ANTI-RACISM AND JUSTICE RESOURCES

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TAKE ACTION

• REGISTER TO VOTE!
  Visit I Am a Voter to register to vote, check your registration status, and get local election reminders
• Sign petitions
• Reach out to your local government officials
• Donate
• Support Black owned businesses: several listed here, here, here, & here

BOOKS

• So You Want to Talk About Race - Ijeoma Oluo
• Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor - Layla F. Saad
• The New Jim Crow - Michelle Alexander
• White Fragility - Robin DiAngelo
• Algorithms of Oppression - Safiya Noble
• How to Be an Antiracist - Ibram X. Kendi
• Just Mercy - Bryan Stevenson
• Do the work: an anti-racist reading list - Layla F. Saad
• Check out the African American Literature Book Club, an online bookstore dedicated to books written by, or about, people of African descent in the United States and around the world.
• Black Owned Bookstores in NYC: Sisters Uptown Bookstore & The Lit. Bar
  The Lit. Bar Reading List (includes recommendations for adults and children)

ARTICLES

• The 1619 Project (also a podcast linked below)
• Call It What It Is: Anti-Blackness
• I Don’t Need ‘Love’ Texts From My White Friends
• A Guide to Allyship
• 75 Things White People Can Do for Racial Justice
• How to Talk to Your Children about Protests and Racism

WATCH

• 13th
• When They See Us
• Teach Us All
• Black America Since MLK: And Still I Rise
• LA ‘92
• Whose Streets?
• I Am Not Your Negro
• Just Mercy
• How to Deconstruct Racism, One Headline at a Time
• How to Recognize Your White Privilege - and use it to fight inequality

LISTEN

• The 1619 Project
• Floodlines
• The Anxious Achiever: Discomfort, Anxiety, and Grief: Confronting Racism with Colleague
• Code Switch
• The Diversity Gap
• Intersectionality Matters
• Groundings
• Good Ancestor Podcast
• Ibram X. Kendi: Building an Anti-Racist Society

MORE

• For members and allies of the LGBTQIA+ community: 14 Black funds and 23 creative ecosystems to support, from Annika Hansteen-Izora.
• #DoTheWork 30 Day Course by Rachel Cargle
• Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: A Professional Development Offering of the eXtension Foundation Impact Collaborative
• Good Ancestor Academy by Layla F Saad: Personal Leadership and Anti-Racism Classes for becoming a Good Ancestor
• Real: In light of the ongoing fight for justice Real is offering free therapy services to the public.
• The Loveland Therapy Fund: provides financial assistance to Black women and girls nationally seeking therapy. (also accepting donations)
• A twitter thread of licensed therapists offering free services for Black community members: https://twitter.com/ajscribes/status/1267142268571410433
• This post from @yourbuddymeg includes several organizations and resources for the collective trauma in the Black community. (organizations are also accepting donations)
• A comprehensive resource from Girls’ Night In
• This anti-racism document compiled by Sarah Sophie Flicker and Alyssa Klein provides articles, books, films, and videos, podcasts and organizations to follow.
• National Resource and Education Tool includes books, articles, media, podcasts and resources for actions to take.
• 7 courses that teach anti-racism.

Credit Universal Standard for this powerful compilation. Please add additional resources in the comments.