Anti-Racism Resources | Funds to support

We must all continue to hold each other accountable in dismantling and ending white supremacy so that we can all dream, build, and flourish in the loving, just systems we deserve. We call upon our white and non-Black community members to show up, educate themselves and each other, and listen and support Black people. Anti-racist work and ending anti-Blackness is our responsibility.

Funds to Support

If you can donate, here are places to support:

• Official George Lloyd Memorial Fund

• The Tony McDade Mental Health Recovery Fund

• The Nina Pop Mental Health Recovery Fund

• Anti Police-Terror Project

• Black Organizing Project

• Oakland’s People’s Breakfast

• Bay Area Anti- Repression Committee Bail Fund

• Bail Funds/Legal Help by City

• Black Futures Lab

• Minnesota Freedom Fund

• Reclaim the Block

• Black Visions Collective

• North Star Health Collective

• Louisville Bail Fund

• Migizi Communications (a Native American non-profit whose building was lost in the residual fires)

• We Love Lake Street

• CTUL 

• MPD 150

• National Bail Out Fund - Free Black Mamas

Anti-Racism Resources

• Anti-racism resources: Google Doc of anti-racism resources, such as articles, podcasts, parenting guides, and more. 

• Scaffolded Anti-Racism Resources

• Resources for Accountability and Actions for Black Lives

• #BlackTransLivesMatter: Actions & Resources for Solidarity

• Talking About Race, National Museum of African American History and Culture

• Letters for Black Lives: Templates to discuss anti-blackness to families

• Teaching for Black Lives: Curriculum and teaching resources

• #GetFreeWrites: List of writing prompts on police brutality and racist violence by the Dark Noise Collective

• Freedom Papers, An Anti-Racism Toolkit

• 10 Steps to Non-Optical Allyship

• How Latinx People Can Fight Anti-Black Racism in Our Own Culture

• Anti-Racism Trainings, Brown Folx for Brown Lives: facilitated by Latino Equity Project

• 20+ Allyship Actions for Asians to Show Up for Black Community

• Black & Asian American Feminist Solidarities: A Reading List by Black Women Radicals and the Asian American Feminist Collective

• Resources for Non-Black Asians on Anti-Blackness

Reading List

• How the U.S Got It's Police Force (Article), Time Magazine, Olivia Waxman, May 18, 2017

• Torture Trees: Police Violence from Chicago to the War on Terror by Laurence Ralph

• How to be Anti Racist by Ibram Kendi

• Freedom is a Constant Struggle by Angela Davis

• The Case for Reparations (Article) by Ta-Nehisi Coates

• Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People about Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge /Article Version in The Guardian

• The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration In The Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander

• White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk about Racism by Robin DiAngelo

• The Substance of Hope by Jelani Cobb

• Your Silence will not Protect You (Essays) by Audre Lourde

• Charleston Syllabus: Readings on Race, Racism, and Racial Violence, Editor: Chad Williams

Children's books:

• Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry by Mildred Taylor

• Something Happened in Our Town: A Child's Story about Racial Injustice by Marianne Celano

Black Wellness Resources

Here is a list wellness resources here for you that may be helpful, prioritizing resources created by and for Black people. #BlackLivesMatter

• Fearless Action : Fearless Action empowers youth and adults by encouraging and teaching self love, self discovery and confidence through dance.(Salisbury, MD)

• Healing Black Lives, A Day of Renewal for People of African Descent (Online): facilitated by OneLife Institute

• The Nap Ministry: Rest as Resistance and Reparations

• BEAM (Black Emotional and Mental Health Collective) 

• Black Girl in Om: A meditation recording for Black Girls

• Liberate Meditation: Meditation app for Black, Indigenous, People of Color

• Therapy for Black Men

• Therapy for Black Girls

• The Safe Place - Mental Health app

• National Queer and Trans Therapists of Color Network

• Real to the People: Free therapy groups for Black womxn, gender expansive people, and people of color

What it Takes to Make it Last

The thought that one day we'll meet someone in our lives worth keeping is what often keeps us searching for true love. A love that is endless and unconditional. A love that can withstand anything. A love that makes all of those past loves seem worth it because they led you to this final love.

Now in finding true love there is this crazy misconception that after you get together with this person everything will go smoothly. Like most things in life, it's just not that simple. There will be good times, there will be bad times and it's up to you both to make it work. What a lot of us lack in relationships seems to be communication. We don't know how to sit down and have a proper discussion without it turning into an argument. Now I'm not saying that there won't be arguments, because really no matter how close two people are there will be disagreements. What I am saying is that learning the proper way to communicate can make that love worth keeping.

On the other hand, we also lack listening skills, and I don't mean that in one ear and out the other kind of listening. You have to hear what they are saying and comprehend it because if you don't that is just as bad as not communicating at all. 

Communication and listening go hand in hand to make a relationship work. No more pointing the finger or going to bed mad. Sit down and have a true heart to heart conversation. Those can make or break your relationship. I mean you never know your current love could in fact be your last love. 

T. Neal | Cambridge, MD

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Disclaimer: Fenix Youth Project Inc. supports young writers and their voices and providing them with a platform to submit think pieces, poetry, short stories, and also reflect on experiences and program events. All blog posts are reviewed by the Executive Director, Amber Green. Blog posts are the opinions and reflections of writers and do not represent the organization as a whole. Questions and comments can be emailed to ambergreen@fenixyouthproject.org.