change.org - Julius Jones is innocent. Don't let him be executed by the state of Oklahoma.
• Policy solutions by state & sector: https://www.joincampaignzero.org/solutions

Emails to send- auto populated

• Minneapolis police head for the arrest of all 4 officers that killed George Floyd: http://tinyurl.com/emailforfloyd
• Mayor Garcetti: removal of LAPD Chief Michel Moore- Policy solutions by state & sector: http://tinyurl.com/y7ef2sq4

Places to donate $

• Volunteer your time: https://www.grassrootslaw.org/volunteer?akid=281.3943947.ve288y&rd=1&souce=ema20200602-281&t=24
• Official George Floyd Memorial Fund  https://t.co/mUNLnEoOEc
• Twin Cities DSA, Food Justice for Frontlines — originally an effort to get fresh food to healthcare workers during the Covid crises, this has been expanded to help feed the ongoing street resistance that has started in Minneapolis and is spreading throughout the metro area        --- https://tcdsa.org/meals
• Black Lives Matter -- https://secure.actblue.com/donate/ms_blm_homepage_2019
• National Bail Out Fund - https://secure.actblue.com/donate/freeblackmamas2020
• The Youth Justice Coalition- YJC

Articles to read:

• “America’s Racial Contract Is Killing Us” by Adam Serwer | Atlantic (May 8, 2020)
• “How to Make this Moment the Turning Point for Real Change” by Barack Obama | Medium (June 1, 2020)
• Eddie Huang on the Oppressive Whiteness of the Food World.
• 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)
• “The One Reform That Both The Left & Right Support” (Covers Breonna Taylor and Qualified Immunity)| by Spencer Bokat-Lindell| NY Times (June 2, 2020)
• How Chris Jackson Is Building a Black Literary Movement
• The Case for Reparations by Ta-Nehisi Coates

Videos to watch:

• Black Feminism & the Movement for Black Lives: Barbara Smith, Reina Gossett, Charlene Carruthers (50:48)
• "How Studying Privilege Systems Can Strengthen Compassion" | Peggy McIntosh at TEDxTimberlaneSchools (18:26)
• Emmanuel Acho: Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man (9:27)

Podcasts to subscribe to:

• 1619 (New York Times)
• About Race
• Code Switch (NPR)
• Intersectionality Matters! hosted by Kimberlé Crenshaw
• Momentum: A Race Forward Podcast
• Pod For The Cause (from The Leadership Conference on Civil & Human Rights)
• Pod Save the People (Crooked Media)
• Seeing White

Books to read:

• 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
• I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
• Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
• Me and White Supremacy by Layla F. Saad
• Raising Our Hands by Jenna Arnold
• Redefining Realness by Janet Mock 
• Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde
• So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
• The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
• The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
• The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness 
  by Michelle Alexander
• The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century 
  by Grace Lee Boggs
• The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
• Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
• This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color by Cherríe Moraga
• When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America by Ira Katznelson
• White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo, PhD
• The Nichel Boys by Colson Whitehead
• Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
• Carceral Capitalism by Jackie Wang
• Race, Class and Power in Brazil by Pierre-Michel Fontaine
• Stony The Road; Reconstruction, White Supremacy, And The Rise Of Jim Crow  by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
• The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism by Edward E. Baptist
• No Ashes in the Fire: Coming of Age Black and Free in America by Darnell L. Moore (really interesting book about a young black gay man in the US - also a Black Lives Matter leader)
• We Were Eight Years in Power by Ta-Nehisi Coates
• Freedom: A Photographic History of the African American Struggle by Leith Mannings, Sophie Spencer-Wood, and Manning Marable

Films and TV series to watch:

• 13th (Ava DuVernay) — Netflix
• American Son (Kenny Leon) — Netflix
• Black Power Mixtape: 1967-1975 — Available to rent
• Clemency (Chinonye Chukwu) — Available to rent
• Dear White People (Justin Simien) — Netflix
• Fruitvale Station (Ryan Coogler) — Available to rent
• I Am Not Your Negro (James Baldwin doc) — Available to rent or on Kanopy
• If Beale Street Could Talk (Barry Jenkins) — Hulu
• Just Mercy (Destin Daniel Cretton) — Available to rent
• King In The Wilderness  — HBO
• See You Yesterday (Stefon Bristol) — Netflix
• Selma (Ava DuVernay) — Available to rent
• The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution — Available to rent
• The Hate U Give (George Tillman Jr.) — Hulu with Cinemax
• When They See Us (Ava DuVernay) — Netflix
• Green Book
• Freedom Writers
• 12 Years a Slave
• Hello Privilege with Chelsea Handler
• Patriot Act by Hassan Minaj on Renter’s Rights during COVID-19
• Monsters and Men
• The Kalief Browder Story (Netflix Documentary Series)

Organizations to follow on social media:

• Antiracism Center: Twitter
• Audre Lorde Project: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook 
• Black Women’s Blueprint: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
• Color Of Change: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
• Colorlines: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
• The Conscious Kid: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
• Equal Justice Initiative (EJI): Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
• Families Belong Together: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
• The Leadership Conference on Civil & Human Rights: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
• MPowerChange: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook 
• Muslim Girl: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
• NAACP: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
• National Domestic Workers Alliance: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
• RAICES: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook 
• Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ): Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
• SisterSong: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
• United We Dream: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
• Schools Not Prisons: Twitter | Instagram| Facebook

More anti-racism resources to check out:

• 75 Things White People Can Do for Racial Justice
• Obama.org Anguish and Action
• Anti-Racism Project
• Jenna Arnold’s resources (books and people to follow)
• Rachel Ricketts’ anti-racism resources
• Resources for White People to Learn and Talk About Race and Racism
• Save the Tears: White Woman’s Guide by Tatiana Mac
• Showing Up For Racial Justice’s educational toolkits
• “Why is this happening?” — an introduction to police brutality from 100 Year Hoodie
• Zinn Education Project’s teaching materials

• 20+ Allyship Actions for Asians to Show Up for the Black Community Right Now

Justice Reform Resources: 

• Vote Quadrant A Strategic Voting System To End Police Brutality
• Prison Policy Initiative: State-Level Criminal Justice Reforms for 2020

*Original resource document compiled by Sarah Sophie Flicker, Alyssa Klein in May 2020. Updated by Mountain Gate founders Sophia Parsa & Aleksa Mara on June 1 2020. Updated by Forbes U30 Board Members Sophia Parsa, Davina Durgana, and Nicole Tinson on June 22 2020.*