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:
Migizi Communications (a Native American non-profit whose building was lost in the residual fires)
Anti-Racism Resources
Anti-racism resources: Google Doc of anti-racism resources, such as articles, podcasts, parenting guides, and more.
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
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
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
