Donate to organizations fighting racial injustice

• ACLU Foundation (American Civil Liberties Union Foundation, Inc.)

• Equal Justice Initiative

• Minnesota Freedom Fund, Inc.

• National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)

• Southern Poverty Law Center, Inc.

Educate yourselves and others

Books:

If you are interested in purchasing books, we encourage you to consider buying from Black-owned bookstores as a way to support the Black community.

• Check Your Privilege, Myisha Hill

• How to Be An Antiracist, Ibram X. Kendi

• So You Want to Talk About Race, Ijeoma Oluo

• The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century, Grace Lee Boggs

• White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism, Robin Diangelo, PhD

Articles:

• 75 Things White People Can Do for Racial Justice, Corinne Shutack

• Do Better: From Empathy to Action, Andrea G. Tatum, CAPM

• How to Make this Moment the Turning Point for Change, Barack Obama

• How to Manage Your Team in Times of Political Trauma, Michelle Kim

• How to talk to your children about protests and racism, Sandee LaMotte

• Maintaining professionalism while processing pain, Shenequa Golding

• Racism and Police Brutality in America, Cassandra Chaney & Ray V. Robertson

• The Case for Reparations, Ta-Nehisi Coates

• What is White Privilege, Really? Cory Collins

Podcasts:

• 1619 — a podcast by The New York Times audio series, hosted by Nikole Hannah-Jones, that examines the long shadow of American slavery

• Code Switch — Hosted by journalists of color, our podcast tackles the subject of race head-on. We explore how it impacts every part of society, from politics and pop culture to history, sports, and everything in between

• About Race —  Anna Holmes, Baratunde Thurston, Raquel Cepeda, and Tanner Colby host a lively multiracial, interracial conversation about the ways we can’t talk, don’t talk, would rather not talk, but intermittently, fitfully, embarrassingly do talk about culture, identity, politics, power, and privilege in our pre-post-yet-still-very-racial America

Videos:

• George Floyd, Minneapolis Protests, Ahmaud Arbery & Amy Cooper | The Daily Show with Trevor Noah

• Ibram X. Kendi on How to Be an Antiracist at UC Berkeley

• Jane Elliot makes this girl cry when speaking about racial discrimination

• The First Time I Realized I Was Black

Other Resources:

• Ally Assessment — self-assessment and commitment to allyship card, developed by Leticia Vaca, LCSW

• BLM Resources — a public-facing, community-edited resource list

• The Guide to Allyship — an evolving, open-source guide to help you become a more thoughtful and effective ally