Equal Justice Resources

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Podcasts:

• Dear White Women: www.dearwhitewomen.com/

 

• New York Times 1619 Podcast:https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/23/podcasts/1619-podcast.html

 

• Momentum Forward: https://www.raceforward.org/media/podcast/momentum-race-forward-podcast

 

• NPR’s CodeSwitch: www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/

 

• Change Catalyst: https://changecatalyst.co/allyshipseries/

 

• My Podcast Episode with Jamie Foxx, Michael B. Jordan, and Bryan Stevenson

 

• Jemele Hill is Unbothered

 

• Here to Slay with Roxane Gay and Tressie McMillan Cottom

 
TedTalks: 

• Mellody Hobson’s Color Blind or Color Brave: https://www.ted.com/talks/mellody_hobson_color_blind_or_color_brave?language=en

 

• Luvvie Ajayi’s Get Comfortable with Being Uncomfortable: https://changecatalyst.co/allyshipseries/

 

• Peggy McIntosh’s How Studying Privilege Systems Can Strengthen Compassion: https://youtu.be/e-BY9UEewHw

 
Articles: 
Inside the Mind of White America:
https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-us-canada-36551938/inside-the-mind-of-white-america
 
What to do Instead of Calling the Police:
https://www.sproutdistro.com/2017/07/28/new-zine-12-things-cops

Surviving and Resisting Hate: A Toolkit for People of Color:
https://icrace.files.wordpress.com/2017/09/icrace-toolkit-for-poc.pdf
 
Self-care Tips for Black People Who Are Feeling Overwhelmed by Racism: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/g5pgmq/self-care-tips-for-black-people-struggling-from-painful-week
 
White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack:
https://www.racialequitytools.org/resourcefiles/mcintosh.pdf
 
A Guide to How You Can Support Marginalized Communities:
https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/30/us/how-to-be-an-ally-guide-trnd/index.html

75 Things White People Can Do for Racial Justice:
https://medium.com/equality-includes-you/what-white-people-can-do-for-racial-justice-f2d18b0e0234
 
11 Terms You Should Know to Better Understand Structural Racism: https://www.aspeninstitute.org/blog-posts/structural-racism-definition/
 
The Empathy Crisis of White America: https://fruity.substack.com/p/the-empathy-crisis-of-white-america
 
Prolific Racism Needs Complicit White People: https://medium.com/equality-includes-you/prolific-racism-needs-complicit-white-people-2bd89f3a5d13
 
Your Black Colleagues May Look Like They’re Okay—Chances Are They’re Not https://money.yahoo.com/black-colleagues-may-look-okay-223229342.html
 
Maintaining Professionalism in The Age of Black Death is….A Lot https://medium.com/@shenequagolding/maintaining-professionalism-in-the-age-of-black-death-is-a-lot-5eaec5e17585
 
U.S. Businesses Must Take Meaningful Action Against Racism
https://hbr.org/2020/06/u-s-businesses-must-take-meaningful-action-against-racism
 
Fighting Racism Even, and Especially, Where We Don’t Realize it Exists: How to Be an Antiracist https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/20/books/review/how-to-be-an-antiracist-ibram-x-kendi.html
 
NY Times Magazine: The 1619 Project https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/14/magazine/1619-america-slavery.html
 
Many Americans have no friends of another race: poll https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-poll-race/many-americans-have-no-friends-of-another-race-poll-idUSBRE97704320130808
 
Instead of More Conversations About Race, We Need More Cross-Racial Friendships https://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/2019/01/instead-of-more-conversations-about-race-we-need-more-cross-racial-friendships.html
 
You And Me Will Never Part: A Study of Black Women’s Best Friendships http://acumen.lib.ua.edu/content/u0015/0000001/0001144/u0015_0000001_0001144.pdf
 
She’s white. I’m black -- how our friendship survived real talk about race https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/06/opinions/dear-white-people-marissa-calhoun-opinion/index.html
 
