Black Lives Matter Resources & Petitions

Hi Dolls,

If you are reading this post, by now you've probably read my previous posts on racism, police brutality, allyship and the Black Lives Matter movement. If you haven't, please go ahead and scroll down to the tags at the bottom of this post to view my previous posts. These topics require our attention as well as a deeper understanding of systemic racism and implicit bias. If you have any questions, simply go to my guestbook directly, and I'll be happy to help. If you're looking to educate yourself, make sure to scroll down and read this entire post! I am unable to add links here, so please do go ahead and search for the titles that I've provided in this blog post.

Petitions (use a search engine to find them):

#DefundThePolice

I run with Maud

Reclaim the Block

Georgia Hate Crime Bill

Hands Up Act

Raise the Degree

#JusticeforBre

National Action Against Police Brutality

Campaign Zero's Solutions

Find Your Rep

Educational Resources Covering Racism:

dismantlingracism.org

TheNewYorker.com/tag/racism

adl.org/racism

raceforward.org/videos/systematic-racism

fairhousingjustice.org/resources/film/

mappingpoliceviolence.org

socialjusticeresourcecenter.org/resources/end-mass-incarceration-our-turn-to-dream/

artforum.com/slant/online-resources-in-the-struggle-against-anti-black-violence-policing-and-incarceration-83175

Search these YouTube Videos About Understanding Black Lives Matter:

Black Lives Matter: How a Hashtag Defined a Movement

#BlackLivesMatter | Kennedy Cook | TEDxYouth@Dayton

Black Lives Matter: How 3 Words Became a Movement | Mashable

Why a Police Chief Joined Forces with Black Lives Matter at George Floyd Protest

Black Lives Matter Co-Founder: Our Goal Is to Make All Lives Matter

A History of the Black Lives Matter Movement

President Obama Defends Meaning Of 'Black Lives Matter' At Town Hall

What's Wrong with Saying "All Lives Matter"? | Black Lives Matter

An American Sign Language interpreter's Message: Black Lives Matter

What The World Needs To Know About Black Lives Matter

The Stanford Prison Experiment

What Discrimination Looks Like In America

The Origin of Race in the USA

A Message to All Law Enforcement | GoodpixelProductions

African Americans dying of COVID-19 at Disproportionate Rate

How to financially help BLM with NO MONEY/leaving your house
(Invest in the future for FREE)

Articles for Allies (search for these titles):

"Recognizing and Dismantling Your Anti-Blackness"

"George Floyd's Death is a Failure of Generations of Leadership"

"Don't Fall for the Chaos Theory of the Protests"

"Talking to Kids About Racism, Early, and Often"

"How Organizations are Failing Black Workers and how to do Better"

"The Price we have Paid for Not Confronting Racism"

"Black Journalists are Exhausted"

"USC Professor on How Protests have Changed Since LA Riots in 1992"

"Why Feeling Uncomfortable is so Important"

"We Need More White Parents to Talk to Their Kids About Race. Especially Now"

"Getting Over Your Fear of Talking About Diversity"

"How to Actually Fix America's Police"

"Racial Inequality, in College and in the Workplace"

"Five Charts that Will Change the Way you Think About Racial Inequality"

"Allyship - The Key To Unlocking The Power Of Diversity" | Forbes

"Becoming Trustworthy White Allies" | Reflections (Yale)

"Why Wisconsin Jails so Many Black People" | BBC NEWS

"What Hollywood Movies do to Perpetuate Racial Stereotypes"

"Examples of Social Justice Issues Facing the World"

Films / Movies / TV shows / Documentaries:

13th (film)

Race

Freedom Riders

Whose Streets

Strong Island

LA 92

The Hate U Give

In Black America

Just Mercy

The Skin We're In

Dear White People

Black-ish

If Beale Street Could Talk

Selma

The House I Live In

Milwaukee 53206

Rikers

Think of Calvin

Elementary Genocide

America After Ferguson (PBS)

The Last Jimmy

Books to Read:

TIP: Consider not shopping on Amazon or your country's local online behemoth retailer! If possible, try supporting black-owned book stores instead.
(You can find a list of ones in the U.S. here: aalbc.com/bookstores/list.php)

So You Want To Talk About Race by Ijeoma Olou

Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?: And Other Conversations About Race by Beverly Daniel Tatum

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

They Can't Kill Us All: Ferguson, Baltimore, and a New Era in America's Racial Justice Movement by Welsey Lowery

White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide by Carol Anderson

How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi

Black Stats: African Americans by the Numbers in the Twenty-First Century by Monique W. Morris

Choke Hold: Policing Black Me by Paul Butler

Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower by Brittney Cooper

Black Feminist Thought by Patricia Hill Collins

White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk about Racism by Robin Diangolo, PHD

Beloved by Toni Morrrison

Podcasts:

#TellBlackStories

Code Switch

About Race

Seeing White

Momentum: A Race Forward Podcast

The Diversity Gap

Intersectionality Matters! Hosted by Kimberle Crenshaw

The Stoop

Still Processing

Lynching In America

Desert Island Discs with Bryan Stevenson

All My Relations

‘Witness Black History' by BBC World

Slay In Your Lane: The Podcast

About Race with Reni Eddo-Lodge

Organizations you can choose to donate to (use search engine to find):

Black Lives Matter

The Bail Project

Black Visions Collective

NAACP Legal Defense Fund

Communities United Against Police Brutality

Campaign Zero

Color of Change

Reclaim the Block

Know your rights Camp Legal defense initiative

American Civil Liberties FundGeorge Floyd Memorial Fund

BEAM: Black Emotional and Mental Health Collective

National Associate of Black Journalists

Jamee Johnson Memorial Fund

Follow these accounts on social media:

@colorofchange

@blklivesmatter

@theconsciouskid

@ncaap

@showupingupforracialjustice

@sistersong_woc

@fams2gether

@unitedwedream

@mpowerchange

@civilrightsorg

In my opinion: The Civil Rights movement in the United States never ended. One day, historians will write about our times, and recognize this as fact. The Civil Rights Act of 1968 may have ended the decades-long civil unrest shortly after the death of Dr. King, however, that does not mean racism ended. The same lynching, excesive use of force, harassment and displays of police brutality have existed for as long as the United States has been a nation. It took the age of cameras, computers, and phones to bring the truth to light for more than just the people experiencing it. Globalization catapulted this movement. BLM's own co-founder expressed how BLM is fighting for all lives to matter by adressing POC deaths at the hands of cops. Instead of being divided, let's work together. Join us, and fight corruption. Start by educating yourself.

"INJUSTICE ANYWHERE IS A THREAT TO JUSTICE EVERYWHERE."- Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King Jr.