If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.
- Desmond Tutu
This is a compilation of resources by Black and Indigenous leaders gathered to help us —white folks in particular— unlearn racism and colonialism, and take action for justice.
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Voices
A selection of activists, journalists, educators and leaders to learn from. Please follow and amplify their work, and pay for their services and wisdom. We are not owed their learnings, nor efforts. The full directory can be found here.
To Get Started
adrienne maree brown
Author, activist, doula and Black feminist. Author of Emergent Strategy and Pleasure Activism
t : @adriennemaree
ig : @adriennemareebrown
Allen Salway
Non-binary Diné, Oglala Lakota, Tohono O'odham writer and community organizer. Connection to many resources
t : @lilnativeboy
ig : @dlilnativeboy
Brittany Packnett Cunningham
Activist, educator and writer. Creator of Love + Power, Co-founder of Campaign Zero and co-host of Pod Save the People
t : @MsPackyetti
ig : @mspackyetti
Ibram X. Kendi
Author of How to be Anti-Racist, Executive Director of The Antiracist Research & Policy Center, and writer at The Atlantic
t : @DrIbram
ig : @ibramxk
Michelle Alexander
Author of The New Jim Crow and contributor to the New York Times
t : @thenewjimcrow
Mona Chalabi
Data journalist, writer and multimedia artist
t : @MonaChalabi
ig : @monachalabi
Nicole Hannah-Jones
Pulitzer Prize Winning writer at the New York Times.
t : @nhannahjones
ig : @opalayo
Nikki La'es
Wilderness and indigenous educator, speaker and activist
t : @nikkilaes
ig : @nikkilaes
Patrisse Cullors
Artist, organizer and freedom fighter. Co-Founder of Black Lives Matter and the Founder of Dignity and Power Now. Co-Author of When They Call You a Terrorist
t : @OsopePatrisse
Rachel Ricketts
Racial Justice speaker, healer and author. Offering Spiritual Activism workshop series and online courses
ig : @iamrachelricketts
Dr. Shay-Akil McLean
Decolonizing science and exploring the sociology of race/ism
t : @Hood_Biologist
ig : @hood_biologist
Stacey Ann Chin
Poet, playwright, actress, and performing artist. Author of Crossfire: A Litany For Survival and The Other Side of Paradise.
ig : @staceyannchin
Tokatawin Iron Eyes
Indigenous Youth Activist
ig : @tokatawin
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Organizations
A selection of organizations working to address overt and systemic racism through education, policy and activism. Follow and donate where you can. The full directory can be found here.
Boards and leadership teams without a Black or Indigenous majority are identified as such.
To Get Started
ACLU
Nonprofit legal and advocacy organization, including racial justice (Board of Directors: Black Minority)
t : @aclu
ig : @aclu_nationwide
Antiracist Research & Policy Center
Producing knowledge for change's sake in collaboration with scholars, journalists, policy makers and advocates
t : @AntiracismCtr
Audre Lorde Project
Community organizing center for LGBTSTGNC people of color communities
t : @audrelorde
ig : @audrelordeproject
Transforming Black communities by building Black political power through training and engagement. Access voting resources and their Black to the Ballot initiative
t : @blackfutureslab
ig : @blackfutureslab
Alliance for maternal health, rights and justice for Black women. Access their resources and find your local chapter
t : @blkmamasmatter
ig : @blackmamasmatter
Black youth creating justice and freedom for Black people
t : @byp100
ig : @byp100
Using data science to create concrete and measurable change in the lives of Black people
t : @data4blacklives
ig : @data4blacklives
Working to end mass incarceration, excessive punishment and racial inequality
t : @eji_org
ig : @eji_org
Coalition working to permanently end the separation and detention of families
t : @fams2gether
ig : @fams2gether
A free campaign for youth funded by Colin Kaepernick to raise awareness on self-empowerment and interacting with law enforcement
t : @yourrightscamp
America's first and largest grassroots–based civil rights organization. Support their Legal Defense Fund
t : @naacp
ig : @naacp
Immigrant and refugee education and legal services (Leadership Team: Predominantly Latinx and White)
t : @raicestexas
ig : @raicestexas
Indigenous folx leading radical decolonizing change through the support of political engagement, land resilience, storytelling, ending violence against indigenous women, connecting frontlines, and youth education
ig : @seedingsovereignty
Combats hate, intolerance, and discrimination through education and litigation. Access their resources
t : @splcenter
ig : @splcenter
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Read
Articles and books centering race, culture and colonialism. The full directory can be found here.
