Step 1: LISTEN TO BLACK PEOPLE & BLACK LEADERSHIP
Step 2:
DONATE
Police reform organizations
[Courtesy of The Strategist ]
- The National Police Accountability Project
- Campaign Zero
- Communities United for Police Reform
- Communities United Against Police Brutality
- Equality for Flatbush; Brooklyn, New York
- American Civil Liberties Union
- Black Lives Matter Global Network
- Reclaim The Block
- Color of Change Education Fund
- Advancement Project
- Moms Demand Action; donations will be matched dollar for dollar by Everytown, Moms Demand Action’s parent organization
- Black Visions Collective: Minnesota
- Faith in Texas
- Take Action Chapel Hill; Chapel Hill, North Carolina
- Austin Justice Coalition; Austin, Texas
- Dallas Alliance Against Racial and Political Repression; Dallas, Texas
- Pull Up or Shut Up
- The Bail Project
- National Bail Out
- National Bail Fund Network COVID-19 Emergency Response Fund
- Atlanta Solidarity Fund
- Louisville Community Bail Fund
- Chicago Community Bond Fund
- Philadelphia Bail Fund
- Nashville Community Bail Fund
- Dallas Bail Fund for Protesters
- People’s Program Bail Out Fund; Oakland, California
- Columbus Freedom Fund; Columbus, Ohio
- Mitch Gayns’s community supplies fund; donations go to Gayns, the host of Those People podcast and a Boston-based protester who is using the funds for supplies — such as snacks, Band-Aids, and flashlights — for protesters, and providing receipts for purchases on his Twitter feed.
- Isak Douah Minneapolis Gas Mask Fund; donations go to Douah, who is using the money to buy gas masks for black youth activists on the front lines to protect them against tear gas used by the police.
- Black Earth Farms Food Delivery Fund; donations go to Oakland, California–based Black Earth Farms, which is cooking and delivering food to black protesters who have been arrested, bailed, or injured.
- Mutual Aid
- Minnesota Rapid Response Coalition; Twin Cities, Minnesota
- The Lake Street Council; Minneapolis, Minnesota
- Pimento Relief Fund; Minneapolis, Minnesota
- West Broadway Business & Area Coalition; Minneapolis, Minnesota
- Rebuilding Oakland Black Businesses Fund; Oakland, California
- My Block My Hood My City; Chicago, Illinois
- Black and Brown Founders
- Black Table Arts
- Embrace Race
- Helping Educate to Advance the Rights of Deaf Communities
- Assata’s Daughters; Chicago, Illinois
- Centro de Trabajadores Unidos en la Lucha; Twin Cities, Minnesota
- Twin Cities Recovery Project; Twin Cities, Minnesota
- Black Feminist Project; New York City
- How to Support Black-Owned Small Businesses
- Integrate NYC
- GirlTrek
- Black Girls Code
- Colin Kaepernick Know Your Rights Camp
- The Conscious Kid
- Pretty Brown Girl
- Gyrl Wonder
- Fair Fight; National, but mainly Georgia
- Black Voters Matter Fund
- Woke Vote
- Higher Heights
- The Collective Political Action Committee
- George Floyd Memorial Fund
- I Run With Maud
- James Scurlock Memorial Fund
- Tony Mcdade Memorial Fund
- David McAtee Memorial Fund
- Gianna Floyd Fund
- Justice for Breonna Taylor
- Release Aging People in Prison
- No New Jails NYC
- Equal Justice Initiative
- Prison Book Program
- Dream Defenders
- NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Legal Rights Center
- Amistad Law Project
- Transgender Law Center Black LGBTQIA+ Migrant Project
- Moral Governance; San Diego, California
- Restoring Justice; Texas
- The Nina Pop and Tony McDade Mental Health Recovery Fund
- Homeless Black Trans Women Fund; Atlanta, Georgia
- Black Trans Travel Fund; New York City
- Emergency Release Fund; New York City
- F2L Relief Fund; New York State
- Black Trans Advocacy Coalition COVID-19 Community Response Grant
- For The Gworls Party; donations are collected through Venmo, PayPal, and Cash App
- House of GG; Arkansas
