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Reclaim the Block advocates for housing, violence reduction, and moving money allocated to the police department into other avenues promoting health and safety.
Black Lives Matter works to address state-sanctioned violence against black people.
The Know Your Rights Legal Defense Fund is providing legal resources to protesters.
The Loveland Foundation - providing opportunity, access, validation and healing to black women and girls
SUPPORT BLACK OWNED BUSINESS
Directory of Black Owned Businesses
I Love Black Food - Restaurants in Portland
Black American Chamber of Commerce
BLACK SOCIAL JUSTICE LEADERS AND EDUCATORS
If you enter these spaces, please do so with respect, a listening ear, and the readiness to do the work and pay these educators for their efforts.
Rev. Angel Kyodo Williams
Adrienne Maree Brown
Layla F Saad - Me and White Supremacy
Rachel Cargle
Rachel Ricketts
Brittany Packnett Cunningham
Alishia McCullough
Ijeoma Oluo
Audre Lorde
INTRODUCTION TO BEING ANTI-RACIST (mostly for white people)
Systemic Racism Being Explained - Alex Cequea
Introduction to Race in America for White People - Michael Caloz
NEXT STEPS FOR WHITE PEOPLE
Scaffolded Anti-Racist Resource List
White Accomplices - Opportunities for White People in the Fight for Racial Justice
Raising Our Kids Better Than Us - Parenting Support
ONLINE COURSES
Free Racialized Trauma Course - Cultural Somatics Institute
WATCH
Short Videos
Deconstructing White Privilege - Dr. Robin DiAngelo (20m)
Neil Degrasse Tyson on being black in science
Before watching, please consider reading: Racial Trauma in Film: How Viewers Can address Re-traumatization
Movies
Time: The Kalief Browder Story (Netflix)
13th (Netflix)
American Son (Netflix)
Dear White People (Netflix)
If Beale St Could Talk (Hulu)
King in the Wilderness (HBO)
See You Yesterday (Netflix)
The Hate You Give (Cinemax)
When They See Us (Netflix)
Just Mercy (YouTube)
Harriet
The House I Live In
The Ground on Which I Stand [Documentary] - August Wilson
LISTEN
Podcasts
1619 (New York Times)
About Race
Code Switch (NPR)
Intersectionality Matters!
Momentum: A Race Forward Podcast
Pod Save the People
Seeing White series on Scene on Radio
Discussions and Episodes
Brené Brown + Ibran X. Kendi "How to Be an Antiracist"
Resmaa Menakem on OnBeing - “Notice the Rage; Notice the Silence.”
Smartest Person in the Room’s episode on Well Meaning White People
Side Effects of White Women Podcast Episode by Amanda Seales
READ
Articles
What is Internalized Racism - Donna K. Bivens [For BIPoC] - Read pages 43–46 OR entire eight-page document.
Ta-Nehisi Coates's The Case for Reparations
Why Seeing Yourself Represented on Screen Is So Important - Kimberley Lawson
Famous Last Words - Tim Wise
Resources for White People to Learn and Talk About Race and Racism
Aorta - Anti-Oppression Resource and Training Alliance
White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack - Peggy McIntosh
How To Talk To Someone About Privilege Who Doesn’t Know What That Is - Jamie Utt, Everyday Feminism
A Herstory of the #BlackLivesMatter Movement - Alicia Garza, The Feminist Wire
On Being White and Other Lies - James Baldwin from Essence
The Uses of Anger: Women Responding to Racism - Audre Lorde
When Feminism is White Supremacy in Heels - Rachel Elizabeth Cargle
75 Things White People Can Do for Racial Justice - Corinne Shutack
Articles About Police Brutality, the Police and Prison State
What To Do Instead of Calling the Police
The Second Amendment was ratified to preserve slavery - Thom Hartman, Alternet
Police Work Isn't as Dangerous as You May Think - Blake Fleetwood in The Huffington Post
America has locked up so many black people it has warped our sense of reality - Jeff Guo in The Washington Post
Standing Up for Our Communities: Why We Need a Police-Free Future - Rachel Herzing, Truthout
White Fear: The Single Greatest Killer of Black People in the US - Jenn M. Jackson, Water Cooler Convos
Books
My Grandmother’s Hands - Resmaa Menakem
Between the World and Me - Ta-Nehisi Coates
White Fragility - Robin DiAngelo
How to Be an Anti-Racist - Ibram X. Kendi
Me and White Supremacy - Layla F. Saad
The New Jim Crow - Michelle Alexander
Divided Sisters - Midge Wilson and Kathy Russell
The Bluest Eye - Toni Morrison
Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston
They Can’t Kill Us - Wesley Lowery
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings - Maya Angelou
Fatal Invention - Dorothy Roberts
Locking Up Our Own - James Forman
The Miner’s Canary - Lani Guiner and Gerald Torres
The Wretched of the Earth - Frantz Fanon
The Ground on Which I Stand - August Wilson
The Fire Next Time - James BaldwinSo You Want to Talk About Race - Ijeoma Oluo
The Racial Healing Handbook - Anneliese A. Singh, PhD, LPC
Healing Racial Trauma - Seila Wise Rowe
Race and Restorative Justice - Fania E. Davis
Kindred - Octavia Butler
Skill in Action - Michelle Cassandra Johnson
Love and Rage - Lama Rod Owens
Radical Dharma - Rev. Angel Kiyodo Williams & Lama Rod Owens with Jasmine Syedullah
MORE RESOURCES
Are there resources that you think should be listed here, but aren’t? We’d love to hear from you.