How to Be a Better Friend to Black Women
https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/06/opinions/dear-white-people-marissa-calhoun-opinion/index.html
 
Women in Black & White Survey https://www.lesliemorgansteiner.com/women-in-black-white-survey/
 
‘Uncommon Bonds’ Explores What It Takes for Women to Have Real Friendships Across Race https://www.colorlines.com/articles/uncommon-bonds-explores-what-it-takes-women-have-real-friendships-across-race#:~:text='Uncommon%20Bonds'%20Explores%20What%20It%20Takes%20for%20Women%20to%20Have,of%20true%20cross%2Dracial%20friendships.
 
Can black women and white women be true friends? https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/03/29/can-black-women-white-women-be-true-friends/

The Year I Gave Up White Comfort: An Ode to my White “Friends” on Being Better to Black Women
https://medium.com/@rayrayleigh/the-year-i-gave-up-white-comfort-an-ode-to-my-white-friends-on-being-better-to-black-womxn-25d8aef05f89
 
3 Conditions for Friendship http://www.jaceyverdicchio.com/3-conditions-for-friendship
 
The massive new study on race and economic mobility in America, explained https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/3/21/17139300/economic-mobility-study-race-black-white-women-men-incarceration-income-chetty-hendren-jones-porter
 
The Death of George Floyd, In Context https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/the-death-of-george-floyd-in-context
 
Of Course There Are Protests. The State Is Failing Black People https://pwb.princeton.edu/2020/06/02/of-course-there-are-protests-the-state-is-failing-black-people/
 
This Is How Loved Ones Want Us to Remember George https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/27/us/george-floyd-trnd/index.html
 
The New York Times Magazine’s award-winning The 1619 Project
www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/14/magazine/1619-america-slavery.html
 
You shouldn’t need a Harvard degree to survive birdwatching while black https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/05/28/christian-cooper-harvard-birdwatching/
 
It’s exhausting. How many hashtags will it take for all of America to see Black people as more than their skin color? https://www.elle.com/culture/career-politics/a32702103/george-floyd-death/
 
The Case for Reparations https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/06/the-case-for-reparations/361631/
 
How to Make This Moment the Turning Point for Real

Books/Workbooks: 

• Nick Adams, “Making Friends with Black People”

 

• Michelle Alexander, “The New Jim Crow”

 

• Joseph Barndt, “Understanding and Dismantling Racism: The Twenty-First Century Challenge to White America”

 

• Devon W. Carbado and Mitu Gulati, “Acting White?: Rethinking Race in Post-Racial America

 

• Tanner Colby, “Some of My Best Friends are Black”

 

• Dr. Joy DeGruy, “Post-Traumatic Slave Syndrome: America’s Legacy of Enduring Injury and Healing”

 

• Dr. Robin DiAngelo, “White Fragility: Why it’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism” and “What Does it Mean to Be White?: Developing White Racial Literacy”

 

• Jacqueline Goldsby, “A Spectacular Secret: Lynching in American Life and Literature”

 

• bell hooks, “Killing Rage: Ending Racism”

 

• Debby Irving, “Waking Up White and Finding Myself in the Story of Race”

 

• Frances Kendall, “Understanding White Privilege: Creating Pathways to Authentic Relationships Across Race”

 

• Ibram X. Kendi, “Stamped From the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America” and “How to Be an Antiracist”

 

• Catrice Jackson, 30 Day Crash Course for White Women

 

• Janet Mock, “Redefining Realness”

 

• Trevor Noah, “Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood”

 

• Ijeoma Oluo, “So You Want to Talk About Race”


• Beverly Daniel Tatum, "Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?’ and Other Conversations About Race"

 

• Vijay Prashad, "The Karma of Brown Folk" available at https://www.amazon.com/Karma-Brown-Folk-Vijay-Prashad/dp/0816634394

 