- Trans Justice Funding Project
- Youth Breakout; New Orleans, Louisiana
- Solutions Not Punishment; Atlanta, Georgia
- Black AIDS Institute
- Trans Cultural District; San Francisco, California
- The Audre Lorde Project; New York City
- The Marsha P. Johnson Institute
- Vocal New York; New York State
- Gays and Lesbians Living In a Transgender Society
- Princess Janae Place; New York City
- The Okra Project
- The Loveland Foundation
- Black Girl in Om
- Sista Afya
- Black Emotional and Mental Health Collective
- You Good Sis Yoga Collective
- National Queer and Trans Therapists of Color Network
- Peoples Oakland; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
- Sunshine Behavioral Health
- National Black Disability Coalition
- BET and United Way COVID-19 Relief Fund
- Mobile Outreach and Outdoor Drop-In
- Sister Song
- COVID-19 Bail Out NYC; New York City
- EMW Women’s Surgical Center
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EDUCATE (YOURSELF)
Books
Toolboxes
- How to Be an Antiracist/Ibram X. Kendi/2019
- White Fragility/Robin J. Diangelo/June 26, 2018
- Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? And Other Conversations About Race/Beverley Daniel Tatum/2017
- White Rage/Carol Anderson/2017
- Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race/Renni Eddo-Lodge/2017
- Killing Rage: Ending Racism/bell hooks/1995
- Between the World and Me/Ta-Nehisi Coates/2015
- The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness/Michelle Alexander/2010
- The World That Made New Orleans/Ned Sublette/2008
- Black Feminist Thought/Patricia Hill Collins/2000
- Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower/Brittney Cooper/2018
- Heavy: An American Memoir/Kiese Laymon/2018
- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings/Maya Angelou/1969
- Just Mercy/Bryan Stevenson/2014
- Me and White Supremacy/Layla F. Saad/2020
- Raising our Hands/Jenna Arnold/2020
- Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love, and So Much More/Janet Mock/2014
- Sister Outsider/Audrey Lord/1984
- So You Want to Talk About Race/Ijeoma Oluo/2018
- The Bluest Eye/Toni Morrison/1970
- The Fire Next Time/James Baldwin/1962
- The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century/Grace Lee Boggs, Scott Kurashige, and Danny Glover/2011
- The Warmth of Other Suns/Isabel Wilkerson/2010
- This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color/Edited by Cherríe Moraga and Gloria E. Anzaldúa/1984
- Women, Race, and Class/Angela Davis/1981
- Are Prisons Obsolete?/Angela Davis/2003
- Black Marxism: The Making of Black Radical Tradition/Cedric Robinson/1983
- Wretched of the Earth/Frantz Fanon/1961
- Black Skin, White Masks/Frantz Fanon/1952
- Common Ground/J. Anthony Lukas/1985
- Waking Up White, and Finding Myself in the Story of Race/Debby Irving/2014
- For Our White Friends Desiring to Be Allies/Courney Ariel/Aug. 16, 2017
- 75 Things White People Can Do for Racial Justice/Corinne Shutack/Aug. 13, 2017
- How White Women’s Tears Threaten Black Existence/Cameron Glover/May 15, 2018
- When Feminism is White Supremacy in Heels/Rachel Cargle/Aug. 16, 2018
- The Souls of White Folk/Stephen Jamal Leeper/ Dec. 22, 2016
- What Do We Do With White Folks?/Anthony James Williams/Feb. 4, 2019
- White People Have No Culture/Lorena Wallace/Feb. 19, 2018
- White Fragility/The Conscious Kid
- Trump Defends White-Nationalist Protesters: ‘Some Very Fine People on Both Sides’/Rosie Gray/Aug 15, 2017
- Discourse and Debate: Is performative activism inherently bad?/Kayla Abrams, Jemima Fregene, and Lana Awadallah/Mar. 26, 2019
- Amy Cooper, White Spaces and the Political Projection of Whiteness/Lara Witt/May 26, 2020/
- Food Has Always Been Political/Adam Rapaport/May 31, 2020
- The White Space/Elijah Anderson/2015
