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Sign this petition - repeal 50-a in New York- Repealed- Know your Community District and elected officials (Lookup link for NYC residents)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:
Follow:
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
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
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