Black Lives Matter
Star Wars can wait: we need to talk about how Black lives matter right now. Resources discussed in the show (plus extras) are below, but above all, listen to Black people right now. NBPOC and white people need to step up with direct action and stop centering ourselves during this time. Donate: secure.Actblue.com: allows for splitting donations to multiple bond funds, there is a processing fee Directly to bail funds - THEY ARE REALLY IMPORTANT CommunityJusticeExchange.org Chicago Community Bond Fund Minnesota Freedom Fund Blacklivesmatter, your local chapters Blacklivesmatters.carrd.co - THIS HAS EVERYTHING NAACP People’s City Council Freedom Fund (LA) joinCampaignZERO.org Loveland Foundation Therapy DONATE WITHOUT MONEY VIA YOUTUBE: bit.ly/donatewithoutcash Read and donate to Wear Your Voice GOOGLE: Tulsa Massacre Seneca Village Fred Hampton Dorothy Height Assata Shakur Ella Baker Malcolm X - READ HIS AUTOBIOGRAPHY not the white propaganda you learn in schools READ: How to be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi (also wrote Stamped From the Beginning) So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo White Fragility by Robin Diangelo (White Author) Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower by Brittney Coooper Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison Between the World and Me by Ta-nehisi Coates The Autobiography of Malcolm X as told by Alex Haley Motherhood so White by Nefertiti Austin Aint I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism by bell hooks The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander Are Prisons Obsolete? By Angela Davis Medical Apartheid by Harriet A. Washington The Body is Not an Apology By Sonya Renee Taylor “Why are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?”: A Psychologist Explains the Development of Racial Identity by Beverly Daniel Tatum Dread Nation by Justina Ireland We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy by Ta-Nehisi Coates Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas We’re Going to Need More Wine by Gabrielle Union Assata: An Autobiography by Assata Shakur The End of Policing by Alex S. Vitale You Can’t Touch My Hair: And Other Things I Still Have to Explain by Phoebe Robinson Critical Race Theory by Kimberle Crenshaw WATCH: 13th Selma Just Mercy The Hate U Give I Am Not Your Negro #blacklivesmatter
