This document is intended to serve as a resource to white people and parents to deepen our anti-racism work. If you haven’t engaged in anti-racism work in the past, start now. Feel free to circulate this document on social media and with your friends, family, and colleagues.
Data on Racism in Policing
Resources for white parents to raise anti-racist children:
- Books:
- Podcasts:
- Articles:
- The Conscious Kid: follow them on Instagram and consider signing up for their Patreon
Articles to read:
- Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement (Mentoring a New Generation of Activists
- ”My Life as an Undocumented Immigrant” by Jose Antonio Vargas | NYT Mag (June 22, 2011)
- The 1619 Project (all the articles) | The New York Times Magazine
- The Combahee River Collective Statement
- “The Intersectionality Wars” by Jane Coaston | Vox (May 28, 2019)
- Tips for Creating Effective White Caucus Groups developed by Craig Elliott PhD
- “Where do I donate? Why is the uprising violent? Should I go protest?” by Courtney Martin (June 1, 2020)
- ”White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack” by Knapsack Peggy McIntosh
- “Who Gets to Be Afraid in America?” by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi | Atlantic (May 12, 2020)
- “Racism isn’t just Black people’s problem; it’s everyone’s problem because it erodes the fabric of society. Leaders at every level must use their power, platforms, and resources to help employees and communities overcome these challenges and build a better world for us all.” – HBR https://hbr.org/2020/06/u-s-businesses-must-take-meaningful-action-against-racism?ab=hero-main-text
- This article talks about the ways businesses are taking a stand and in the article is a beautiful video by Nike. “For once, don’t do it. Don’t pretend there’s not a problem in America. Don’t turn your back on racism. Don’t accept innocent lives being taken from us. Don’t make any more excuses. Don’t think this doesn’t affect you. Don’t sit back and be silent. Don’t think you can’t be part of the change. Be part of the change. Let’s be part of the change. #UntilWeAllWin” – Nike https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidhessekiel/2020/06/04/companies-taking-a-public-stand-in-the-wake-of-george-floyds-death/#13a8271b7214
Videos to watch:
- Dr. Robin DiAngelo discusses ‘White Fragility’ (1:23:30)
- “How Studying Privilege Systems Can Strengthen Compassion” | Peggy McIntosh at TEDxTimberlaneSchools (18:26)
Podcasts to subscribe to:
- Code Switch (NPR)
- Intersectionality Matters! hosted by Kimberlé Crenshaw
- Momentum: A Race Forward Podcast
- Pod For The Cause (from The Leadership Conference on Civil & Human Rights)
- Pod Save the People (Crooked Media)
- Seeing White
Books to read:
- Black Feminist Thought by Patricia Hill Collins
- Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower by Dr. Brittney Cooper
- Heavy: An American Memoir by Kiese Laymon
- How To Be An Antiracist by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi
- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
- Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color by Andrea J. Ritchie
- Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
- Me and White Supremacy by Layla F. Saad
- Raising Our Hands by Jenna Arnold
- Redefining Realness by Janet Mock
- Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde
- So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
- The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
- The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
- The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
by Michelle Alexander - The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century
by Grace Lee Boggs - The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
- Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
- This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color by Cherríe Moraga
- When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America by Ira Katznelson
- White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo, PhD
Films and TV series to watch:
- 13th (Ava DuVernay) — Netflix
- American Son (Kenny Leon) — Netflix
- Black Power Mixtape: 1967-1975 — Available to rent
- Blindspotting (Carlos López Estrada) — Hulu with Cinemax or available to rent
- Clemency (Chinonye Chukwu) — Available to rent
- Dear White People (Justin Simien) — Netflix
- 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
- Just Mercy (Destin Daniel Cretton) — Available to rent for free in June in the U.S.
- King In The Wilderness — HBO
- See You Yesterday (Stefon Bristol) — Netflix
- Selma (Ava DuVernay) — Available to rent for free in June in the U.S.
