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Anti-Racism Resources

Mental Health & Self-Care Resources for Coping with Racial Trauma. 

Resource masterlist compiled by Mimo Muturi from the MICA community. Her instagram + donations page

4-7-8 breathing- www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/324417

5 Free Virtual Therapy Sessions for Black Americans- https://borislhensonfoundation.org/covid-19-free-virtual-therapy-support-campaign/

Racial Trauma Toolkit and Infographic, created by the Institute for the Study and Promotion of Race and Culture at Boston CollegeManuscript & Infographic.

Racial Trauma Infographic- https://www.bc.edu/content/dam/files/schools/lsoe_sites/isprc/pdf/Infograph.pdf

Inclusive Therapists Free and Reduced Fee Virtual Therapy Sessions- https://www.inclusivetherapists.com/reduced-fee-virtual-teletherapy

counting meditation- www.instagram.com/p/CAzqobjIIT1/ 

Emotionally Restorative Self Care: People of Color- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuLT_YQLGF8 

Tips for Self-Care: When Police Brutality Has You Questioning Humanity and SocialMedia Is Enough- https://www.theroot.com/tips-for-self-care-when-police-brutality-has-you-quest-1790855952

Black Lives Matter Meditation for Healing Racial Trauma (Guided Meditation Audio)- http://drcandicenicole.com/2016/07/black-lives-matter-meditation/

The Safe Place- Minority Mental Health app

The Loveland foundation funds therapy for black girls and women. https://thelovelandfoundation.org

Mental health resources for Blacks and African-Americans- Made by @kyliesharron https://docs.google.com/document/d/19xzP4SU3bB9j0vN1HgS-QSeRoTfBb72sa3oa_5apigQ/ed

 

BIPOC Trigger Warning: The rest of this document outlines resources that talk explicitly about police brutality, slavery, pain, and the many injustices of white oppression and capitalist society. 


 

Black Photographers covering the 2020 USA Protest

 

Software: IOS Blurring Software

 


MUCH NEEDED, OVERDUE ALLYSHIP 

ARTICLES

Handbook for facilitating difficult conversations in the classroom  

How Should I Talk about Race in a Mostly White Classroom?

How to be a better ally. 

“A Timeline of Events that led to the 2020 fed up rising” 

Reading towards Abolition: A Reading List on Policing, Rebellion, and the Criminalization of Blackness by the Abusable Past Collective | Radical History Review (June 1, 2020)

“Institutionalized Racism: A Syllabus” by Catherine Halley | JSTOR (May 31, 2020)

"America's Racial Contract Is Killing Us" by Adam Serwer I Atlantic (May 8, 2020)

"My Life as an Undocumented Immigrant" by Jose Antonio Vargas I NYT Mag (June 22, 

2011)

The 1619 Project I The New York Times Magazine

"The lntersectionality Wars" by Jane Coaston I Vox (May 28, 2019)

Tips for Creating Effective White Caucus Groups developed by Craig Elliott PhD

"White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack" by Peggy McIntosh

"Who Gets to Be Afraid in America?" by Dr. lbram X. Kendi I Atlantic (May 22, 2020)

A Timeline of Events That Led to the 2020 'Fed Up'-rising” by Michael Harriot | The Root ( May 30, 2020)

The Story Behind TIME's George Floyd Protest Cover.

The Racial Bias Built Into Photography, Sarah Lewis explores the relationship between racism and the camera.

Vision and Justice by Aperture - free download

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

 

PODCASTS

1619| New York Times

About Race with Renni Eddo Lodge

Code Switch I NPR

Intersectionality Matters! I Hosted by Kimberle Crenshaw https://aapf.org/podcast

Momentum: A Race Forward Podcast

Pod For The Cause I Front The Leadership Conference on Civil & Human Rights

Pod Save the People I Crooked Media

The Combahee River Collective Statement

Seeing White, Scene on Radio, Center for Documentary Studies, Duke University

Talking About Whiteness with Eula Biss

Notice the Rage; Notice the Silence with Resmaa Menakem

 

DATABASES

Antiracism Resources for White-led Organizations bit.ly/antiracismresources

BLM Anti Racist Resource for the Photography Industry https://www.bjp-online.com/2020/06/black-lives-matter-anti-racism-resources/

Anti Racist Company Playbook

Allyship Database

 

ORGANIZATIONS 

Ending Police Violence In America https://www.joincampaignzero.org/

Harm Reduction, Community Safety, Abolition https://8cantwait.org/

 

BOOKS

White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism I Robin DiAngelo, PhD

Me and White Supremacy I Layla F. Saad

Not in my Neighborhood: How Bigotry Shaped a Great American City | Antero Pietila

A People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn

How to Be an Anti-Racist by Ibram X. Kendi

'Brown' in Baltimore: School Segregation and the Limits of Liberalism | Howell S. Baum

Race. Class. Power, and Organizing in East Baltimore: Rebuilding Abandoned Communities in America | Marisela B. Comez

Sister Citizen: Shame. Stereotypes. and Black Women in America | Melissa Harris Perry

Black Feminist Thought I Patricia Hill Collins

Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower I Dr Brittney Cooper

Heavy: An American Memoir I Kiese Laymon

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings I Maya Angelou

Just Mercy I Bryan Stevenson

Redefining Realness I Janet Mock

Sister Outsider I Audre Lorde

So You Want to Talk About Race I Ijeoma Oluo

The Bluest Eye I Toni Morrison

The Fire Next Time I James Baldwin

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness I Michelle Alexander

The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century I Grace Lee Boggs

