This list was generated by reflecting on my own experience and through meaningful conversations with colleagues of mine, both black and white leaders. It offers important steps people can take right now, both for DIRECT ACTION to support the black community and to make sure the changes that need to happen happen. It also offers resources for educating and doing the inner work required in this time. This is an ongoing, living list that will continue to grow. If you know of a resource that should be on this list, feel free to reach out and let us know. We would be grateful.
Direct Action: Ways to Directly Support the Black Community, Economy, & Black Businesses
Emergent Strategy Idea Institute was co-founded in 2015 by Adrienne Maree Brown and Octavia Butler, a black science fiction writer. Inspired by Octavia Butler’s work, brown founded the institute after observing an increased need for emergence and complex sciences in movement facilitation, and a space to play and learn. Over the years, the organization has rapidly grown to include a blossoming team of facilitators, staff, and an advisory board.
Sponsor someone's training fee for Angel Acosta's Work: Contemplating 400 Years of Inequality Facilitator Training. These trainings support community members and practitioners depend their ability to navigate and facilitate conversations on racial and structural violence through a contemplative lens.
The Jubilee Network - Led by Konda Mason and others, this initiative brings together an intergenerational community to envision and bring about a new economy and society.
Black LEADERS OF CHANGE DOING INCREDIBLE WORK WHO YOU CAN SUPPORT TO THUS SUPPORT THE LARGER MOVEMENT:
ANGEL ACOSTA
Zelle: angelacosta16@gmail.com
Venmo: DrAngel-Acosta-1
REV. ANGEL
Venmo: Revangel
Paypal: https://www.paypal.me/angelkyodowilliams
BLACK Dharma Teachers Whose Work You Will Want to Know:
Venerable Pannavati, Lama Rod Owens, Vimalasara Mason, Kaira Jewel-Lingo, Konda Mason, Alisa Dennis, Joanna Harper, Rev. angel Kyodo Williams, Ruth King, Noliwe Alexander, Leslie Booker, Amana Johnson, and Kate Johnson, Also, please check out the work of scholar, activist, and mindfulness practitioner Angel Acosta.
EDUCATION RESOURCES:
Articles: to Educate Yourself about the History of White Supremacy in the United States:
A Timeline of Events That Led to the 2020 ‘Fed Up’ Uprising - The Root
Books for Educating Yourself on Healing Racism:
Radical Dharma: Talking Race, Love, and Liberation by Rev. angel Kyodo Williams, Lama Rod Owens, Jasmine Syedullah Ph.D.
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo
The Inner Work of Racial Justice by Rhonda V. Magee
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Love and Rage: The Path of Liberation through Anger, by Lama Rod Owens
Austin Channing Brown’s I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness
Shaun King’s Make Change: How to Fight Injustice, Dismantle Systemic Oppression, and Own Our Future
My Grandmother’s Hands by Resmae Menakem
Programs/Trainings:
Ruth King's Racial Affinity Group Development Program
Angel Acosta's Contemplating 400 Years of Inequality Facilitator Training
Rachel Cargle’s Lecture Series and other Offerings
RESOURCES FOR PARENTS & CHILDREN
CNN/Sesame Street racism town hall
Resourced from Bioneers:
Incredible Voices to Follow
As Black, Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC) share their lived experiences of oppression and discrimination — as well as their wisdom for moving forward to dismantle the systems that perpetuate it — the value of listening to these voices right now cannot be understated. Here are a few of so many inspiring BIPOC organizers and leaders that you should be paying attention to.
Patrisse Cullors, best known for being a co-founding partner of the Black Lives Matter movement, also wrote the New York Times best-selling book, “When They Call You a Terrorist.”
Kimberlé Crenshaw is the executive director of the African American Policy forum and the host of their podcast, Intersectionality Matters!
The Audre Lorde Project is a community organizing center for LGBT and gender non-conforming people of color.
Code Switch is an NPR podcast hosted by a multi-racial, multi-generational team of journalists. Their episodes span overlapping themes of race, ethnicity and culture, how they play out in our lives and communities, and how all of this is shifting.
PolicyLink is a national research and action institute advancing racial and economic equity by Lifting Up What Works®.
Dr. Rupa Marya is a doctor, professor and leading activist whose work connects medicine with social justice.
The Othering & Belonging Institute at UC Berkeley, directed by professor john a. powell, advances research, policy, & communications in order to realize a world where all belong.
Anti-Racist Research Policy Center convenes varied specialists to figure out novel and practical ways to understand, explain, and solve seemingly intractable problems of racial inequity and injustice.
The Southern Poverty Law Center, founded in 1971, combats hate, intolerance, and discrimination through education and litigation.
Repairers of the Breach is a nonprofit organization that seeks to build a moral agenda rooted in a framework that uplifts our deepest moral and constitutional values to redeem the heart and soul of our country.