- The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution — Available to rent
- The Hate U Give (George Tillman Jr.) — Available to rent for free
- When They See Us (Ava DuVernay) — Netflix
Organizations to follow on social media:
- 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
- Justice League NYC: Twitter | Instagram + Gathering For Justice: Twitter | Instagram
- The Leadership Conference on Civil & Human Rights: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
- The Movement For Black Lives (M4BL): 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
More anti-racism resources to check out:
- Public Health Resources for Understanding Environmental Racism
- 75 Things White People Can Do for Racial Justice
- Anti-Racism Project
- Jenna Arnold’s resources (books and people to follow)
- Rachel Ricketts’ anti-racism resources
- Resources for White People to Learn and Talk About Race and Racism
- Save the Tears: White Woman’s Guide by Tatiana Mac
- Showing Up For Racial Justice’s educational toolkits
- The [White] Shift on Instagram
- “Why is this happening?” — an introduction to police brutality from 100 Year Hoodie
- Zinn Education Project’s teaching materials
Document compiled by Sarah Sophie Flicker, Alyssa Klein in May 2020.
Donate to an Organization
NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund
The NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund is a national legal organization fighting for racial justice. 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. LDF also defends the gains and protections won over the past 75 years of civil rights struggle and works to improve the quality and diversity of judicial and executive appointments.
Learn more: https://www.naacpldf.org/about-us/
BLM Seattle Freedom Fund
Black Lives Matter Seattle-King County is a grassroots, volunteer-run, social-justice nonprofit organization focused on the empowerment and liberation of Blacks and other people of color through advocacy and direct action. BLM Seattle centers leadership on Black femmes, women, and queer people organizing and taking direct action to dismantle anti-black systems and policies of oppression.
Funds collected through the Black Lives Matter Seattle-King County Freedom Fund will go to the immediate release of people protesting the murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Manuel Ellis (May 2020). Any remaining funds will continue to be used for future bailout efforts as an ongoing community bail fund project.
Learn More: https://blacklivesseattle.org/about/
Donate now: https://blacklivesseattle.org/bail-fund/
NW Community Bail Fund
The Northwest Community Bail Fund (NCBF) provides cash bail for marginalized people charged with crimes who are unable to afford bail and find themselves incarcerated while awaiting routine court appearances in King and Snohomish Counties in Washington State.
This allows people to get out of jail during their trial period and defend themselves from a position of freedom.
Learn more: https://www.nwcombailfund.org/
Donate now: https://donorbox.org/ncbf
Not this Time!
Not This Time!, founded in response to the shooting of Che’ Andre Taylor by the Seattle Police Department on February 21, 2016, is a community organization focused on reducing fatal police shootings, changing the laws that govern the use of force, and rebuilding trust between our communities and the police who are sworn to protect and serve us.
Not This Time! works with a large and diverse coalition of Native Tribes, Black Churches, Asian Pacific Islander groups, Latino Organizations, and people with disabilities to reform policing in Washington State. It has garnered the support of U.S. Senator Patty Murray, U.S. Congressman Adam Smith, and many others working to create more just laws in Seattle, King County, and Washington State. Organizational allies include the Seattle Community Police Commission, the Black Law Enforcement Association of Washington, the King County Office of Law Enforcement Oversight, and the Washington Joint Task Force on the Deadly Use of Force in Community Policing.
Learn more: https://www.notthistime.global/our-work/our-story/
Donate now: https://www.notthistime.global/donate-today/
Black Lives Matter Foundation
Black Lives Matter Foundation, Inc is a global organization in the US, UK, and Canada, whose mission is to eradicate white supremacy and build local power to intervene in violence inflicted on Black communities by the state and vigilantes.
Learn more: https://blacklivesmatter.com/what-we-believe/
Donate now: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/ms_blm_homepage_2019
The Movement for Black Lives
The Movement for Black Lives (M4BL) formed in December of 2014, was created as a space for Black organizations across the country to debate and discuss the current political conditions, develop shared assessments of what political interventions were necessary in order to achieve key policy, cultural and political wins, convene organizational leadership in order to debate and co-create a shared movement wide strategy.
Learn More: https://m4bl.org/about-us/
Donate now: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/movement-4-black-lives-1
Color of Change
The Color of Change in an online racial justice organization focused on moving decision-makers in corporations and government to create a more human and less hostile world for Black people in America.
Donate now: https://secure.actblue.com/contribute/page/support-us
National Council for Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated Girls
https://www.nationalcouncil.us/
Donate to a Family
George Floyd
This fund is established to cover funeral and burial expenses, mental and grief counseling, lodging and travel for all court proceedings, and to assist the Floyd family in the days to come as we continue to seek justice for George. A portion of these funds will also go to the Estate of George Floyd for the benefit and care of his children and their educational fund.