The Warmth of Other Suns I Isabel Wilkerson

Their Eyes Were Watching God I Zora Neale Hurston

This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color I Cherríe Moraga

Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision | Barbara Ransby

When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America I Ira Katznelson

Radical Dharma: Talking Race, Love, and Liberation by Reverend angel Kyudo Williams

Race Matters, 25th Anniversary Edition, with a New Introduction by Doctor Cornel West

The History of White People by Nell Irvin Painter

Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

Decolonising the Camera: Photography in Racial Time, Author(s): Mark Sealy

The Black Female Body : A Photographic History by Carla Williams and Deborah Willis

George Floyd, Gordon Parks, and the Ominous Power of Photographs From the Civil Rights Movement to Black Lives Matter, Can images help fight injustice? By Deborah Willis

Visualizing Racism, Nine photographers take on the challenge of depicting bigotry

When the Camera Was a Weapon of Imperialism. (And When It Still Is.) By Teju Cole

The Telling of Black Stories and the importance of controlling our own narratives

 

SOCIAL MEDIA ACCOUNTS TO FOLLOW

Center for Antiracist Research: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook

Audre Lorde Project: Twitter I lnstagram I Facebook

Black Women's Blueprint: Twitter I lnstagram I Facebook

Color Of Change: Twitter I Facebook

Colorlines: Twitter I lnstagram I Facebook

The Conscious Kidlnstagram I Facebook

Equal Justice Initiative (EJI): Twitter I lnstagram I Facebook

Families Belong Together: Twitter I lnstagram I Facebook

The Leadership Conference on Civil & Human Rights: Twitter I Facebook

MPowerChange: Twitter I lnstagram I Facebook

Muslim Girl: Twitter I lnstagram I Facebook

NAACP: Twitter I lnstagram I Facebook

National Domestic Workers Alliance: Twitter I Facebook

RAICES: Twitter I lnstagram I Facebook

Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ): Twitter I lnstagram I Facebook

SisterSong: Twitter | Instagram I Facebook

United We Dream: Twitter I lnstagram I Facebook

 

VIDEOS

Black Feminism & the Movement for Black Lives: Barbara Smith, Reina Gossett, Charlene Carruthers (50:48)

"How Studying Privilege Systems Can Strengthen Compassion" I Peggy McIntosh at TEDxTimberlaneSchools (18:26)

Dr. Robin DiAngelo discusses 'White Fragility' (1:23:30)

 

FILM/TELEVISION

13th (Ava DuVernay) I Netflix

American Son (Kenny Leon) I Netflix

Black Power Mixtape: 1967-1975 I Available to rent

Clemency (Chinonye Chukwu) I Available to rent

Dear White People (Justin Simien) I Netflix

Fruitvale Station (Ryan Coogler) I Available to rent

I Am Not Your Negro (James Baldwin doc) I Available to rent or on Kanopy

If Beale Street Could Talk (Barry Jenkins) I Hulu

Just Mercy (Destin Daniel Cretton) I Available to rent

King In The Wilderness I HBO

See You Yesterday (Stefon Bristol) I Netflix

Selma (Ava DuVernay) I Available to rent

The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution I Available to rent

The Hate U Give (George Tillman Jr.) I Hulu with Cinemax

When They See Us (Ava DuVernay) I Netflix

Black Lives: Collection of films from the Criterion Channel Streaming for Free until the end of June.

Hale County This Morning, This Evening: An inspired and intimate portrait of a place and its people, this documentary looks at the lives of Daniel Collins and Quincy Bryant, two young African American men from rural Hale County, Alabama, over the course of five years.

The Last Black Man in San Francisco: Jimmie Fails dreams of reclaiming the Victorian home his grandfather built in the heart of San Francisco. Joined on his quest by his best friend Mont, Jimmie searches for belonging in a rapidly changing city that seems to have left them behind. As he struggles to reconnect with his family and reconstruct the community he longs for, his hopes blind him to the reality of his situation.

Moonlight: A timeless story of human connection and self-discovery, Moonlight chronicles the life of a young black man from childhood to adulthood as he struggles to find his place in the world while growing up in a rough neighborhood of Miami.

Hyènes (Hyenas): One of the treasures of African cinema, Senegalese master Mambéty’s long-delayed follow-up to his canonical Touki Bouki is a hallucinatory comic adaptation of Swiss avant-garde writer Friedrich Dürrenmatt’s play The Visit, which in Mambéty’s imagining follows a now-rich woman returning to her poor desert hometown to propose a deal to the populace: her fortune, in exchange for the death of the man who years earlier abandoned her and left her with his child.

 

PARENT RESOURCES

The Conscious Kid: follow them on Instagram and consider signing up for their Patreon

Books

Coretta Scott King Book Award Winners: books for children and young adults

31 Children's books to support conversations on race, racism and resistance

White Kids: Growing Up with Privilege in a Racially Divided America (Critical Perspectives on Youth) Margaret A. Hagerman

Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria: And Other Conversations About Race 5th Anniv., Revised Edition by Beverly Daniel Tatum

Podcasts

Parenting Forward podcast episode ‘Five Pandemic Parenting Lessons with Cindy Wang Brandt’

Fare of the Free Child podcast

Integrated Schools podcast episode “Raising White Kids with Jennifer Harvey”

Articles

How White Parents Can Talk To Their Kids About Race | NPR

Teaching Your Child About Black History Month | PBS

Your Kids Aren't Too Young to Talk About Race: Resource Roundup from Pretty Good

https://www.parenttoolkit.com/social-and-emotional-development/advice/social-awareness/how-to-talk-to-kids-about-race-and-racism