Color of Change is an online racial justice organization that designs campaigns powerful enough to end practices that unfairly hold Black people back, & champion solutions that move us all forward.
Maya Wiley is a legal analyst for NBC News and MSNBC, as well as a University professor at the New School in NYC.
Dream Corps closes prison doors and opens doors of opportunity. This nonprofit organization brings people together across racial, social, and partisan lines to create a future with freedom and dignity for all.
White Awake is a network of people combatting white supremacy by focusing on educational resources and spiritual practices designed to engage people who’ve been socially categorized as “white” in the creation of a just and sustainable society.
Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ) is a national network of groups and individuals organizing white people for racial justice.
How to Support the Protesters Demanding Justice for George Floyd
This Teen Vogue article shares important resources — such as bail funds and organizations to know about — for helping protesters in need, along with further tools for getting involved and making your voice heard.
What We're Tracking:
From Democracy Now!: “‘America’s Moment of Reckoning’: Cornel West Says Nationwide Uprising Is Sign of ‘Empire Imploding’” | As thousands from coast to coast took to the streets this weekend to protest the state-sanctioned killing of Black people, and the nation faces its largest public health crisis in generations and the highest unemployment rate since the Great Depression, professor Cornel West calls the U.S. a “predatory capitalist civilization obsessed with money, money, money.”
From MSNBC: “Nikole Hannah-Jones: Black Americans are ‘demanding their full citizenship’” | Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times Magazinereporter Nikole Hannah-Jones and New Yorker staff writer Jelani Cobb discuss policing’s roots in slave patrols and enforcement of white supremacy during Reconstruction.
From LA Times: “Op-Ed: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: Don’t understand the protests? What you’re seeing is people pushed to the edge” | Kareem Abdul-Jabbar notes that “black protesters in the age of Trump and coronavirus are people pushed to the edge, not because they want bars and nail salons open, but because they want to live. To breathe.”
From the New Yorker archives: “Letter from a Region in My Mind” | This essay by James Baldwin opens with a thematic quote from 1962: “Whatever white people do not know about Negroes reveals, precisely and inexorably, what they do not know about themselves.”
From the Center for Whole Communities: “Cut the Check or Count Me Out: ‘Good Whites,’ Diversity Diversions & A New Look at an Old Idea” | This blog post calls out white liberal habits of tokenizing diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives, which seek to replace the true work of liberating Black, Indigenous and/or people of color from systematic oppression.
Resourced from Center for Diverse Leadership in Science:
Articles
"5 Ways to Show Up for Racial Justice Today" by Nastia Voynovskaya
“75 Things White People Can Do For Racial Justice” by Corinne Shutack
“America’s Racial Contract Is Killing Us” by Adam Serwer
"Don’t understand the protests? What you’re seeing is people pushed to the edge" by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
“For Our White Friends Desiring To Be Allies” by Courtney Ariel
"Intergenerational Resilience in Response to the Stress and Trauma of Enslavement and Chronic Exposure to Institutionalized Racism" by Latifa Jackson, Zainab Jackson and Fatimah Jackson
“No Place for Self-Pity by No Room for Fear by Toni Morrison
"Racism Is Here To Stay: Now What?” by Derrick Bell
"The Case for Reparations” by Ta-Nehisi Coates
“The Myth of Police Reform” by Ta-Nehisi Coates
“The Trouble with White Women, an Interview with Kyla Schuller" by Nawal Arjini
"Trans Woman Nina Pop Stabbed to Death in Missouri" by Trudy Ring
"Transgenerational Consequences of Racial Discrimination for African American Health" by Bridget J. Goosby and Chelsea Heidbrink
"What Black America Knows About Quarantine" by Dr. Brandi Summers
“Who Gets To Be Afraid in America?” by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi
Blogs
"All Lives Matter Thursday" by Dr. Ebony Elizabeth Thomas
Books
Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Davis
How to Be an Antiracist by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein
The End of Policing by Alex S. Vitale
The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria: And Other Conversations About Race by Beverly Daniel Tatum
Calls to Action
Campaigns
Coalitions
Essays
“The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House” by Audre Lorde
“White Privilege: Unpacking the Knapsack“ by Peggy Macintosh
Funding
Interviews
Mental Health Resources
UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine Mental Health Resources
UCLA Graduate Programs in Bioscience Behavioral Wellness Resources
Organizations
Papers
“The Transformation of Silence Into Language and Action" by Audre Lorde
Reading Lists
Decolonising Science Reading List by Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein
Resources
Statements
"I am so tired" Statement by Rob Sellers Vice Provost for Equity, Inclusion and Chief Diversity Officer University of Michigan
Justice for Black Lives: End All University of California Police and Imperial Contracts
Videos