TAKE ACTION: Resources

May 28

How to help: Funds, petitions, collectives and anti-racism resources for taking action. We will continue to update this list regularly. If you have any suggestions please do not hesitate to contact us.

ACTION ITEMS

Ask yourself what you can do to support people of colour in your community.
Educate yourself and read up on what it means to be anti-racist.
Ask yourself how you can be actively anti-racist instead of simply “not racist”.
Share and repost resources to educate those around you.
Don’t centre the narrative around you.
Identify privilege and condemn it.
Stop supporting organisations that promote hate.
Be an ally and advocate after the outrage ends.
Continue to donate, to fund and support initiatives you care about if you have the means.

Influential Instagram Profiles:

@museummammy

@the_underboobcommons

@desti.knee - curator

@laylafsaad

@nowhitesaviors

@rachel.cargle

@katycatalyst

@thegreatunlearn

@akalamusic

@ckyourprivilege

@iamrachelricketts

@roiannenedd

@renieddolodge

@thisisyolandarenteria

@mspackyetti

@shishi.rose

@ihartericka

@austinchanning

@cleowade

@Indyamoore

@_stormae

@domrobxrts

@georgethepoet

Artist/Aggregate Handles:

@buyfrombipoc

@kambuiolujimi

@k8deciccio

@shirien.creates

@deedsweaves

@jitterbug_art

@taxali

@calidagarciarawles

@kiyanwilliams

@mafaldamondestin

@floyd_strickland

@mwana.wevhu

@tinysplendor

@hamedhazel

@sacree_frangine

@cedricsmithstudio

@ohhappydani

@mongequentin

@asherald

@tunjiaj

@angeloruta

@ninachanel

@devanshimoyama

@amoakoboafo

@tschabalalaself

@bisabutler

@rdeborah191

@jholmes214

@lornasimpson

@omar_viktor

@anamibia

@youngguru763

@flash9

@jordanmcasteel

@amoakoboafo

@Kara_walker_official

@muholizanele

@ringgoldfaith

@lubainapics

@cammockhelen

@joylabinjo

@arcmanoro

@kenturah

@geraldlovell

@somayacritchlow

@helenloveallotey

@pepper_coast

@robiwalters

@pig.malion

Photographer Handles:

@anthonybgeathers

@byalexisshunley

@coco.butter.shutter

@demetrius.freeman

@jdthecombo

@khickmanphotography

@infi_nerdy

@michaelnoblejr

@lytevisuals

@malikesidibe

@mark.c

@sbmaneyphoto

@acjphoto

@tonemobley

@vanessa.charlot

@phobymo

@henryjkeith

@julythephotoguy

@slate_mk.2

@jolivert

@simoneyvetteleigh

@logancyrus

An extensive list of Anti Racism Resources

To Watch:

Streaming

13th Ava Duvernay

AMERICAN SON Kenny Leon

DEAR WHITE PEOPLE Justin Simien

SEE YOU YESTERDAY Stefon Bristol

WHEN THEY SEE US Ava Duvernay

IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK Barry Jenkins

THE HATE U GIVE George Tillman Jr.

Rental

BLACK POWER MIXTAPE: 1967 – 1975 CLEMENCY Chinonye Chukwu

FRUITVALE STATION Ryan Coogler

I AM NOT YOUR NEGRO James Baldwin Documentary

JUST MERCY Destin Daniel Cretton

SELMA Ava Duvernay

THE BLACK PANTHERS: VANGUARD OF THE REVOLUTION PARIS IS BURNINGA LITANY FOR SURVIVAL: THE LIFE AND WORK OF AUDRE LORDE https://trakt.tv/movies/a-litany-for-survival-the-life-and-work-of-audre-lorde-1995

BLACK IS...BLACK AINT https://vimeo.com/ondemand/blackisblackaint

COLOR ADJUSTMENT https://vimeo.com/ondemand/coloradjustment

THE RADIANT CHILD https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMkkkf_MPw4

FRESH DRESSED https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XFOPSchjUU

KEHINDE WILEY: AN ECONOMY OF GRACE https://www.amazon.com/Kehinde-Wiley-Economy-Jeff-Dupre/dp/B00N0MRFVW

Reading Material:

THIS IS WHAT I KNOW ABOUT ART by Kimberly Drew Token Magazine @tokenmagazine “featuring under-represented writers & artists”

ELOQUENT RAGE: A BLACK FEMINIST DISCOVERS HER SUPERPOWER by Dr. Brittney Cooper

WHO DO YOU SERVE, WHO DO YOU PROTECT: POLICE VIOLENCE AND RESISTANCE IN THE UNITED STATES A Truthout Collection – AVAILABLE FREE ONLINE