• Vijay Prashad, "Everything was Kung Fu Fighting" available at https://www.amazon.com/Everybody-Was-Kung-Fighting-Connections/dp/080705011


• Deborah L. Plummer, PHD, “Some of My Friends Are…: The Daunting Challenges and Untapped Benefits of Cross-Racial Friendships”

 

• Layla Saad, “Me and White Supremacy”

 

• Bryan Stevenson, “Just Mercy”

 

• Beverly Daniel Tatum, “Why are all the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria: And Other Conversations About Race”

 

• Jim Wallis, “America’s Original Sin: Racism, White Privilege and the Bridge to a New America”

 

• Vron Ware and Mikki Kendall, “Beyond the Pale: White, Women, Racism and History”

 

• Isabel Wilkerson, “The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration”

 

• Tim Wise, “White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son”

 
Documentaries, Films and TV Shows: 

• Becoming, The Netflix Documentary (Nadia Hallgren)
• The Hate You Give (George Tillman Jr.)
• The 1965 Debate between James Baldwin and William Buckley
• 12 Years a Slave (Steve McQueen)
• 13th (Ava DuVernay)
• Selma (Ava DuVernay)
• Just Mercy (Destin Daniel Cretton)
• The Central Park Five (Ken Burns)
• When They See Us (Ava DuVernay)
• Hidden Figures (Theodore Melfi)

 
Additional Resources: 

• National Museum of African American History and Culture Releases “Talking About Race” Web Portal: https://protect-us.mimecast.com/s/kxKHCL9D2DtXXryKHBUU- u?domain=nmaahc.si.edu

 

• Antiracism Project: https://www.antiracismproject.org/resources

 

• H.R. 40 – Commission to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African-Americans Act. https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/40

 

• Corporate Statement Regarding Police Brutality: https://www.benjerry.com/about- us/media-center/dismantle-white-supremacy

 

• Resources for White People to Learn and Talk About Racism: https://blog.fracturedatlas.org/resources-for-white-people-to-learn-and-talk-about-race-and-racism-5b207fff4fc7

 

• Showing Up for Racial Justice: How to Show Up: https://www.showingupforracialjustice.org/

 

• Showing Up for Racial Justice: Educational Toolkits: https://www.showingupforracialjustice.org/

 
 
Charities and Fundraisers: 

• Black Lives Matter: An organization with the mission sta

 

• Black Organizing for Leadership and Dignity: BOLD is a national leadership training program designed to help rebuild Black (African-American, Caribbean, African, Afro- Latino) social justice infrastructure in order to organize Black communities more effectively and re-center Black leadership in the US social justice movement

 

• Equal Justice Initiative: Support EJI’s efforts to combat racial injustice in the US. Your contribution is critical to our efforts to end mass incarceration and excessive punishment in the US, challenge racial and economic injustice and protect the basic human rights for the most vulnerable people in American society

 

• Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights under Law: The Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights under Law works to protect access to democracy every day. Their election protection coalition is the nation’s largest, nonpartisan voter protection program

 

• NAACP Legal Defense Fund: Through litigation, advocacy and public education, LDF seeks structural changes to expand democracy, eliminate disparities and achieve racial justice in a society that fulfills the promise of equality for all Americans. Donations to this legal organization go toward helping win landmark legal battles, protect voters across the nation and advance the cause of racial justice, equality and an inclusive society

 

• National Bail Out Fund: A Black-led and Black-centered collective of abolitionist organizers, lawyers and activists building a community-based movement to support our folks and end systems of pretrial detention and ultimately mass incarceration

 

• Southerners on New Ground: Southerners on New Ground is a regional queer liberation organization made up of people of color, immigrants, undocumented people, people with disabilities, working class and rural and small town and LGBTQ+ people in the South

 

• The Leadership Conference on Civil & Human Rights: The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights is the nation’s oldest, largest and most diverse civil and human rights coalition

 

• The Loveland Foundation: The campaign is raising money to offer free therapy sessions for black women and girls