Articles To Get Started
Confronting Racism is Not About the Needs and Feelings of White People, Ijeoma Oluo
Decolonization is for Everyone, Nikki La'es (YouTube)
How White Women Use Themselves as Instruments of Terror, Charles Blow
So You Want to Fight White Supremacy, Ijeoma Oluo
My Life as an Undocumented Immigrant, Jose Antonio Vargas
Thanksgiving: The National Day of Mourning, Allen Salway
The American Nightmare, Ibram X. Kendi
The Case for Reparations, Ta-Nehisi Coates
The Unmattering of Black Lives, Kimberlé Crenshaw
The Year I Gave Up White Comfort: An Ode to my White "Friends" on Being Better to Black Womxn, Rachel Ricketts
Who Gets to be Afraid in America, Ibram X. Kendi
Your White Education, Tiffany Jana
Books To Get Started
Americanah, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
An Indigenous People's History of the United States, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates
How To Be Antiracist, Ibram X, Kendi
So You Wanna Talk About Race, Ijeoma Oluo
The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison
The History of White People, Nell Irvin Painter
The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House, Audre Lorde
The New Jim Crow, Michelle Alexander
The Skin We're In: A Year of Black Resistance and Power, Desmond Cole
The Warmth of Other Suns, Isabel Wilkerso
When They Call You a Terrorist, Patrisse Cullors & ashe bandele
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Listen
Podcasts that explore race, culture and colonialism. Find the full directory here.
To Get Started
1619
Hosted by Pulitzer Prize winner, Nikole Hannah-Jones, the New York Times' podcast on the long shadow of slavery in America
Hosted by Shereen Marisol Meraji and Gene Denbyn, NPR's podcast on race, culture and ethnicity
Homeland Insecurity: How Fear Changed America
The unwritten history of the Department of Homeland Security
Hosted by Andre Henry, exploring practical insight on racial justice and social change
DeRay Mckesson explores news, culture, social justice, and politics with fellow activists Brittany Packnett Cunningham and Sam Sinyangwe, and Dr. Clint Smith
Murdered & Missing Indigenous Women & Girls
A comprehensive collection of podcasts, radio episodes and recordings on the history of murdered and missing Indigenous women and girls in Canada
A podcast on whiteness in America, hosted by John Biewen (white host) and Dr. Chenjerai Kumanyika
Trying to understand the pleasures and pathologies of America through popular culture, hosted by New York Times Culture Critics Wesley Morris and Jenna Wortham
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Parenting
Resources for raising anti-racist kids. The full directory can be found here.
To Get Started
The Conscious Kid
Parenting and education through a critical race lens. Hosting conversations with authors, academics, and activists around equity, education, and literature
t : @consciouskidlib
ig : @theconsciouskid
Providing tools, resources, discussion spaces and networks to build resilience in children of color and raise kids that think critically about race. Reads their book recommendations and access their resources
t : @raceembrace
ig : @embracerace
Rooted in Afrofuturism and supporting Black parents in raising Black children without fear. Listen to their podcast
A digital project that explores the relationship between parenting and structural oppression. Listen to their podcast, particularly their episodes on parenting and white supremacy
Exploring privilege and power in relationships with children. Listen to their podcast which centers Black and Indigenous people in liberatory living and learning practices
ig : @fareofthefreechild
How to Talk to Kids About Race
An overview of talking to kids about race and resources to support the process by Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich
A series of youth-led webinars on extraction, eminent domain, missing and murdered indigenous women, and mental health
ig : @seedingsovereignty
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Artists
Artists confronting and challenging questions of race, culture and colonialism. The full directory can be found here.
To Get Started
DJ and Producer crew A Tribe Called Red
Filmmaker, Ava Duvernay
Afrofuturist, technologist and artist, Ayodamola Tanimowo Okunseinde
Multimedia artist, Brian Jungen
Multidisciplinary artist, Cannupa Hanska
Multimedia artist, Carl Pope
Photographer and multimedia artist, Carrie Mae Weems
Painter, photographer, performance and multimedia artist, Chella Man
Multimedia artist, Edgar Heap of Birds
Painter and multimedia artist, Jammie Holmes
Multimedia artist, Kara Walker
Painter, Kehinde Wiley
Photographer, Latoya Ruby Frazier
Painter, Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun
Sculptor and performing artist, Nari Ward
Futurist and multidisciplinary artist, SantiagoX
Multidisciplinary artist, Sonny Assu
Photographer and filmmaker, Tyler Mitchell
Comedian and writer, W. Kamau Bell
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Act
Things you can do right now to actively fight racism.
