Black Lives Matter. In an effort to enact change, confront racism, and support the Black community, we’ve created the Guide to Solidarity, a collaborative list of resources aimed to educate people on how to create safer, stronger, and more inclusive spaces for Black people, minorities, and people of color. All ideas are welcome, so please consider suggesting new resources or sections in the comments.
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Table of Contents
Click on the links to take you to more detailed lists and resources below.
📖Reading Material
- Books
- Articles
- Books for children
- Books for teens
💻Other Media
- Podcasts
- Videos
- Movies
- TV shows
- Social media accounts
- Podcasts, shows, & movies for children
❤️Organizations to support and join
- Allyship
- Protestor bail funds
- Memorial funds
- Charitable organizations
- Petitions to sign
🧒Resources for parents
- Talk to your children about racism
- Teach your children to be an ally
🧠Mental Health Resources
- National hotlines
- Organizations
Books
- How To Be An Antiracist – Ibram X. Kendi
- So You Want To Talk About Race – Ijeoma Oluo
- The New Jim Crow – Michelle Alexander
- When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir – Asha Bandele and Patrisse Cullors
- Me and White Supremacy – Layla Saad
- Stamped From the Beginning – Ibram X. Kendi
- White Tears/Brown Scars – Ruby Hamad
- The Nickel Boys – Colson Whitehead
- Emergent Strategy – Adrienne Maree Brown
- Between the World and Me – Ta-Nehisi Coates
- Citizen – Claudia Rankine
- Race Matters – Cornel West
- Black Feminist Thought– Patricia Hill Collins
- Ebony & Ivy– Craig Steven Wilder
- Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower – Brittney Cooper
- Raising Our Hands – Jenna Arnold
- The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century – Grace Lee Boggs, Scott Kurashige
- The Fire Next Time – James Baldwin
- The Warmth of Other Suns – Isabel Wilkerson
- This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color – Cherríe Moraga
- When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America – Ira Katznelson
- White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism – Robin DiAngelo, PhD
- Hair Story: Untangling the roots of Black Hair in America– Ayana D. Byrd and Lori L. Tharps
- Heavy: An American Memoir – Kiese Laymon
- Elizabeth’s Bookshop and Writing Center’s #Revolution Reading List
- The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace – Jeff Hobbs
- The Autobiography of Malcolm X – Malcolm X
Articles
- “How to Change Ourselves to Grow as Allies” – Corey Ponder
- “How to be an Ally in the Office” – Natalie Stevens
- “Why Diversity Matters” – Vivian Hunt, Dennis Layton, and Sara Prince
- “America’s Racial Contract Is Killing Us” – Adam Serwer | Atlantic (May 8, 2020)
- Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement (Mentoring a New Generation of Activists
- ”My Life as an Undocumented Immigrant” – Jose Antonio Vargas | NYT Mag (June 22, 2011)
- The 1619 Project (all the articles) | The New York Times Magazine
- The Combahee River Collective Statement
- A Letter to Asians
- “The Intersectionality Wars” – Jane Coaston | Vox (May 28, 2019)
- Tips for Creating Effective White Caucus Groups – developed by Craig Elliott PhD
- ”White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack” – Knapsack Peggy McIntosh
- “Who Gets to Be Afraid in America?” – Dr. Ibram X. Kendi | Atlantic (May 12, 2020)
- “Maintaining Professionalism In The Age of Black Death Is….A Lot”
- The Quiet Casualties of the Movement for Black Lives – John Eligon (March 2018)
- There’s one epidemic we may never find a vaccine for: fear of black men in public spaces – John Blake (May 2020)
- Shaun King Keeps Raising Money, and Questions about Where It Goes – Kali Holloway, (May 2020)
- Save the Tears: White Woman’s Guide
- Dazed Digital: Anti-Racism Resources
- How to Protest Safely During a Pandemic
- Does Military Equipment lead police officers to be more violent? – Ryan Welch and Jack Mewhirter (June 2017)
- Two Crises Convulse a Nation: A Pandemic and Police Violence – Jack Healy and Dionne Searcey (May 2020)
- How to Protest Safely During a Pandemic – Katie Way (June 2020)
- Addressing Anti-Black Microaggressions in Filipino Families – E. J. R. David Ph.D. (June 2020)
Books for children
- A is for Activist – Innosanto Nagara
- The Power Book : What is it Who Has it and Why? – Roxanne Gay
- Let’s Talk About Race – Julius Lester and Karen BarBour
- Skin Again – Bells Hooks, Chris Raschka
- The Colors of Us – Karen Katz
- Brick by Brick – Giuliano Ferri
- The Skin You Live In – Michael Tyler and David Lee Csicsko
- An ABC of Equality – Chana Ginelle Ewing and Paulina Morgan
- Something Happened in Our Town – Marianne Celano
- Missing Daddy – Mariame Kaba
- Raising White Kids – Bringing Up Children in a Racially Unjust World – Jennifer Harvey
- Coretta Scott King Book Award Winners: books for children and young adults
- 31 Children’s books to support conversations on race, racism and resistance
Books for teens
- This Book is Anti-Racist: 20 Lessons On How to Wake Up, Take Action, And Do The Work – Tiffany Jewell and Aurelia Durand
- Say Her Name – Zetta Elliott
Podcasts
- 1619 is a New York Times audio series, hosted by Nikole Hannah-Jones, that examines the long shadow of American slavery
- Code Switch NPR reporters, editors and guest contributors, the podcast will invite listeners to re-examine their perspectives about race and identity in ways that might inspire, entertain and challenge them.