Gofundme: https://www.gofundme.com/f/georgefloyd
Ahmaud Arbery
This fund was designed to assist Ahmaud’s mother; Ms. Wanda Cooper-Jones and her immediate family with financial support during this extreme difficult time and in their struggle for justice for the murder of Ahmaud Marquez Arbery.
Gofundme: https://www.gofundme.com/f/i-run-with-maud
Breonna Taylor
This fund was set up to support Breonna’s family in their fight for #justiceforbre.
Gofundme: https://www.gofundme.com/f/9v4q2-justice-for-breonna-taylor
To take immediate action to fight for Breonna Taylor, please visit FightForBreonna.org.
Manuel Ellis
This fund was set up by the family of Manuel Ellis to help fund legal fees and other needs as they navigate this difficult time.
Gofundme: https://www.gofundme.com/f/in-honor-of-manuel-ellis
James Scurlock
This fund was set up by a member of the Omaha community to support the family of James Scurlock. All funds will go to James Scurlock Sr.
Gofundme: https://www.gofundme.com/f/for-james-scurlocks-family
David McAtee
Gofundme: https://www.gofundme.com/f/justicefordavidmcatee
Black-owned Restaurants in Seattle:
https://everout.thestranger.com/locations/?feature=black-owned
Books to Read:
How to be an Antiracist — Dr. Ibram X Kendi
Just Mercy — Bryan Stevenson
So You Want to Talk About Race– Ijeoma Oluo
Black Feminist Thought– Patricia Hill Collins
The Fire Next Time– James Baldwin
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness– Michelle Alexander
Me and White Supremacy– Layla F. Saad
White Fragility — Robin DiAngelo, PHD
White Rage — Carol Anderson
Between the World and Me — Ta Nehisi Coates
The Water Dancer — Ta Nehisi Coates (fiction)
The Underground Railroad — Colson Whitehead (fiction)
Twelve Years A Slave — Solomon Northup (fiction)
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi (fiction)
Citizen by Claudia Rankin (poetry)
The Tradition by Jericho Brown (poetry)
Wade in the Water by Tracy K. Smith (poetry)
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas (fiction)
Anything by YA author Jason Reynolds
Articles to Read:
Who Gets to be Afraid in America — Ibram Kendi
The 1619 Project— NY Times
White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack — Peggy McIntosh
The Case for Reparations— Ta-Nehisi Coates
The Intersectionality Wars-– Jane Coaston
America’s Racial Contract is Killing Us— Adam Serwer
Things to Watch
13th (Ana DuVernay) — Netflix
I Am Not Your Negro — For Rent or Kanopy or maybe Amazon (?)
King in the Wilderness — HBO
The Hate U Give — Hulu
How We’re Priming Some Kids for College and others for Prison — TED Talk
AUDL Anti-Racism Discussion Panel – Pro Ultimate discussion aired live on June 4, 2020
Celebrating Blackness – Black Artists, Musicians, Writers and beyond
Keedron Bryant – “I just wanna live” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jPKYXZfWUU
35 Top Black Artists and their black inspirations – NYTimes interactive article: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/03/19/arts/african-american-art-inspiration.html?referringSource=articleShare
Artist Kehinde Wiley: https://kehindewiley.com
Banjo Player & Activist/Historian Rhiannon Giddens: https://www.rhiannongiddens.com
https://time.com/5847487/george-floyd-time-cover-titus-kaphar/
SAM current and future exhibits:
Jacob Lawrence: The American Struggle
Barbara Earl Thomas: The Geography of Innocence
Lessons From the Institute of Empathy
Black-led Arts organizations:
- Northwest African American Museum
- Wa Na Wari
- ONYX Fine Arts
- Martyr Sauce
- Central District Forum for Arts & Ideas
- Seattle People of Color Salon
- LANGSTON
- Spectrum Dance Theater
- Northwest Tap Connection
- African-American Writers’ Alliance
- Seattle Urban Book Expo
- Creative Justice
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fElXu_MdRrs&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR1aTR5dCNyAz-Vl2Arkr4seV_6JWGsJnmZDgD7oRnN5rjsEqbdPsH0_Jvk
https://www.lincolnschool.org/a-quaker-foundation/thecenter/anti-racial-resources