Educate Yourself

Here is a list of resources that I’ve commonly seen are great reference points. I’m no expert, but this is my attempt at credible consolidation.

Videos

Here are some impactful videos from Social Media:

• “Dear White People” by @themanacho (9 mins) + all the rest of his “Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man” videos

• “Systematic Racism Explained” via @violadavis, by @actdottv & @juveeproductions (4 ½ mins)

• “George Floyd, the Minneapolis Protests, Ahmaud Arbery & Amy Cooper” via @thedailyshow, by @trevornnoah (18 mins)

Books

• How to Be an Anti-Racist by Ibram X. Kendi

• Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge

• So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo

• Me and White Supremacy by Layla F. Saad

• White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo & Michael Eric Dyson

• The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander

• The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X and Alex Haley

• White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide by Carol Anderson

• Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine

• Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?: And Other Conversations about Race by Beverly Daniel Tatum

Movies / Series

• Just Mercy
  Film based on civil rights lawyer Bryan Stevenson’s work on death row in Alabama
  FREE TO WATCH (Month of June) on Apple TV, YT, Google, Amazon, etc.

• Let It Fall
  A documentary looking at racial tensions in Los Angeles and the 1992 riots over LAPD officers’ brutal assault on Rodney King

• When They See Us
  A Netflix miniseries from Ava DuVernay about the Central Park Five

• 13th
  A Netflix documentary exposing racial inequality within the criminal justice system.

  Full Film FREE TO WATCH on YouTube (via /Netflix)

• I Am Not Your Negro
  A documentary envisioning the book James Baldwin was never able to finish
  Trailer Here

• Selma
  A film that chronicles the marches of the Civil Rights Movement
  FREE to Rent/Buy on Amazon right now

Articles / Opinion

• “How to Make This Moment the Turning Point for Real Change,” by Barack Obama via Medium

• “Confessions of a Former Bastard Cop,” by Officer A. Cab via Medium offers a first-hand story of what happened to this officer when tried to fix things from the inside

• “When I was 15,” a thread of Tweets by @KristaVernoff highlighting her White privilege and the policing system that let her off easy growing up

• “The Death of George Floyd, In Context,” by Jelani Cobb of The New Yorker

• “Of Course There Are Protests. The State Is Failing Black People,” by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor for the New York Times

• “This Is How Loved Ones Want Us To Remember George Floyd,” by Alisha Ebrahimji for CNN

• The New York Times Magazine’s award-winning The 1619 Project is as important as ever. Take some time to read (or re-read) the entire thing, particularly this essay by Nikole Hannah-Jones

  • It is also available to listen via 5 podcast episodes

• “America’s Protests Won’t Stop Until Police Brutality Does,” by The NY Times Editorial Board for the New York Times is an opinion piece about how this country has failed to provide one of the most fundamental protections in the Constitution: the right to life.

Who to Follow

Organizations

• The Conscious Kid - Website, IG: @theconsciouskid, TW: @consciouskidlib

• ACLU - Website, IG: @aclu_nationwide, TW: @ACLU

• Black Lives Matter - Website, IG: @blklivesmatter, TW: @blklivesmatter

• Campaign Zero - Website, IG: @campaignzero

• National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) - Website, IG: @naacp, TW: @NAACP

  • NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund - Website, IG: @naacp_ldf, TW: @NAACP_LDF

• Color of Change - Website, IG: @colorofchange, TW: @ColorOfChange
  

People

• Ibram X. Kendi, the author of How To Be An Antiracist and Director of the Antiracism Center

• Rachel Cargle, a writer and lecturer who explores the intersection between race and womanhood

• Nikkolas Smith, the artist behind portraits of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery and others

• Charlene Carruthers, founder of the Black Youth Project 100

Give

Time

If you feel safe to demonstrate/protest in your area, awesome. Please just be safe and wear a mask.

For those interested in Portland, I’d recommend following @rosecityjustice.

Support Black-Owned Business

This is a great opportunity to support local Black-owned businesses. There’s a ton of different directories —

In Portland:
Here is a Directory of Portland Black-Owned Eateries

In North America (+ more):
Here is an article that lists hundreds of Black-owned businesses across the continent, in addition to select few that are in Europe (although we know there are thousands more).

Donate

* Please remember to check with your employer for any donation matching opportunities and make those 💸s stretch further. *

NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATIONAL FUND
Support in order to advance LDF’s efforts to protect voting rights, reform our criminal justice system, achieve education equity, and ensure economic justice for all.

ALCU (American Civil Liberties Union) Foundation

The ACLU is a network of national and state affiliate offices filing cases in both state and federal courts - defending, preserving, and advancing the individual rights and liberties that the Constitution and the laws of the United States guarantee every person in this country. 

BLACK LIVES MATTER
Support of the movement and ongoing fight to end state-sanctioned violence, liberate Black people, and end white supremacy forever.

CAMPAIGN ZERO
The comprehensive platform of research-based policy solutions to end police brutality in America.

BAIL FUNDS

National

COVID-19 Emergency Response Fund for Community Bail & Bond Funds

National Bail Fund Network Directory (bit.ly/localbailfunds)

Local

List of Bail Funds for Protestors across the Country

There is also this Crowd-Sourced Google Doc of Cities

Support the Families of Those Killed

George Floyd

Amaud Arbery

Breonna Taylor

This certainly isn’t exhaustive, as there are far too many more.