- Parenting Forward podcast episode ‘Five Pandemic Parenting Lessons with Cindy Wang Brandt’
- Fare of the Free Child podcast
- PBS’s Teaching Your Child About Black History Month
- Your Kids Aren’t Too Young to Talk About Race: Resource Roundup from Pretty Good
- About Race
- Momentum: A Race Forward Podcast
- Seeing White
- Pod For The Cause (from The Leadership Conference on Civil & Human Rights)
- Integrated Schools podcast episode “Raising White Kids with Jennifer Harvey”
- Justice in America
- Angela Davis’s talk at the Southbank Center – 2017
- The Color of Fear – 1994
- The Appeal – “A podcast on criminal justice reform, abolition and everything in between”
Videos
- Allyship is the Key to Social Justice, Whitney Parnell at TEDx Talks
- Are You Biased? I Am, Kristen Pressner at TEDx Talk
- The Urgency of Intersectionality, Kimberlé Crenshaw at TEDWomen
- The Paradox of Diversity, Dr. Marilyn Sanders Mobley at TEDx Talks
- Black Feminism & the Movement for Black Lives, Barbara Smith, Reina Gossett, Charlene Carruthers
- How Studying Privilege Systems Can Strengthen Compassion, Peggy McIntosh at TEDxTimberlaneSchools
- A Class Divided– Frontline
- How Southern socialites rewrote Civil War history – VOX Media
Movies
- Just Mercy – book and movie
- 13th – Netflix
- American Son (Kenny Leon) — Netflix
- Black Power Mixtape: 1967-1975 — Available to rent
- Clemency (Chinonye Chukwu) — Available to rent
- Fruitvale Station (Ryan Coogler) — Available to rent
- I Am Not Your Negro (James Baldwin doc) — Available to rent or on Kanopy
- If Beale Street Could Talk (Barry Jenkins) — Hulu or Google Play
- King In The Wilderness — HBO
- See You Yesterday (Stefon Bristol) — Netflix
- Selma (Ava DuVernay) — Available to rent
- The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution — Available to rent
- The Hate U Give (George Tillman Jr.) — Hulu with Cinemax
- When They See Us (Ava DuVernay) — Netflix
TV shows
- Dear White People (Justin Simien) — Netflix
- Explained: The Racial Wealth Gap – Netflix
Social media accounts
- Ibram X. Kendi – Twitter | Instagram
- Eddie S. Glaude Jr. – Twitter | Instagram
- Brittany Packnett Cunningham – Twitter | Instagram
- Healing While Black – Twitter | Instagram
- Akonadi Foundation – Twitter | Instagram
- Antiracism Center: Twitter
- Audre Lorde Project: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
- Black Women’s Blueprint: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
- Color Of Change: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
- Colorlines: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
- The Conscious Kid: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
- Equal Justice Initiative (EJI): Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
- Families Belong Together: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
- The Leadership Conference on Civil & Human Rights: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
- MPowerChange: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
- Muslim Girl: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
- NAACP: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
- National Domestic Workers Alliance: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
- RAICES: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
- Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ): Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
- SisterSong: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
- United We Dream: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
Podcasts, shows, & movies for children
Data Sets
- Fatal Encounters
- Mapping Police Violence
- Coronavirus Cases in NYC
- Police Use of Force Project
- Center for the Study of Racism, Social Justice, and Health
❤️Organizations to support and join
Allyship
- Anti-Racist Alliance
- PISAB
- 10 steps to Non-Optical Allyship (This is a graphic I found on Twitter. It should be a thread of about 3 tweets once you click the link)
- Twitter thread on Black owned businesses
- Black Owned Brooklyn – a one stop shop for black businesses in Brooklyn
- Black Owned Restaurants in NYC
Protestor bail funds
- National Bail Out – https://secure.actblue.com/donate/freeblackmamas2020
- Minnesota Freedom Fund – https://minnesotafreedomfund.org/
- Bail Project – https://bailproject.org/
- List of ALL community Protest bail funds
- Trans Emergency Release Fund – https://emergencyreleasefund.com/contribute/
- North Star Health Collective – https://www.northstarhealthcollective.org/donate
Memorial funds
- George Floyd Memorial Fund – https://www.gofundme.com/f/georgefloyd
- There are memorial funds for almost all the victims of police brutality, could not find a compiled list but you can use the names from the list of petitions and just search to find their respective memorial funds.
Charitable Organizations
Petitions to sign
- Run with Maud
- Justice for Breonna Taylor
- Justice for Floyd
- List of all petitions with links (should be 2 full pages with names of people killed by police with no convictions of the respective officer(s))
Talk to your kids about racism
- Teaching your children about Black History Month via PBS
- NY Times: Books to teach children about racism and protests
- Resources to teach kids to be Antiracist
- CNN/Sesame Street Racism Town Hall
Teach your children to be an ally
- Teaching Tolerance offers discussion starters and lessons for teachers that parents can turn into ways to talk to their children about allyship.
National Hotlines
Organizations
- Therapy for Black Girls
- The Association of Black Psychologists
- National Association of Black Social Workers
- National Black Child Development Institute
- National Medical Association
Directories and Guides
- Black Virtual Therapist Network Directory
- Black Girls Smile Mental Health Resource Guide
- HelpGuide
- Warmlines directory
- Therapy for Black Girls podcast
- Requested: Black and Minority-owned business directory