Black Lives Matter: Educational Resources to Watch, Read + Listen to

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Remember when we announced the re-launch of Whim and stated that moving forward, important conversations needed to be had? In light of recent, heartbreaking events, this is certainly one of them.

Like many, we too find ourselves without words to express such sorrow, but one thing is for certain: now is not the time to remain silent. That’s why we wanted to share a list of important resources, including books, websites, podcasts, documentaries, and more, to not only encourage education about racial hatred and injustice but to also spark vital conversations and inspire positive change - once and for all.

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Before we dive in, we’ll leave you with this touching poem from Morgan Harper-Nichols.

Empathy:

“Let me

hold the door for you.

I may have

never walked

in your shoes,

but I can see

your soles are worn,

your strength is torn

under the weight of a story

I have never lived before.

Let me hold the door for you.

After all you’ve walked through,

it’s the least I can do.”

Black Lives Matter: Educate yourself with the following important resources:

Reading List

• How To Be Anti-Racisit by Ibram X. Kendi

• An African American and Latinx History of the United States by Paul Ortiz

• Raising White Kids: Bringing Up Children in a Radically Unjust America by Jennifer Harvey

• Well-Read Black Girl by Glory Edim

• What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Blacker: A Memoir in Essays by Damon Young

• This Book is Anti-Racist: 20 Lessons on How to Wake Up, Take Action, and Do the Work by Tiffany Jewell

• Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You by Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi

• Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson

• Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo

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Articles

• For Our White Friends Desiring to Be Allies

• 75 Things White People Can Do for Racial Justice

• Teaching Your Child About Black History Month

• A Timeline of Events That Led to the 2020 ‘Fed Up’-rising

• How to Make this Moment the Turning Point for Real Change

• The Minneapolis Uprising in Context

• Reckoning with white supremacy: Five fundamentals for white folks

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Podcasts

• Fare of the Free Child

• Momentum: A Race Forward Podcast

• 1619 - The New York Times

• Code Switch: NPR

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TED Talks

• White People, Enough: A Look at Power and Control | Jaelyn Coates | TEDxCSU

• Let’s get to the root of racial injustice | Megan Ming Francis | TEDxRainier

• Not all Superheros wear capes-how you have the power to change the world | Nova Reid | TEDxFrankfurt

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Documentaries

• The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross

• Freedom Riders

• Eyes on the Prize

• The Black Power Mixtape

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Make your voice count by signing the following petitions

• Justice for Floyd

• Justice for Breonna Taylor

• Justice for Ahmaud Arbrey

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And finally, if you have the means, donate to these charities

• George Floyd Memorial Fund: gofundme.com/f/georgefloyd

• Minnesota Freedom Fund: minnesotafreedomfund.org

• National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP): naacp.org

• Black Visions Collective: blackvisionsmn.org

• Reclaim the Block: reclaimtheblock.org

• Campaign Zero: joincampaignzero.org

Of course, this list is in now way exhaustive, so if you know of other helpful resources which we should also include, please reach out in the comments below.

“I understand that I will never understand. However, I stand.”