WHITE-ALLIES
Anti-Racism Resources for White People - click here
75 Things White People Can Do For Racial Justice - click here
Amy Cooper and the White Embrace of Racism - click here
Mapping Our Social Change Roles in Times of Crisis - click here
POLICE BRUTALITY & ABUSE OF POWER
Freedom To Thrive: Reimagining Safety & Security in our Communities - click here
Know Your Rights: Protestor’s Rights - click here
Returning to Ferguson, 5 Years Later - click here
To Reform The Police, Target Their Union Contract - click here
Law for Black Lives - click here.
Films
Note: Some of the resources shared including recommended films to watch.
Watch Ethnic Notions here.
California Newsreels offers excellent historical documentaries about the African American experience here and they have other films & videos related to social change here.
RECOMMENDED READINGS
Zora - click here
Zora’s Canon - 100 Best Books by African American Women - click here
Blavity - click here.
Because of Them We Can - click here.
Mapping Our Social Change Roles in Times of Crisis - click here.
PLACES TO PHYSICALLY VISIT
Please also consider making a donation to these institutions:
Whitney Plantation in Louisiana - click here
National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, DC - click here
National Center for Civil and Human Right in Atlanta - click here
South Side Community Art Center in Chicago - click here.
National A. Phillip Randolph Pullman Porter Museum in Chicago - click here.
DuSable Museum of African American History in Chicago - click here.
National Museum of African American Music - opening soon in Nashville - click here.
List of Museums focused on African Americans in the United States - click here.
FOR PARENTS
Via Adrienne Samuels-Gibbs -
“Antiracism children's challenge.
Alright yall. You got a kid my kid's s age? You need to read a book a week? Start with the books that are Coretta Scott King award winning children's books (and the nominees.) All written and illustrated by black or brown people, these books are regular ole kids stories that just so happen to feature people who aren't white.
Look at your library. Start now to introduce children to brown people in books! Don't make a big deal of it. Just read a book about a black kid instead of a white one.
Then read another. And another. And another. And another. Teachers have enormous power here.
Black people read white books all the time. We like them! Harry potter is my jam! But now it's time to read children of blood and bone. (Er that's for adults tho and it SLAPS but you get my point)
ok kids books.
1. "March" by THEEE John Lewis. It is a graphic novel about the 1959 civil rights march. Read it and talk about so kids understand the new BLM movement.
2. Hidden Figures by Margot lee (then watch the movie after reading the book... make it a 360 learning experience)
3. The stuff of stars by marion dunes bauer
4. The dark thirty-- southern tales of the supernatural
5. The People Could Fly -- black folktales
You get the picture. Read it yourself and find the age appropriate ones for your kid. My 7 year old flips through March bc it is interesting and ON THE TABLE. We have lots of books that aren't about Harriett Tubman.... dig deeper.
Give your kid access to books about all kinda people so they read Chinese fairy tales and Egyptian myths and Mexican folklore and can thumb through big old heavy art books featuring different cultures. Leave these books around the house. Let them see YOU read about brown people.
Reading a book is radical.
I hope you participate.” Other Books Shared via comments:
Kids Like Us: Click here
9 Children’s Books About Police Brutality: Click here
Below are screenshots of other recommended Children’s Books:
Books All Children Should Read via the Children’s Defense Fund - Click here.
Crayola’s New Skin Tone Color Box - Click here.
For Work + ORGANIZATIONS FOCUSED ON RACIAL JUSTICE
Consider hosting an implicit bias workshop or series of workshops to combat racism in the workplace:
Be More America
Our programs are data-driven, shame-free, and solutions-oriented. We help senior leaders to assess organizational performance while identifying the impact of bias in service delivery, product development, and workplace interactions.
Click here for the website.
Click here for the resource page.
Creative Reaction Lab
Overcomes racial and health inequities impacting Black and Latinx populations by creating a youth-lead, community centered movement and professional pipeline challenging structural racism.
Click here for the website.
Color of Change
Designs campaigns powerful enough to end practices that unfairly hold Black people back, and champion solutions that move us all forward.
Click here for the website.
Essie Justice Group
Essie Justice Group is a nonprofit organization of women with incarcerated loved ones taking on the rampant injustices created by mass incarceration.
Click here for the website.
Race Forward
Race Forward catalyzes movement building for racial justice. In partnership with communities, organizations, and sectors, we build strategies to advance racial justice in our policies, institutions, and culture.
Click here for the website.
Policy Link
PolicyLink seeks to deliver and scale results in the following arenas:
Equitable Economy: Promote economic inclusion and ownership to eliminate poverty, shrink inequality, and increase mobility.
Healthy Communities of Opportunity: Create and maintain opportunity-rich communities in all neighborhoods and all regions of the country through strong networks and social capital, equitable development, and infrastructure investments that enable low-income people and communities of color to thrive.
Just Society: Build power and expand agency to ensure that all systems and institutions are just, free of racial bias, and lead to a vibrant democracy where all, especially the most vulnerable, can participate and prosper.
Click here for the website.
Echoing Green
We discover emerging social entrepreneurs and invest deeply in the growth of their ideas and leadership. Over 30 years, we've built a broad, dynamic ecosystem to support these leaders as they solve the world’s biggest problems.
Echoing Green fellows working on racial justice, click here.
Profound Gentleman
Our mission is to build a community of male educators of color who provide a profound additional impact on boys of color.
Our vision is to retain educators who dismantle the cradle to prison pipeline by establishing a cradle to career pipeline for boys of color.
Click here for the website.
Alliance for Boys and Men of Color - click here.
Girl Trek - click here.
TO READ:
The Memo by Minda Harts - click here
US Businesses Must Take Meaningful Action Against Racism - click here.
Corporate America has Failed Black America - click here.
TO WATCH:
Mellody Hobson’s TED Talk “Color Blind or Color Brave” - click here
OTHER RECOMMENDATIONS:
Use black consultants and vendors.
NON-PROFITS
Grants for Black Lives - click here.
Nonprofits Led By People of Color Win Less Grant Money with more strings - click here.
Read: Decolonizing Wealth by Edgar Villanueva - click here.
POLITICS & VOTING
Hennepin County - Prepare To Vote - click here.
Center for American Women and Politics - click here.
If you have suggestions for resources you’d like for us to add to this page, please email them to donnie@workwithdonnie.com. Please note that all resources will be vetted before sharing. This page will be updated at least once per month.