Black Lives Matter
It's not just a hashtag or a social media bandwagon. It's a plea for change. Generations of systemic racism, injustice, pain, and fear won't go away overnight.
Please join me in taking the time to listen, learn, and do something to effect lasting change.
Read these articles
Simply Existing While Black Can Kill You
White Guide to the Galaxy
How Well-Intentioned White Families Can Perpetuate Racism
How White Women Can Use Their Privilege to End Racism
The Damage That White Onlookers Inflict
Donate here.
George Floyd Bail Funds
LGBTQ Fund
NAACP
The Bail Project
Black Lives Matter Foundation
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...and these books.
So You Want To Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
Between The World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
Good Talk by Mira Jacob
The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
Blindspot by Mahzarin Banaji & Anthony Greenwald
Freedom is a Constant Struggle by Angela Davis
On the Other Side of Freedom by DeRay McKesson
Algorithms of Oppression by Safiya Noble
Rage Inside The Machine by Rob Smith
Technically Wrong by Sara Wachter-Boettcher
An Indigenous People's History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
How To Be Less Stupid About Race by Crystal M Fleming
Killing Rage by bell hooks
They Were Her Property by Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers
White Tears, Brown Scars by Ruby Hamad
Why I'm No Longer Talking About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge
Watch these videos.
It’s Been Burning for a While
We Need to Talk About an Injustice
What If We Ended the Injustice of Bail?
A Prosecutor's Vision for a Better Justice System
How to Raise a Black Son in America