Policy
The Breathe Act, presented by the Electoral Justice Project of the Movement for Black Lives. A visionary bill to divest taxpayer dollars from brutal and discriminatory policing and invest in a new vision of public safety. Click HERE for the bill summary.
Reparations for Slavery Now H.R. 40
M4BL (Movement 4 Black Lives) Policy Platform
Take Action
How White People Can Show Up to Support Black Lives, by Felicia Gustin
97 things White people can do for Racial Justice, by Corinne Shutack
5 Ways White people can take action for Black lives, by SURJ
Tools and Resources
SURJ Toolkit: Calling People In Around “Violence”
Dismantling Anti-Black Bias in Democratic Workplaces: A Toolkit, from AORTA (Anti-Oppression Resource & Training Alliance)
Say Their Names: A toolkit to help foster productive conversations about race and civil disobedience, from Chicago Public Schools
Defund the Police: Resources, from the White Noise Collective
Community Ready Corps put out a workshop via zoom, through the Allies & Accomplices branch of the work. This is a generous sharing of the Community Ready Corps Allies and Accomplices training, The Five Methods of Divestment and Weaponization of White Power and Privilege, from Saturday May 30, 2020. You can watch it HERE (via Facebook link).
Some Readings & Short Videos
The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity, a conversation on NPR with Robert P. Jones, author of White Too Long
A Timeline of Events That Led to the 2020 ‘Fed Up’-rising, by Michael Harriot
2020 is not 1968: To understand today’s protests, you must look further back, by Thomas J. Sugrue
"What To The Slave Is The 4th Of July”: Descendants read Frederick Douglass’ speech ** NPR
What Is Owed, by Nikole Hannah Jones, in New York Times: If true justice and equality are ever to be achieved in the United States, the country must finally take seriously what it owes black Americans.
“Five Black & Brown Men Have Been Recently Found Hanged in Public. Were Some of Them Lynched?” an interview by Democracy Now and Jacqueline Olive, the director of “Always in Season”, a documentary that examines the history of lynchings.
Call It What It Is: Anti-Blackness, by Kihana Miraya Ross in the New York Times
Activist Tamika Mallory’s speech, “We learned violence from you!”
The Unmattering of Black Lives by Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw
I’m White and I’m Outraged by Ahmaud Arbery’s Murder. Now What? By Taharee Jackson
Where do I donate? Why is the Uprising violent? Should I go protest?, by Courtney Martin
Organizations
SURJ (Showing Up for Racial Justice)
Anti-Oppression Resources and Training Alliance (AORTA)
Black & Indigenous Led Organizations
Sacred Places Institute for Indigenous People
Bay Area American Indian Two-Spirits
Education
The National SEED Project (Seeking Educational Equity and Diversity)
Zinn Education Project: Teaching People’s History
Articles
Homo Icarus: The Depreciating Value of Whiteness and the Place of Healing, by Bayo Akomolafe
White Supremacy Culture, by Tema Okun, DismantlingRacism.org
The Case For Reparations, by Ta-Nehisi Coates
White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack, by Peggy McIntosh
Healing the Hidden Wounds of Racial Trauma, by Kenneth V. Hardy
Slavery and the Origins of the American Police State, by Ben Fountain
Resource Lists
This List of Books, Films, and Podcasts About Racism is A Start, Not A Panacea, by Isabella Rosario
Your Kids Aren’t Too Young To Talk About Race: Resource Roundup, by Katrina Michie
A long and VERY helpful list of “Anti-Racism Resources”
Listen, Learn, Participate: A #BlackLivesMatter Resource Series
Videos
Race: The Power of an Illusion, PBS series and a Description of the different parts
The Danger of a Single Story, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Geographies of Racial Capitalism with Ruth Wilson Gilmore
The Urgency of Intersectionality, by Kimberlé Crenshaw
Race as A Floating Signifier, by Stuart Hall
“The Crown Ain’t Worth Much,” by Hanif Abdurraqib
“White Privilege,” by Kyla Jenée Lacey
Podcasts
The Land That Never Has Been Yet
Thinking about how to abolish prisons with Mariame Kaba
Notice the Rage, Notice the Silence, OnBeing with Resmaa Menakem
Books
Bipoc Authors
So You Wanna Talk About Race, by Ijeoma Oluo
How To Be An Antiracist and many more by Ibram X. Kendi
Me and White Supremacy, by Layla F. Saad
My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies, by Resmaa Menakem
Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome, by Joy Degruy, Online resources and support to understand post traumatic slave syndrome
The New Jim Crow, by Michelle Alexander
The Little Book of Race and Restorative Justice: Black Lives, Healing, and US Social Transformation, by Fania E. Davis
Recognizing and Resolving the Roots of Racism, by Phavia Kujichagulia
Between the World and Me and many more by Ta-Nehisi Coates
50 Years of Assimilation: From the Midwest to the Wild West and All the Blackness and Whiteness In Between, by Wanda Lee-Stevens
The Fire Next Time, by James Baldwin and The Fire Next Time Teacher’s Guide
The Autobiography of Malcolm X, by Alex Haley
Black Skin, White Masks, and other works by Frantz Fanon
All The Women in My Family Sing, an anthology documenting the experiences of women of color at the dawn of the twenty-first century
The Source of Self Regard and The Bluest Eye and Beloved and just about anything else by Toni Morrison
Americanah, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The Price of the Ticket, by James Baldwin the collected non-fiction and film
Racism Without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in the United States, by Eduardo Bonilla Silva
The History of White People, by Nell Irvin Painter
Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?”, by Beverly Daniel Tatum, Ph.D.
For White Folks Who Teach in the Hood…and the Rest of Y’all Too: Reality Pedagogy and Urban Education & other books by Christopher Emdin
Black Youth Rising: Activism and Radical Healing in Urban America and Hope and Healing in Urban Education, and more by Shawn Ginwright
Culturally Responsive Teaching & The Brain, by Zaretta Hammond and Course Curriculum to support it
Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools, and other books by Monique W. Morris
White Authors On Whiteness
White Fragility: Why it's so hard for white people to talk about racism, by Robin DiAngelo
No Fascist USA! The John Brown Anti-Klan Committee and Lessons for Today’s Movements, by Hilary Moore and James Tracy
Whitnessing Whiteness: The Need to Talk About Race and How To Do It, by Shelly Tochluk
The Color of Law: A forgotten history of how our government segregated America, by Richard Rothstein
The Invention of the White Race, by Theodore W. Allen
White Like Me, and many more books by Tim Wise
Uprooting Racism, and other books and resources by Paul Kivel
The Future of White Men and Other Diversity Dilemas, by Joan Steinau Lester
The Heart of Whiteness, by Robert Jensen
Black, White, Other: Biracial Americans Talk About Race and Identity, by Lise Funderburg
We Can’t Teach What We Don’t Know, by Gary R. Howard
Rewriting American History
A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America, by Ronald Takaki
An Indigenous People’s History of the United States, by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Racial Formation in the United States, by Michael Omi and Howard Winant
Support Black Owned Businesses
Resource of Black Owned Restaurants in the Bay Area
NILE - Black Owned Business Search