Resource roundup in response to riots
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Collecting resources in response to the riots happening. Credit to the people who made them.
Black Lives Matter - Ways You Can Help, comprehensive and updated frequently. Also good for protestor safety and tips.
Anti-Racism for white people google doc circulating social media (made in March 2020 as a response to Breonna Taylor's death)
Need a general overview about racism, to catch up or to send to someone? The Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture: Being Antiracist and Talking About Race.
Compiled info:
Ani-Racism Resource Guide (huge list of books etc, including sections on Black, Latinx, Indigenous, Asian American, so on history books)
Civic science Fellows resource list (ginormous)
BLM: more place to petition, call, email, donate (google doc)
Practical info for protestors / those who want to help protestors (tumblr)
Sprout Distro, zines by anarchists
Riot Medicine
List of free books by Black authors and revolutionaries (doc with links)
Therapy resources for Black people (also for general PoC) (tumblr)
Lawyers assisting arrested protestors, pro bono (twitter)
75 things white people can do for racial justice
June 10th 2020: ##ShutDownAcademia, #ShutDownSTEM, and #Strike4BlackLives.
#shutdownstem Healing for Black people (resources)
Specific info:
The Bail Project
Can't donate or protest?
Help the Wayback Machine document state crimes against protestors (tumblr explanation) (link to Wayback) (also, if you can donate, consider donating to archive.org, they are being threatened)
Watch this youtube video, the ads will donate to Black Lives Matter causes.
A big list of passive donation videos (tumblr) (some videos may have been taken down)
Appalachia bail fund (tumblr)
White Supremacy looters are targeting black businesses + BLM donation link (tumblr)
Tweet about how MN neighbors are protecting each other from white supremacists and police (Tumblr post with further photos from another MN person)
NYT photos of protests, start thru June 9 2020
Vox.com article on white allyship at protests and other times
Comic about medical first aid kits for protestors
Black Writers Guild formed
There is No Such Thing as a White Ally (medium.com)
We are in the Cool Zone? of History.
I am so tired of trying to read news articles and hitting a paywall, here is one GitHub for that.
Partial list of books/related articles. These are mentioned in the links above. Check Overdrive, Hoopla or other library/free book resources for e-books. If buying a book, consider bookshop.org (instead of a trillionare's e-commerce site).
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/series/antiracism-and-america
Layla F. Saad:
Ibram X. Kendi:
How to be an Anti-Racist
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OXMgA0Fwsk&feature=youtu.be
https://bookshop.org/books/how-to-be-an-antiracist/9780525509288
Stamped From the Beginning: https://www.ibramxkendi.com/ stamped-from-the-beginning
Ijeoma Olua:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/mar/28/confronting-racism-is-not-about-the-needs-and-feelings-of-white-people
https://bookshop.org/books/so-you-want-to-talk-about-race/9781580058827
Renni Eddo-Lodge: Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race
(2014 original article) http://renieddolodge.co.uk/books/
Black Lives Matter - Ways You Can Help, comprehensive and updated frequently. Also good for protestor safety and tips.
Anti-Racism for white people google doc circulating social media (made in March 2020 as a response to Breonna Taylor's death)
Need a general overview about racism, to catch up or to send to someone? The Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture: Being Antiracist and Talking About Race.
Compiled info:
Ani-Racism Resource Guide (huge list of books etc, including sections on Black, Latinx, Indigenous, Asian American, so on history books)
Civic science Fellows resource list (ginormous)
BLM: more place to petition, call, email, donate (google doc)
Practical info for protestors / those who want to help protestors (tumblr)
Sprout Distro, zines by anarchists
Riot Medicine
List of free books by Black authors and revolutionaries (doc with links)
Therapy resources for Black people (also for general PoC) (tumblr)
Lawyers assisting arrested protestors, pro bono (twitter)
75 things white people can do for racial justice
June 10th 2020: ##ShutDownAcademia, #ShutDownSTEM, and #Strike4BlackLives.
#shutdownstem Healing for Black people (resources)
Specific info:
The Bail Project
Can't donate or protest?
Help the Wayback Machine document state crimes against protestors (tumblr explanation) (link to Wayback) (also, if you can donate, consider donating to archive.org, they are being threatened)
Watch this youtube video, the ads will donate to Black Lives Matter causes.
A big list of passive donation videos (tumblr) (some videos may have been taken down)
Appalachia bail fund (tumblr)
White Supremacy looters are targeting black businesses + BLM donation link (tumblr)
Tweet about how MN neighbors are protecting each other from white supremacists and police (Tumblr post with further photos from another MN person)
NYT photos of protests, start thru June 9 2020
Vox.com article on white allyship at protests and other times
Comic about medical first aid kits for protestors
Black Writers Guild formed
4 ways white ppl can process their emotions without hijacking the conversation on racial justice
There is No Such Thing as a White Ally (medium.com)
We are in the Cool Zone? of History.
I am so tired of trying to read news articles and hitting a paywall, here is one GitHub for that.
Partial list of books/related articles. These are mentioned in the links above. Check Overdrive, Hoopla or other library/free book resources for e-books. If buying a book, consider bookshop.org (instead of a trillionare's e-commerce site).
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/series/antiracism-and-america
Layla F. Saad:
Ibram X. Kendi:
How to be an Anti-Racist
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OXMgA0Fwsk&feature=youtu.be
https://bookshop.org/books/how-to-be-an-antiracist/9780525509288
Stamped From the Beginning: https://www.ibramxkendi.com/
Ijeoma Olua:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/mar/28/confronting-racism-is-not-about-the-needs-and-feelings-of-white-people
https://bookshop.org/books/so-you-want-to-talk-about-race/9781580058827
Renni Eddo-Lodge: Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race
(2014 original article) http://renieddolodge.co.uk/books/