- White Supremacy Culture, From Dismantling Racism: A Workbook for Social Change/Kenneth Jones and Tema Okun/2001
- Why White People Freak Out When They’re Called Out About Race/Sam Adler-Bell/Mar 10, 2015
- The Sugarcoated Language of White Fragility/Anna Kegler/Jul. 22, 2016
- My White Friend Asked Me to Explain White Privilege/Lori Lakin Hutcherson/Sep. 8, 2017
- Teaching Your Child About Black History Month/Nefertiti Austin/Feb. 15 2018
- The Coronavirus Was an Emergency Until Trump Found Out Who Was Dying/Adam Serwer/May 8, 2020
- The 1619 Project (all articles)/New York Times Magazine
- The Combahee River Collective Statement
- The Intersectionality Wars/Jane Coaston/May 28, 2019
- Tips for Creating Effective White Caucus Groups/Craig Elliott PhD/2016
- Who Gets to Be Afraid in America/Ibram X. Kendi/May 12, 2020
- A Timeline of Events That Led to the 2020 ‘Fed Up’-rising/Michael Harriot/May 30, 2020
- “We are not okay. And you shouldn’t be either.”/Meg K. Guilford/May 31, 2020
- Remember, No One Is Coming to Save Us/Roxane Gay/May 30, 2020
- Op-Ed: Kareem Abdul Jabbar: Don’t understand the protests? What you’re seeing is people pushed to the edge/Kareem Abdul Jabbar/May 30, 2020
- How to Make this Moment the Turning Point for Real Change/Barack Obama/Jun. 1, 2020
- The Minneapolis Uprising in Context/Elizabeth Hinton/May 29, 2020
- Reckoning with white supremacy: Five fundamentals for white folks/Lovey Cooper/Jun. 1, 2020
- White People: This Is How To Check Your Privilege When Asking People Of Color For Their Labor/Sophia Stephens/July 30, 2018
- How Not To Be An Ally/Dr. Kim Case/April 19, 2019
- How To Be An Ally If You Are a Person With Privilege/Frances E. Kendall, Ph.D./2003
- White Anti-Racism: Living The Legacy/Flinn, Norman, Patel and Robles
- Women of Color in the Workplace: The Persistent Obstacles and How You Can Rise to Meet Them
- Avoiding Microaggressions in Classrooms and Online
- Antiracism Center @antiracismctr (Twitter, Instagram)
- Audre Lorde Project @audrelorde (Twitter) @audrelordeproject (Instagram)
- Black Women’s Blueprint @BlackWomensBP (Twitter) @blackwomensblueprint (Instagram)
- Color of Change @colorofchange (Twitter and Instagram)
- Colorlines @colorlines (Twitter) @colorlinesnews (Instagram)
- The Conscious Kid @consciouskidlib (Twitter) @consciouskid (Instagram)
- Equal Justice Initiative @ejl_org (Twitter and Instagram)
- The Leadership Conference on Civil & Human Rights @civilrightsorg (Twitter and Instagram)
- NAACP @naacp (Twitter and Instagram)
- Showing Up for Racial Justice @ShowUp4RJ (Twitter) @showingupforracialjustice (Instagram)
- Sistersong @sistersong_woc (Twitter and Instagram)
- United We Dream @unitedwedream (Twitter and Instagram)
- Rachel Cargle @rachel.cargle (Twitter and Instagram)
- Osheta Moore @oshetamoore (Instagram)
- Layla F. Saad @laylafsaad (Instagram)
Toolboxes
ACTIVATE
Voting Resources Petitions Protest
- How to find your local BLM protest
- Amnesty International USA - Safety During Protest
- How to Take Photos at Protests Safely—and Responsibly
- How to Stay Safe While Protesting During a Pandemic
- Know Your Rights
- Note to self: White people taking part in #BlackLivesMatter protests
- How to Protect Yourself (and Those Around You) During a Protest in a Pandemic
- How to Support Black Lives Matter Online
CONVERSE
- Eight Lessons for Talking About Race, Racism, and Racial Justice
- How to talk to your children about protests and racism
- Beyond Protests: 5 More Ways To Channel Anger Into Action To Fight Racism
- The 8 R’s of Talking About Race: How to Have Meaningful Conversations
- Discussing Race, Racism and Other Difficult Topics with Students
- We Charge Genocide Again! A Curriculum for Operation Ghetto Storm
With love & rage, we stand with you.
[Cover image by Renda Writer]