Becoming a better Ally and Educating yourself:

 

Listen to these podcasts: ( You can find these podcasts on SoundCloud, Podcast app on apple devices and google play podcast app) 

 

•  Tell black stories 

• Codeswitch 

• About race 

• Seeing white 

• Momentum: A race forward podcast 

• The diversity Gap 

• Intersectionality Matters! Hosted by Kimberly Crenshaw 

• The stoop 

• Still processing 

• You had me at black 

 

Films, Documentaries and shows: (streaming and on demand)

 

• Race- the power of an illusion (PBS)

• When they see us (netflix)

• 13th (Netflix) 

• Freedom Writers ( Netflix)

• LA92 (Netflix) 

• The Hate you Give (Prime/ Cinemax) 

• Just mercy (Youtube) 

• Dear White people (Netflix)

• If Beale Street could talk (Hulu)

• Selma (All Digital platforms)

• American Son (Netflix)

• Detroit (Hulu) 

• I’m not your negro (Prime)

• A different World (prime) 

• Blackish (on demand and Hulu) 

 

And for black Excellence and to celebrate black people

 

• Becoming (netflix)

• Homecoming (netflix)

• Black Panther ( DisneyPlus)

 

Read These Books: 

• How Europe Underdeveloped Africa By Walter Rodney 

• White Fragility by Robin Diangelo

• The Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander 

• Citizen and american Lyric by Claudia Rankine

• White Like me: Reflection on race from a privilege son By Tim wise 

 

All of the above resources are just a starting point for research and education on the black experience. We STRONGLY suggest doing additional research on your own to find what really appeals to you. 

 

Ways to help is also:

 

• Black women radicals and AAFC solidarity reading list: https://www.blackwomenradicals.com/blog-feed/black-and-asian-feminist-solidarities-a-reading-list

• Article: Amy cooper knew exactly what she was doing by zeba blay https://www.huffpost.com/entry/amy-cooper-knew-exactly-what-she-was-doing_n_5ecd1d89c5b6c1f281e0fbc5

• “Algorithms of oppression” book club and study group by mandy harris williams, free black womens’ library and womens’ center for creative work https://womenscenterforcreativework.com/events/algorithms-of-oppression/

• George floyd memorial fund by his brother: https://www.gofundme.com/f/georgefloyd

• Minnesota Freedom Fund: https://minnesotafreedomfund.org/donate

• I run with amaud- Justice For maud Arbery fundraiser: https://www.gofundme.com/f/i-run-with-maud

• Justice For Breonna Taylor Fundraiser: https://www.change.org/p/andy-beshear-justice-for-breonna-taylor

• National Bail Out Fund: 

• Purchasing from black own businesses, 

• ubereats is giving free delivery fee for all black owned restaurants 

• Wix is selling shirts amongst other places. 

• Watching youtube playlist in support of BLM so the ads donate .10 per ad to the movement. 

• Donating to any blackowned nonprofit 

• Signing petition in support of the various causes

 

AND SO MUCH MORE! GOOGLE IT YOU CAN FIND IT EVERYWHERE AND ANYWHERE!