I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS by Maya Angelou

THEIR EYES WERE WATCHING GOD by Zora Neal Hurston

THE FIRE NEXT TIME by James Baldwin

ME AND WHITE SUPREMACY by Layla Saad

IM STILL HERE: BLACK DIGNITY IN A WORLD MADE FOR WHITENESS by Austin Channing Brown

SISTER OUTSIDER by Audre Lorde

JUST MERCY by Bryan Stevenson

HEAVY: AN AMERICAN MEMOIR by Kiese Laymon

BLACK FEMINIST THOUGHT by Patricia Hill Collins

HOW TO BE AN ANTIRACIST by Ibram X. Kendi

SO YOU WANT TO TALK ABOUT RACE by Ijeoma Oluo

THE BLUEST EYE by Toni Morrison

THE NEW JIM CROW: MASS INCARCERATION IN THE AGE OF COLORBLINDNESS by Michelle Alexander

THE NEXT AMERICAN REVOLUTION: SUSTAINABLE ACTIVISM FOR THE TWENTY FIRST CENTURY by Grace Lee Boggs

THE WARMTH OF OTHER SUNS by Isabel Wilkerson

THIS BRIDGE CALLED MY BACK: WRITINGS BY RADICAL WOMEN OF COLOR by Cherríe Moraga

WHITE FRAGILITY: WHY ITS SO HARD FOR WHITE PEOPLE TO TALK ABOUT RACISM by Robin Diangelo

PhD THE HISTORY OF WHITE PEOPLE by Nell Irvin Painter

RECONSTRUCTION by Eric Foner

ARE PRISONS OBSOLETE? By Angela Y. Davis

FEAR ITSELF by Ira Katznelson

A DIFFERENT MIRROR by Ronald Takaki

THE PRICE FOR THEIR POUND OF FLESH by Daina Ramey Berry

HOW CAPITALISM UNDERDEVELOPED BLACK AMERICA by Manning Marable

THE COLOR OF MONEY by Mehrsa Baradaran

WHITE RAGE by Carol Anderson

THE WARMTH OF OTHER SUNS by Isabel Wilkerson

STAMPED FROM THE BEGINNING by Ibram X. Kendi

FREDERICK DOUGLASS: PROPHET OF FREEDOM by David Blight

EVICTED by Matthew Desmond

WOMEN RACE & CLASS by Angela Y. Davis

NO WIN RACE by Derek A. Bardowell How White People Can Hold Each Other Accountable to Stop Institutional Racism by Teen Vogue.

The racist roots of American policing: From slave patrols to traffic stops by the Conversation.

THEY CAN'T KILL US ALL by Wesley Lowery

FREEDOM IS A CONSTANT STRUGGLE by Angela Y. Davis

YOUR SILENCE WILL NOT PROTECT YOU by Audre Lorde

BELOVED by Toni Morrison

RACISM WITHOUT RACISTS by Eduardo Bonilla-Silva The Black Arts Movement: Literary Nationalism in the 1960’s and 1970’s - James Edward Smethurst
New Thoughts on the Black Arts Movement - Lisa Gail Collins

Children’s Books:

MALCOLM LITTLE: THE BOY WHO GREW UP TO BECOME MALCOLM X by Ilyasah Shabazz, illustrated by AG Ford

WHAT IS RACE? WHO ARE RACISTS? WHY DOES SKIN COLOR MATTER? AND OTHER BIG QUESTIONS by Claire Heuchan and Nikesh Shukla

NOT QUITE SNOW WHITE by Ashley Franklin, Illustrated by Ebony Glenn

SULWE by Lupita Nyong’o, Illustrated by Vashti Harrison

LITTLE LEADERS: BOLD WOMEN IN BLACK HISTORY by Vashti Harrison

LET IT SHINE: STORIES OF BLACK WOMEN FREEDOM FIGHTERS by Andrea Davis Pinkney

SOMETHING HAPPENED IN OUR TOWN: A CHILD’S STORY ABOUT RACIAL INJUSTICE by Marianne Celano, Marietta Collins, and Ann Hazzard, Illustrated by Jennifer Zivoin

MY HAIR IS A GARDEN by Cozbi A. Cabrera

HAIR LOVE by Matthew A. Cherry, Illustrated by Vashti Harrison

SEPARATE IS NEVER EQUAL by Duncan Tonatiuh

SCHOMBURG: THE MAN WHO BUILT A LIBRARY by Carole Boston Weatherford, Illustrated by Eric Velasquez

THE DAY YOU BEGIN by Jacqueline Woodson, Illustrated by Rafael López

MOSES: WHEN HARRIET TUBMAN LED HER PEOPLE TO FREEDOM by Carole Boston Weatherford, illustrated by Kadir Nelson

HAPPY IN OUR SKIN by Fran Manushkin, illustrated by LAUREN Tobia

VOICE OF FREEDOM: SPIRIT OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT by Carole Boston Weatherford