Ep 17- Championing Change- w/guest Bria Evans on George Floyd’s death & Healing Racism in America

LISTEN TO THE EPISODE WITH BRIAN EVANS HERE. 

This document is intended to serve as a resource to white people and parents to deepen our anti-racism work. If you haven’t engaged in anti-racism work in the past, start now. Feel free to circulate this document on social media.

To take immediate action to fight for Breonna Taylor, please visit FightForBreonna.org.

Resources for white parents to raise anti-racist children:

• Check out these books for children and young adults from the list of Coretta Scott King Book Award Winners

• Listen to the Parenting Forward podcast episode ‘Five Pandemic Parenting Lessons with Cindy Wang Brandt’

• Listen to the Fare of the Free Child podcast

• Read PBS’s Teaching Your Child About Black History Month

• Follow The Conscious Kid on Instagram

Articles to read:

• “America’s Racial Contract Is Killing Us” by Adam Serwer | Atlantic (May 8, 2020)

• Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement (Mentoring a New Generation of Activists

• ”My Life as an Undocumented Immigrant” by Jose Antonio Vargas | NYT Mag (June 22, 2011)

• The 1619 Project (all the articles) | The New York Times Magazine

• “The Intersectionality Wars” by Jane Coaston | Vox (May 28, 2019)

• Tips for Creating Effective White Caucus Groups developed by Craig Elliott PhD

• ”White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack” by Knapsack Peggy McIntosh

• “Who Gets to Be Afraid in America?” by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi | Atlantic (May 12, 2020)

Videos to watch:

• Black Feminism & the Movement for Black Lives: Barbara Smith, Reina Gossett, Charlene Carruthers (50:48)

• “How Studying Privilege Systems Can Strengthen Compassion” | Peggy McIntosh at TEDxTimberlaneSchools (18:26)

Podcasts to subscribe to:

• 1619 (New York Times)

• About Race

• Code Switch (NPR)

• Intersectionality Matters! hosted by Kimberlé Crenshaw

• Momentum: A Race Forward Podcast

• Pod For The Cause (from The Leadership Conference on Civil & Human Rights)

• Pod Save the People (Crooked Media)

• The Combahee River Collective Statement

Books to read:

• Black Feminist Thought by Patricia Hill Collins

• Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower by Dr. Brittney Cooper

• Heavy: An American Memoir by Kiese Laymon

• How To Be An Antiracist by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi

• I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

• Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson

• Me and White Supremacy by Layla F. Saad

• Redefining Realness by Janet Mock

• Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde

• So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo

• The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

• The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin

• The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindnessby Michelle Alexander

• The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Centuryby Grace Lee Boggs

• The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson

• Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

• This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color by Cherríe Moraga

• When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America by Ira Katznelson

• White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo, PhD

Films and TV series to watch:

• 13th (Ava DuVernay) — Netflix

• American Son (Kenny Leon) — Netflix

• Black Power Mixtape: 1967-1975 — Available to rent

• Clemency (Chinonye Chukwu) — Available to rent

• Dear White People (Justin Simien) — Netflix

• Fruitvale Station (Ryan Coogler) — Available to rent

• I Am Not Your Negro (James Baldwin doc) — Available to rent or on Kanopy

• If Beale Street Could Talk (Barry Jenkins) — Hulu

• Just Mercy (Destin Daniel Cretton) — Available to rent

• King In The Wilderness  — HBO

• See You Yesterday (Stefon Bristol) — Netflix

• Selma (Ava DuVernay) — Available to rent

• The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution — Available to rent

• The Hate U Give (George Tillman Jr.) — Hulu with Cinemax

• When They See Us (Ava DuVernay) — Netflix

Organizations to follow on social media:

• Antiracism Center: Twitter

• Audre Lorde Project: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook

• Black Women’s Blueprint: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook

• Color Of Change: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook

• Colorlines: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook

• The Conscious Kid: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook

• Equal Justice Initiative (EJI): Twitter | Instagram | Facebook

• Families Belong Together: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook

• The Leadership Conference on Civil & Human Rights: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook

• MPowerChange: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook

• Muslim Girl: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook

• NAACP: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook

• National Domestic Workers Alliance: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook

• RAICES: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook

• Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ): Twitter | Instagram | Facebook

• SisterSong: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook

• United We Dream: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook

More anti-racism resources to check out:

• 75 Things White People Can Do for Racial Justice

• Anti-Racism Project

• Jenna Arnold’s resources (books and people to follow)

• Rachel Ricketts’ anti-racism resources

• Resources for White People to Learn and Talk About Race and Racism

• Showing Up For Racial Justice’s educational toolkits

• “Why is this happening?” — an introduction to police brutality from 100 Year Hoodie

• Zinn Education Project’s teaching materials

Document compiled by Sarah Sophie Flicker, Alyssa Klein in May 2020.