Advocacy Resources
"It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake."
- Frederick Douglass
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Community Needs
Healing Resources for BIPOC Organizers & Allies Taking Action for Black Lives
Anti-Racism Resources for White People
Twin Cities Aid Distribution Locations
Venture NorthMobile Volunteers - an emergency bike service team organized by Venture North Bike Walk & Coffee.
Homeless black trans women fund
Black Trans femmes in the arts fund
Good Energy Activities for Kids//How to talk to your children about difficult topics
Read
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migrationby Isabel Wilkerson
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindnessby Michelle Alexander
So You Want to Talk About Raceby Ijeoma Oluo
How To Be An Antiracistby Ibram X. Kendi
White Fragilityby Robin DiAngelo
Biasedby Dr. Jennifer Eberhardt
Raising White Kids: Bringing Up Children In A Racially Unjust Americaby Jennifer Harvey
Citizen: An American Lyricby Claudia Rankine
Race Against Time: A Reporter Reopens The Unsolved Murder Cases of the Civil Rights Eraby Jerry Mitchell
They Were Her Propertyby Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers
I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whitenessby
Austin Channing Brown
Me and White Supremacyby Layla F. Saad
Between the World and Meby Ta-Nehisi Coates
The Bluest Eyeby Toni Morrison
The Fire Next Timeby James Baldwin
My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodiesby Resmaa Menakem
Whistling Vivaldi: How Stereotypes Affect Us and What We Can Doby Claude M. Steele
An American Marriageby Tayari Jones
The Color of Lawby Richard Rothstein
The Little Book of Race and Restorative Justiceby Fania Davis
Black Food Geographiesby Ashanté M. Reese
Race for Profitby Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
The Hidden Cost of Being African American: How Wealth Perpetuates Inequalityby Thomas M. Shapiro
The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gapby
Mehrsa Baradaran
Stamped From the Beginningby Ibram X. Kendi
The Strange Career of Jim Crowby C. Vann Woodward (Martin Luther King Jr. called this “the historical bible of the Civil Rights movement.)
Nobody: Casualties of America’s War on the Vulnerable, from Ferguson to Flint and BeyondbyMarc Lamont Hill
The Autobiography of Malcolm X: As Told to Alex Haley
Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crowby Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Homegoingby Yaa Gyasi
The Yellow Houseby Sarah M. Broom
The Sweeter the Juice: A Family Memoir in Black and Whiteby Shirlee Taylor Haizlip
When Affirmative Action Was Whiteby Ira Katznelson
Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Presentby Harriet A. Washington
Watch
The Hate UGive,a film based on theYA noveloffering an intimate portrait of race in America
Just Mercy, a film based on civil rights lawyer Bryan Stevenson’s work on death row in Alabama
The1965 debatebetween James Baldwin and William F. Buckley
My hour on the history of Confederate statues in Nat Geo’sAmerica Inside Out
Becoming,a Netflix documentary following Michelle Obama on her book tour
Let It Fall,a documentary looking at racial tensions in Los Angeles and the 1992 riots over LAPD officers’ brutal assault on Rodney King
When They See Us, a Netflix miniseries from Ava DuVernay about the Central Park Five
13th, a Netflix documentary exposing racial inequality within the criminal justice system
I Am Not Your Negro, a documentary envisioning the book James Baldwin was never able to finish
Selma, a film that chronicles the marches of the Civil Rights Movement
Whose Streets?,a documentary about the uprising in Ferguson
Fruitvale Station, a film with Michael B. Jordan about the killing of Oscar Grant
American Son, a film with Kerry Washington about an estranged interracial couple waiting for their missing son
The Central Park Five, a documentary from Ken Burns
A Class Divided, a Frontline documentary
Donate
IN ORDER OF MOST PRESSING NEED FOR SUPPORT:
To support Communities United Against Police Brutality, clickhereandhere.
To support Racial Justice Network, clickhereandhere.
To support Twin Cities Coalition for Justice 4 Jamar, clickhereandhere.
To support the Minnesota ACLU, clickhere.
To support Black Vision Collective, clickhere.
To support Rethink Tailoring Lounge and their support of protesters, clickhereandhere.
To support B. Resale and their support of protesters, clickhereandhere.
To donate to efforts to rebuild and clean up Lake street,click here.
To support Black Lives Matter Twin Cities Metro, clickhere.
To support North Star Health Collective, clickhereandhere.
To support Unicorn Riot, clickhereandhere.
To support bail funds for protesters being arrested, donate to the Minnesota Freedom Fund here.