The Black Lives Matter is a campaign for justice! And while it began in America, the issue of racism has resonated throughout the world including here in Aotearoa. There are seas of information about the movement online – so much that it’s easy to get lost. As a result, we have put together a list of resources about the campaign and the issue. This is not an exhaustive list but we have tried to ensure that the sources are trusted, learned and influenced by people and communities who have lived experience of the struggle of being Black and being in America.
Webinars
White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism – Dr Robin DiAngelo
Free PDF books
- The End of Policing by Alex Vitale
- Accomplices Not Allies: Abolishing the Ally Industrial Complex
- Are Prisons Obsolete? By Angela Y. Davis
- Are Prisons Obsolete? ( Narrated audiobook)
- Queering Anarchism
- Me and White Supremacy: Layla F Saad
- TREASURE TROVE of PDF books on critical race theory
- Master list of Black Revolutionary texts
- Black Feminist Library
- Hannah Arend – The Origins of Totalitarianism
- Scholastique Mukasonga – Cockroaches
- Antonio Negri & Michael Hardt – Empire
- Geraldine Moane – Gender and Colonialism. A Psychological Analysis on Oppression and Liberation
- Mumia Abu-Jamal – We Want Freedom
- Selected plays and prose of Amiri Baraka/Leroi Jones
- The Leroi Jones/Amiri Baraka Reader
Books for children
- Coretta Scott King Book Award Winners: books for children and young adults
- 31 Children’s books to support conversations on race, racism, and resistance
Podcasts
- 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
- Alex Vitale – The End of Policing (In Conversation)
- A Decade of Watching Black People Die
Podcast for parents and children
- Parenting Forward podcast episode ‘Five Pandemic Parenting Lessons with Cindy Wang Brandt’
- Fare of the Free Child podcast
- Integrated Schools podcast episode “Raising White Kids with Jennifer Harvey”
Other resources
Talking about race (Portal by the National Museum of African American History and Culture)
Where to donate
If you do have money to redistribute:
- Master list of bailout funds
- https://www.theokraproject.com (works to get black trans people home-cooked and healthy meals)
- https://linktr.ee/showupnow (list of links to many bailout funds)
- George Floyd Memorial Fund
- minnesotafreedomfund.org/donate
- https://www.instagram.com/mnfreedomfund/
- http://atlsolidarity.org
- Black mamas bailout fund
- long list of bailouts by the state (long list of bailouts by state)
Petitions to sign
- Justice For Tony McDade
- Justice for Breonna Taylor
- Justice for George Floyd
- Justice for Ahmaud Arbery! I Run with Maud!
Sites
Articles and essays
- Against Innocence Race, Gender, and the politics of Safety – JACKIE WANG
- Forty Acres and a Mule in the 21st Century (Darity, 2008)
- In Defense of Looting
- Racialized Violence in the Lives of Black People (Nicolas & Thompson, 2019
- Humanizing Blackness: An Interview w/ Tommy J. Curry (Utley, 2016)
- Toward a Black Psychology (White, 1970)
- 75 Things White People Can Do for Racial Justice
- African Personality Development: Developmental Issues for AA Children (from The African Personality in America; Kambon, 1992)
- “America’s Racial Contract Is Killing Us” by Adam Serwer | Atlantic (May 8, 2020)
- Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement (Mentoring a New Generation of Activists
- “My Life as an Undocumented Immigrant” by Jose Antonio Vargas | NYT Mag (June 22, 2011)
- The 1619 Project (all the articles) | The New York Times Magazine
- The Combahee River Collective Statement
- “The Intersectionality Wars” by Jane Coaston | Vox (May 28, 2019)
- Tips for Creating Effective White Caucus Groups developed by Craig Elliott PhD
- “Where do I donate? Why is the uprising violent? Should I go protest?” by Courtney Martin (June 1, 2020)
- ”White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack” by Knapsack Peggy McIntosh
- “Who Gets to Be Afraid in America?” by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi | Atlantic (May 12, 2020)
- bell hooks – Feminism Inside: Toward a Black Body Politic
- Interpal Grewal – American Humanitarian Citizenship. The “Soft” Power of Empire
- Bell Hooks – In Our Glory: Photography in Black Life
Articles to raise anti-racist children
- PBS’s Teaching Your Child About Black History Month
- Your Kids Aren’t Too Young to Talk About Race: Resource Roundup from Pretty Good
Safety advice
- How to Remove a Zip Tie
- How to deactivate a tear bomb (In Spanish) (looking for an English version to add too)
- Some BLM protesters are monitoring the police radio in NYC on Twitter
- Franz Fanon – Black Skin, White Masks