Resources and Actions

Donate:

• I Run With Maud
• Tony McDade Memorial Fund
• The Okra Project
• Justice for Breonna Taylor
• The Bail Project
• Black Girls Code
• Black Lives Matter Global Network
• The National Police Accountability Project
• NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
• Youth Breakout
• House of GG
• Split donations between several orgs
• Split donations between several orgs: bail funds
• A much more exhaustive list

Impact Policy:

• Complete the Census and encourage others to do the same
• Sign this petition - Justice for Breonna Taylor
• Sign this petition - Protect Black Voters
• Sign this petition - Police reform
• Sign this petition - Designate the KKK a terror organization
• Sign this petition - repeal 50-a in New York - Repealed 
• Know your Community District and elected officials (Lookup link for NYC residents)
• Familiarize yourself with your state's important voting dates/elections
• More information on registration deadlines and election dates
• Find your voter registration deadlines
• Register to vote
• Read the Daily Digest of the House and Senate
• Take the Harvard Implicit Bias test (not policy, but important)

Interest-specific lists of action:

• Amplifying black women's voices in the running community, Molly Mirhashem
• Black Voices of the Running Community You Should Listen to and Amplify Right Now
• Your Favorite Music Exists Because of Black People, Jenzia Burgos

Follow:

Twitter

• David Goggins
• Bree Newsome
• Bernice King
• John Lewis
• Samantha Irby
• Latoya Shauntay Snell
• Joe Gray
• Strong Black Lead
• Survived and Punished
• Prison Culture
• Renee Graham
• Cheo Hodari Coker

Instagram

• Black Lives Matter
• Dr. Yusuf Salaam
• Ijeoma Oluo
• Rachel Cargle
• R29 Unbothered
• Adrian Brandon
• Coffey

Read

All links below are from Mahogany Books, a black-owned bookstore in Washington, DC and The Lit Bar, a black-owned bookstore in the Bronx, NY.

Nonfiction

• Can't Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds, David Goggins
• Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates
• The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, Michelle Alexander
• Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment, Patricia Hill Collins
• Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower, Brittney Cooper
• Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-First Century, Dorothy Roberts
• The Fire Next Time, James Baldwin
• When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America, Ira Katznelson
• Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color, Andrea J. Ritchie
• Thick: And Other Essays, Tressie McMillan Cottom
• Difficult Women, Roxane Gay
• Black Boy, Richard Wright
• Josephine Baker: The Hungry Heart, Chris Chase and Jean-Claude Baker
• White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism, Robin DeAngelo
• Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools, Monique W. Morris
• The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl, Issa Rae
• You Can't Touch My Hair, Phoebe Robinson

Article Roundup (6/16-7/8):

• Say Her Name: How the Fight for Racial Justice Can Be More Inclusive of Black Women (7/7)
• Officer Fired in Shooting Death of Breonna Taylor (6/23)
• Transgender murders are 'rampant' in 2020: Human Rights Campaign counts 21 so far, nearly matching total of a year ago (7/8)
• Independent autopsy reveals Andres Guardado was shot five times in the back (7/8)
• Moving Beyond Diversity Toward Racial Equity (6/16)
• 8 Black investors discuss the intersection of race, tech, and funding (7/7)
• NBA Player to Donate 'Every Cent' of His Salary to Social Justice Issues (7/8)
• A little shocked this is still a thing: Scrabble Tournaments Move Toward Banning Racial and Ethnic Slurs (7/7)
• 'The military's #MeToo': Vanessa Guillen's slaying has many servicewomen revisiting their own deep scars (7/7)

Fiction

• Passing, Nella Larsen
• The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison
• Beloved, Toni Morrison
• Jazz, Toni Morrison
• I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelou
• Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston
• World of Wakanda (graphic novel), Roxane Gay, Ta-Nehisi Coates
• Native Son, Richard Wright
• Breathe, A Letter to My Sons, Imani Perry
• The Broken Earth series, NK Jemisin
• How Long 'Til Black Future Month, NK Jemisin
• An American Marriage, Tayari Jones
• Ayiti, Roxane Gay
• Americanah, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Watch:

Documentary

• 13TH
• 16 Shots
• Crime + Punishment
• Say Her Name: The Life and Death of Sandra Bland
• The Death & Life of Marsha P. Johnson
• Ferguson: A Report from Occupied Territory
• I Am Not Your Negro
• Let the Fire Burn
• Stay Woke: The Black Lives Matter Movement
• 3 1/2 Minutes, 10 Bullets
• Who Killed Malcolm X?
• LA 92
• Hip-Hop Evolution
• What Happened, Miss Simone?
• Hale County This Morning, This Evening
• American Trial: The Eric Garner Story
• American Son
• Black Power Mixtape: 1967-1975
• Blindspotting
• Clemency
• King in the Wilderness
• The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution
• The Rape of Recy Taylor
• They've Gotta Have Us
• Time: The Kalief Browder Story
• Tupac: Resurrection

Narrative

Shows

• When They See Us
• Dear White People
• She's Gotta Have It
• Blood & Water
• Chewing Gum
• On My Block
• Astronomy Club
• Watchmen
• Netflix Adds Black Lives Matter collection as its own genre

Movies

• Fast Color (2018: Sci-fi, superhero)
• Moonlight (2016: Coming-of-age drama, LGBT)
• Spider-Man Into the Spiderverse (2018, animated superhero)
• Do the Right Thing (1989: comedy-drama)
• Selma (2014: historical drama)
• The Hate U Give (2018: drama)
• Loving (2016: biographical romantic drama)
• See You Yesterday (2019: science fiction)
• Just Mercy (2019: legal drama)
• Fruitvale Station (2013: biographical drama)
• Get Out (2017: horror)
• If Beale Street Could Talk (2018: romantic drama)
• Us (2019: horror)
• Ray (2004, biographical drama)
• Baadasssss! (2003: biopic)
• Brother to Brother (2004: drama, LGBT)
• Hotel Rwanda (2004: drama)
• Woman Thou Art Loosed (2004, drama)
• Hustle & Flow (2005: drama)
• Dreamgirls (2006: musical drama)
• Akeelah and the Bee (2006: drama)
• Catch a Fire (2006: biographical thriller)
• Idlewild (2006: musical)
• Inside Man (2006: heist thriller)
• The Pursuit of Happyness
• Talk to Me
• The Great Debaters
• Cadillac Records

Listen:

Podcasts

• Okay, Now Listen
• Code Switch
• The Read
• 1619

Comedy

• Naomi Ekperigin
• Shut Up, Michelle Buteau
• Ticking Boxes, Gina Yashere
• Donna's Daughter, Sam Jay
• Late Night With Jimmy Fallon, Calise Hawkins
• Cookie Hull
• Black and Mild, Janelle James
• Leslie Jones: Time Machine
• Single Black Female, Marina Franklin
• Pizza Mind, Sasheer Zamata
• Tiffany Haddish Presents: They Ready, Tiffany Haddish, Tracey Ashley, Flame Monroe, Aida Rodriguez, Marlo Williams, April Macy, Chaunte Williams

For More:

• Black Lives Matter action list
• 7 Ways Non-Black POCs Can Be Better Allies
• The antiracist resources Fortune staffers are sharing
• 25 Anti-racist Instagram Accounts to Follow for Listening, Learning, and Action-taking
• 11 Anti-Racist Accounts That Are Worth Following
• How to Support Black Trans People Right Now
• 11 Movies that confront American racism