Advocacy:

#BlackLivesMatter Resources

Educate yourself, donate if you can, and advocate for change within your social circles.

Read:
○ So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo - Pick it up at your local library, order it here, or get it as an audiobook here​.
Description: In this New York Times bestseller, Oluo offers a hard-hitting, user-friendly examination of race in America. Each chapter title is a question about race in contemporary America, Oluo outlines her opinions on the topics as well as advice about how to talk about the issues.

○ White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo - Pick it up at your local library, order it here, or get it as an audiobook here.
​​Description: The New York Times best-selling book exploring the counterproductive reactions white people have when their assumptions about race are challenged, and how these reactions maintain racial inequality.

○ How to Be an Anti-Racist by Ibram X. Kendi - Pick it up at your local library, order it here, or get it as an audiobook here.
Description: Ibram X. Kendi's concept of antiracism reenergizes and reshapes the conversation about racial justice in America--but even more fundamentally, points us toward liberating new ways of thinking about ourselves and each other. In How to be an Antiracist, Kendi asks us to think about what an antiracist society might look like, and how we can play an active role in building it.

​Watch:
○ 13th - Available on Netflix, and on YouTube for free here.
​Description: An eye-opening documentary directed by the award winning Ava DuVernay, this film exposes the United States' criminal justice system, marking its role in modern day slavery. 

○ Just Mercy - Available on Amazon Prime Video.
Description: Stars Michael B. Jordan, Brie Larson, and Jamie Foxx. Based on  the true story of civil rights lawyer Bryan Stevenson’s work on death row in Alabama. 

○ Becoming - Available on Netflix.
Description: Follow former first lady Michelle Obama as she tours the United States for the book tour following the release of her autobiography Becoming. Joyful, honest, and inspiring, this documentary offers an inside look at the life of a true trailblazer.

Listen:
○ Code Switch by NPR - Available on Spotify and via NPR. 
Description: Code Switch is the fearless conversation about race that you've been waiting for! Hosted by journalists of color, the podcast tackles the topic of race head-on, exploring how it impacts every part of society - from politics, to pop culture, to history, sports, and everything in between. 

Donate:
○ Black Lives Matter - find your local BLM Chapter and support them directly by going here.
Description: #BlackLivesMatter was founded in 2013 in response to the acquittal of Trayvon Martin’s murderer. 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. By combating and countering acts of violence, creating space for Black imagination and innovation, and centering Black joy, we are winning immediate improvements in our lives.

○ Color of Change - donate here.
Description: Color Of Change helps you do something real about injustice. We design campaigns powerful enough to end practices that unfairly hold Black people back, and champion solutions that move us all forward. Until justice is real.

○ NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. - donate here.
Description: The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. is America’s premier 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.

Find further resources on the Black Lives Matter site by clicking here.

Author's Note: This list was created in July of 2020.
Many thanks to MLEMONDESIGN, whose website provided a frame of reference whilst building this list of resources.