Anti-Racism Resources for White People

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What a friggin week. We’re struggling to find words.

But honestly, nobody needs more words from us, and how we’re feeling about the horrific acts of racism that seem to be amplifying the last few months matters none. What DOES matter is what we can do about it going forward and how to do our part to stop racism from spreading, especially to our children and the next generation. It’s a scary, heartbreaking, and devastating time, and we can’t imagine what the family and friends of those who’s lives were taken must be feeling. Anger. Rage. Pain. Sadness. If we feel just a fraction of those feelings right now, their pain must be insurmountable.

We’ve seen many different posts this week from people wanting justice for George Floyd and Ahmaud Arbery and Breonna Taylor and Christian Cooper, among others, and what we can all do to help. It was a reminder of how a nation can come together to fight back and also, how social media can be used for good. It was also a reminder of just how messed up we are as a country and how much work needs to be done, because racism runs deep in America and it is going to take every single one of us to make it stop. But it’s not enough to repost and share, we have to take action and make things happen. We need to use our rage to shift things so that these senseless tragedies don’t keep happening. But how?

We came across this document on Instagram shared by our friend Kyle and found it incredibly insightful and helpful. It’s called Anti-Racism Resources for White People and it was compiled by Sarah Sophie Flicker & Alyssa Klein in May of 2020, and they encourage people to “feel free to circulate this document on social media”.

We’re sharing the document in full below (copied and pasted from the site), including articles to read, podcasts to listen to, movies to watch, organizations to follow and support, and other resources we should all consume. This is so incredibly helpful and is just another way we can all do our part to help make this world a safer place for all.

Resources for white parents to raise anti-racist children:

Articles to read:

Videos to watch:

Podcasts to subscribe to:

Books to read:

Films and TV series to watch:

  • 13th (Ava DuVernay) — Netflix

  • American Son (Kenny Leon) — Netflix

  • Black Power Mixtape: 1967-1975 — Available to rent

  • Clemency (Chinonye Chukwu) — Available to rent

  • Dear White People (Justin Simien) — Netflix

  • Fruitvale Station (Ryan Coogler) — Available to rent

  • I Am Not Your Negro (James Baldwin doc) — Available to rent or on Kanopy

  • If Beale Street Could Talk (Barry Jenkins) — Hulu

  • Just Mercy (Destin Daniel Cretton) — Available to rent

  • King In The Wilderness  — HBO

  • See You Yesterday (Stefon Bristol) — Netflix

  • Selma (Ava DuVernay) — Available to rent

  • The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution — Available to rent

  • The Hate U Give (George Tillman Jr.) — Hulu with Cinemax

  • When They See Us (Ava DuVernay) — Netflix

Organizations to follow on social media:

More anti-racism resources to check out:

(photo by Brittainy Newman for the New York Times)

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