Actions You Can Do Now:
- Divest Police and Invest in Black and Brown Communities
- Milwaukee Freedom Fund
- Black National Convention
- BLK Paper – BLKPAPER is art for organizing on racial justice, all day.
Immediate reading:
- White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack Peggy McIntosh
- An Uprising Was Inevitable
- How white people can stop Black death #StopKillingForUs
- Why Police Reform Is Not Enough
- Where do I donate for Black Lives Matter? Why is the uprising violent? Should I go protest?
- White Supremacy Culture
- A Police Free Future
- Rebellions Work - Yes! Magazine
Powerful Voices
To watch:
- Black Feminism & the Movement for Black Lives: Barbara Smith, Reina Gossett, Charlene Carruthers
- Black Lives Matter Spoken Word- David Bianchi
Organizations to follow & donate to:
- The Audre Lorde Project
- Black Feminist Collective
- Black Alliance For Peace
- Black Alliance for Just Immigration: BAJI
- Poor People's Campaign
- Black Emotional and Mental Health (BEAM) Collective
- The Rising Majority – We Are The Majority
- Newark Community Street Team
- Black Agenda Report
- National Bail Fund Network
- The Okra Project
Other reading
- Redefining Black Power, Michelle Alexander
- Me and My White Supremacy, Layla F. Saad
- The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle The Master’s House, Audre Lorde
- A Life in the Struggle: Ivory Perry and the Culture of Opposition, George Lipsitz
- The New Jim Crow, Michelle Alexander
- The Souls of Black Folk, W.E.B. Du Bois
- I Am Negro, James Baldwin
- Capitalism and Slavery, Eric Williams
- Are Prisons Obsolete?, Angela Davis
- In The Case of Freedom, Minkah Makalani
- My Mother Was A Freedom Fighter, Aja Monet
- Killing the Black Body, Dorothy Roberts
- Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism, Gerald Horn
