Support Black Lives Matter

With all that is happening, I have complied a list of resources to support the movement. On top of having difficult conversations with friends, family, and maybe yourself please care for one another and yourself.

Education

1. Articles to Read

2. PBS’s Teaching Your Child About Black History Month

3. ”White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack” by Knapsack Peggy McIntosh

4. “America’s Racial Contract Is Killing Us” by Adam Serwer | Atlantic (May 8, 2020)

Video to Watch

1. Black Feminism & the Movement for Black Lives: Barbara Smith, Reina Gossett, Charlene Carruthers (50:48)

2. "How Studying Privilege Systems Can Strengthen Compassion" | Peggy McIntosh at TEDxTimberlaneSchools (18:26)

Podcast to Subscribe to

1. Code Switch (NPR)

2. Intersectionality Matters! hosted by Kimberlé Crenshaw

3. Momentum: A Race Forward Podcast

4. Pod For The Cause (from The Leadership Conference on Civil & Human Rights)

Books to Read

1. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander

2. White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo, PhD

3. The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin

4. When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America by Ira Katznelson

Films to Watch

1. 13th (Ava DuVernay) — Netflix

2. American Son (Kenny Leon) — Netflix

3. See You Yesterday (Stefon Bristol) — Netflix

4. The Hate U Give (George Tillman Jr.) — Hulu with Cinemax

5. When They See Us (Ava DuVernay) — Netflix

6. Organizations to follow on social media

7. Antiracism Center: Twitter

8. Audre Lorde Project: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook

9. Color Of Change: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook

10. Colorlines: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook

11. Equal Justice Initiative (EJI): Twitter | Instagram | Facebook

12. NAACP: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook

13. RAICES: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook

14. Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ): Twitter | Instagram | Facebook

-Document compiled by Sarah Sophie Flicker, Alyssa Klein in May 2020.

Buy and Support Black

1. Black Own Brands at Target

2. Black Own Brands on Amazon

3. 89 Black-Owned Businesses

Black Own Restaurants

1. Baltimore

2. D.C.

3. New Orleans

4. Vegan Cuisine

5. Detroit

6. Nashville

7. New York City

8. Bay Area California

9. Los Angeles

10. Atlanta

11. Hoston

12. Dallas

13. Phoenix

14. Minneapolis

15. Chicago

16. Ohio

17. Denver

18. Las Vegas

19. Milwaukee

20. Florida

21. Philadelphia

22. Raleigh

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