Blm resources

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Bail Funds, Mutual Aid, & Petitioning - Stop giving money to Shaun King. Do not share his posts.

• Black Lives Matter

• Split a Donation Between 70+ Community Bail Funds

• The Bail Project

• Black Lives Matter 

• National Resource List #GeorgeFloyd

• National Bail Fund Network - COVID-19 Emergency Response Fund

• Organizations Benefiting Black Americans

• Black & Pink

• Black Trans Femmes in The Arts

• The Freedom Fund

• Black Journalists Therapy Relief Fund

• Actionable Items for New Yorkers

• Donate With No Money
  The Marsha P. Johnson Institute

Canadian Resources

• “Black Organizations and Anti-Racist Groups Canadians Can Support Now” by Melanie Woods

• Canadian Organizations to Donate To

• Black Legal Action Centre

• Black Health Alliance

• Justice for Regis

• Noprisons.ca

• Re-Distribute Your Paycheques: Resources List

• Vancouver Mutual Aid

• We Must Defund The Police. It's The Only Option by Sandy Hudson

Accessible Viewing Materials - We understand that not everyone has access to subscription based view materials.

• Black Communities in Canada by NBF

Protesting Safely

• Image Scrubber, a tool for anonymizing photos taken at protests.

• How to Safely and Ethically Film Police Misconduct by Palika Makam

• How to Protest Safely in The Age of Surveillance by Andy Greenberg and Lily Hay Newman

• National Lawyers Guild

• Practical Guide To: Protesting & Pandemic Prevention

Reading Materials

• 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

• Raising Our Hands by Jenna Arnold

• 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 Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander

• The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century by 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

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)

• Seeing White