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)

The Ruckus Society

Anti-Oppression Resources and Training Alliance (AORTA)

White Noise Collective

The Catalyst Project

The Untraining- Bay Area

Black & Indigenous Led Organizations

Movement 4 Black Lives

Community Ready Corps

Anti-Police Terror Project

Sogorea Te’ Land Trust

Sacred Places Institute for Indigenous People

Anti-Police Terror Project

Bay Area American Indian Two-Spirits

Education

The National SEED Project (Seeking Educational Equity and Diversity)

The National Equity Project

Teaching Tolerance

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

Opportunities for White People in the Fight for Racial Justice: Moving From Actor—to—Ally—to—Accomplice

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

Transcending Jewish Trauma

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

The Color of Fear

Race as A Floating Signifier, by Stuart Hall

The Crown Ain’t Worth Much,” by Hanif Abdurraqib

White Privilege,” by Kyla Jenée Lacey

Podcasts

Seeing White

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

Race Traitor, on The Heart

Nice White Parents

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

Black Business List by My Black Receipt

Official Black Wall Street

Support Black-Owned Businesses: 181 Places to Start Online