Bank with Black financial institutions
Be a good bystander
Buy from Black creatives, all-natural Black artisans, Black women, and Black owned businesses here and here and here
Buy from Black owned bookstores
Buy from Indigenous owned businesses here and here
Contact your congressional representative through NAACP about calling for justice reform, economic justice, and the preservation of voting rights
Do these: 75 Things White People Can do for Racial Justice (Corinne Shutack, white author)
Divest from your bank if it is invested in the Dakota Access Pipeline
Explore resources on Decolonization (Ari Sahagún and Jay Saper)
Follow Black Food Bloggers, Young Black Artists, and Black Photographers
Hire Black designers
Host a workshop on algorithmic bias
Invest in Black women's leadership
Join the NAACP in We Are Done Dying
Learn about the pervasive and immersive culture of white supremacy (Tema Okun)
Learn about decolonizing design from Anoushka Khandwala and Ramon Tejada
Learn about Transformative Justice (Mia Mingus)
Learn how to be an Indigenous Ally (Dakota Swiftwolfe)
Learn which traditional indigenous territory you are currently on
Learn why it's problematic to appropriate Black language and learn alternative vocab instead
Memorialize victims of racial violence through the Community Remembrance Project
Participate in these 26 Ways to Be in the Struggle Beyond the Streets. Compiled by Piper Anderson, Kay Ulanday Barrett, Ejeris Dixon, Ro Garrido, Emi Kane, Bhavana Nancherla, deesha narichani, Sabelo Narasimhan, Amir Rabiyah, Meejin Seol Richart,
Provide support and (literal) space for healing justice events and practices (adrienne maree brown)
Read the books in Noname's Book Club
Sign up for Andre Henry's newsletter on creating an anti-racist societ
Support Black political candidates
Take a deep dive into the Fantasy World Master List of Resources on How to Dismantle Systemic Racism and Jasmine Mitchell's Antiracism Packet
Take an inventory and examine how you move through the world as a white man (Tatiana Mac)
Take an inventory and examine how you move through the world as a white woman (Tatiana Mac)
TakeTen Steps to Non-Optical Allyship (Mireille Cassandra Harper)
Understand Land Reparations
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Legal System
The legal system disproportionately harms Black and Indigenous people. Learn about the relationship between racism and the legal system, from police violence to mass incarceration. Support movements and organizations fighting these inequities. The full directory can be found here.
To Start
A campaign and agenda to end police violence in America. Learn about the problem and comprehensive solutions
t : @join_campaign_0
A data project mapping police violence
A campaign to end youth incarceration, focusing on the racial disparity of incarcerated kids (Team: Minority Black and Latinx)
Preventing incarceration and combatting racial and economic disparities in the bail system (Board: Black Minority, Advisory Board: Black Majority)
t : @bailproject
ig : @bailproject
Exonerates the wrongly convicted through DNA testing and reforms the criminal justice system to prevent future injustice
t : @innocence
ig : @innocenceproject
The National Bail Fund Network
A directory of community bail funds
Journalism about the U.S. criminal justice system. Explore their projects: Election 2020, We are Witnesses, Next to Die (Board and Editorial Board: Black Minority, Publishes annual diversity report here)
t : @marshallproj
The Sentencing Project
Promoting reform in sentencing reform and advocating for alternatives to incarceration. Learn about the issues and data
t : @SentencingProj
Articles To Start
A Black Trans Man, Tony McDade, Was Killed by Police in Florida, Devin-Norelle
A White Damsel Leveraged Racial Power and Failed, Ruby Hamad (white author)
Carceral Capitalism, Jackie Wang
How Segregration Shapes Fatal Police Violence, Gene Demby
Police Brutality is its Own Pandemic, Liam Riley
Police Brutality, Misconduct and Shootings, New York Times Compilation
Transformative Justice Explained, Kim Tran
We are Living in the Age of Black Panic Defense, Jelani Cobb
Actions To Start
Ask congress to support Second Look legislation
Call on Louisville for Justice for Breonna
Contact your representatives to hold them accountable and ask what they are doing about police violence
Contact your congressional representative through NAACP about calling for Justice Reform
Explore The Record, a curation of the best criminal justice reporting
Learn about prison labor as slavery
Learn about alternatives to calling the police
Learn about racial disparity in the justice system
Listen to Code Switch's A Decade of Watching People Die
Track progress of legislation through Campaign Zero
Watch Jim Crow Juvenile Justice
Watch Slavery to Mass Incarceration
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COVID-19
COVID-19 has disproportionately impacted Black, Indigenous and Immigrant communities as a result of racism, xenophobia and inequality. Support movements and organizations taking action to protect people of color during the pandemic. The full directory can be found here.
