Always Learning

We are living in a historical time and we must keep the momentum going. I believe there is always room to learn and actions to take in order to make the world a better place. This is a list of resources that I hope you will find useful!

What to READ:

Articles 

• A Timeline of Events That Led to the 2020 ‘Fed Up’-rising (The Root)
• How Much Do We Need the Police? (NPR)
• Violence Never Works? Really? How do you think this country came to be? (Medium)
• Protesting Racism Versus Risking COVID-19: 'I Wouldn't Weigh These Crises Separately' (NPR)
• What ‘Defund the Police’ Actually Means (The Atlantic)

• Call it what it is: Anti-Blackness (NY Times)

Books

• Necessary Reading List (Compiled by @gravewine on IG)
• Free Books to Download (Black Life Network)
• BLM Instructional Library (Read aloud books for kids)

Other

• Ally Identity Development Model

•  Justice in June

•  Anti-Racism Resources

• Non-Black Latinx Resources on Anti-Blackness

•  How to talk to your families in Spanish (Academic Mami)

• Implicit Bias Test

What to WATCH:

• 13th (Ava Duvernay)
• Stay Woke: The Black Lives Matter Movement Documentary (2016)
• Ibram X. Kendi on the solution for America's "metastatic" racism
• White Fragility Robin DiAngelo (PBS)
• Kimberle Crenshaw The Urgency of Intersectionality (TED)

What to LISTEN to:

• Code Switch (NPR)
• Witness Black History (BBC)

• 1619 (NY Times)

• 35 Black Podcasts You Need to Tune Into and Download (Black Enterprise)

• Top 25 Black Podcasts You Must Follow in 2020

Where to SHOP:

• Support LA’s Black-Owned Restaurants
• 200+ Black-Owned Etsy Shops
• 125 Black-Owned Bookstores
• 50 Black-Owned Beauty Brands You Can Support Right Now
• Black-Owned Coffee Brands

Where to DONATE & SIGN:

• Ways You Can Help (Black Lives Matter)
• National Resources List
• Online Petition Links
• Birthday for Breonna Taylor
• Petitions and Donations