Black Lives Matter
Access resources and sign petitions
Tracking in real time how COVID is affecting people of color the most.
t : @COVID19Tracking
Providing extensive resources for COVID youth justice advocacy (Team: Minority Black and Latinx)
The National Bail Fund Network
Donate to the COVID Rapid Response Fund
The Marshall Project
Covering the impact of COVID in prisons (Board and Editorial Board: Black Minority, Publishes annual diversity report here)
The Sentencing Project
Tracking COVID-19 cases amongst incarcerated youth
t : @SentencingProj
COVID resource for the immigrant community. Calling on full COVID testing independent of immigration status (Leadership Team: Predominantly Latinx)
Take Action
Call a governor to demand for COVID testing independent of immigration status
Contact your congressional representative through NAACP about securing voting systems that are COVID secure
Demand racial data on COVID
Explore current COVID and the criminal justice system reporting
Learn how COVID is impacting those incarcerated
Listen to Ask Code Switch: The Corona Virus Edition
Listen to The News Behind the COVID Numbers
Read about decolonizing parenting during COVID
Read about how race changed the urgency of the COVID response
Support the ACLU in protecting for mail-in voting and fighting vulnerable populations in prisons and immigration detention centers
Watch Black Women on the Politics of COVID
Read & Listen
Covid-19 Fueling Anti-Asian Racism and Xenophobia Worldwide, Human Rights Watch
Let Our People Go, Michelle Alexander
For Families Already Stretched to the Limit, the Pandemic Is a Disaster, Nikole Hannah-Jones
We're finally recognizing the workers who have always been "essential", Recode Decode (podcast episode)
When Xenophobia Spreads Like A Virus, Code Switch (podcast episode)
Why Is the Pandemic Killing So Many Black Americans?, The Daily (podcast episode)
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Protest + Uprising
Help support the folks protesting violence against Black bodies and the loss of Black lives.
Act as a white barrier between Black protesters and police. Be a virtual protester. Learn how to be safe while protesting from Women for Political Change and Amnesty International. Learn your rights as a protester from the ACLU. Bear witness by learning how to take protest photography.
Beyond the Streets
Participate in these 26 ways to support protest. Compiled by Piper Anderson, Kay Ulanday Barrett, Ejeris Dixon, Ro Garrido, Emi Kane, Bhavana Nancherla, deesha narichani, Sabelo Narasimhan, Amir Rabiyah, Meejin Seol Richart,
Black Visions Collective
BVC is no longer accepting donations at this time after a very successful raise. They are asking you to now redirect your funds to one of the other organizations listed.
Working towards creating a political home for Black people in Minnesota
t : @blackvisionsmn
#GeorgeFloyd Resource Compilation
Comprehensive compilation of news, actions and education sources on George Floyd, protests, and connected history
Know Your Rights Camp Legal Defense Initiative
Funding the defense of Freedom Fighters across the US following protests
t : @yourrightscamp
ig : @yourrightscamp
Minneapolis Freedom Fund
MFF has raised 20M this week. They are asking you to now redirect your funds to one of the other organizations listed. The leadership of the organization is also white.
Supporting Black youth led movements and paying for the criminal bails for those protesting the murder of George Floyd
ig : @mnfreedomfund
Document of community bail funds, memorial funds, political education resources
The National Bail Fund Network
Find your local bail fund to help keep protesters from being incarcerated
RTB is no longer accepting donations at this time after a very successful raise. They are asking you to now redirect your funds to one of the other organizations listed.
A coalition to demand that Minneapolis divest from policing and invest in sustainable, just alternatives
ig : @reclaimtheblock