Healing Racism and Ways to be of Service to the Black Community In This Time of Need

This list was generated by reflecting on my own experience and through meaningful conversations with colleagues of mine, both black and white leaders. It offers important steps people can take right now, both for DIRECT ACTION to support the black community and to make sure the changes that need to happen happen. It also offers resources for educating and doing the inner work required in this time. This is an ongoing, living list that will continue to grow. If you know of a resource that should be on this list, feel free to reach out and let us know. We would be grateful.

Direct Action: Ways to Directly Support the Black Community, Economy, & Black Businesses

Black Lives Matter

Emergent Strategy Idea Institute was co-founded in 2015 by Adrienne Maree Brown and Octavia Butler, a black science fiction writer. Inspired by Octavia Butler’s work, brown founded the institute after observing an increased need for emergence and complex sciences in movement facilitation, and a space to play and learn. Over the years, the organization has rapidly grown to include a blossoming team of facilitators, staff, and an advisory board.

National Urban League

Sponsor someone's training fee for Angel Acosta's Work: Contemplating 400 Years of Inequality Facilitator Training. These trainings support community members and practitioners depend their ability to navigate and facilitate conversations on racial and structural violence through a contemplative lens.

The Jubilee Network - Led by Konda Mason and others, this initiative brings together an intergenerational community to envision and bring about a new economy and society.

Equal Justice Initiative

Color of Change

Movement for Black Lives

United We Dream

Civilrights.org

Showing Up For Racial Justice

Because of Them We Can

Grassroots Law Project

Black LEADERS OF CHANGE DOING INCREDIBLE WORK WHO YOU CAN SUPPORT TO THUS SUPPORT THE LARGER MOVEMENT:

ANGEL ACOSTA

Zelle: angelacosta16@gmail.com

Venmo: DrAngel-Acosta-1

REV. ANGEL
Venmo: Revangel

Paypal: https://www.paypal.me/angelkyodowilliams

BLACK Dharma Teachers Whose Work You Will Want to Know:

Venerable Pannavati, Lama Rod Owens, Vimalasara Mason, Kaira Jewel-Lingo, Konda Mason, Alisa Dennis, Joanna Harper, Rev. angel Kyodo Williams, Ruth King, Noliwe Alexander, Leslie Booker, Amana Johnson, and Kate Johnson, Also, please check out the work of scholar, activist, and mindfulness practitioner Angel Acosta.

EDUCATION RESOURCES:

Articles: to Educate Yourself about the History of White Supremacy in the United States:

A Timeline of Events That Led to the 2020 ‘Fed Up’ Uprising - The Root

Books for Educating Yourself on Healing Racism:

Radical Dharma: Talking Race, Love, and Liberation by Rev. angel Kyodo Williams, Lama Rod Owens, Jasmine Syedullah Ph.D.

White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo

The Inner Work of Racial Justice by Rhonda V. Magee

Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

Love and Rage: The Path of Liberation through Anger, by Lama Rod Owens

Austin Channing Brown’s I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness

Shaun King’s Make Change: How to Fight Injustice, Dismantle Systemic Oppression, and Own Our Future

My Grandmother’s Hands by Resmae Menakem

Programs/Trainings:

Ruth King's Racial Affinity Group Development Program

White Awake

Angel Acosta's Contemplating 400 Years of Inequality Facilitator Training

Rachel Cargle’s Lecture Series and other Offerings

RESOURCES FOR PARENTS & CHILDREN

CNN/Sesame Street racism town hall

The Conscious Kid

Resourced from Bioneers:

Incredible Voices to Follow

As Black, Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC) share their lived experiences of oppression and discrimination — as well as their wisdom for moving forward to dismantle the systems that perpetuate it — the value of listening to these voices right now cannot be understated. Here are a few of so many inspiring BIPOC organizers and leaders that you should be paying attention to.

Patrisse Cullors, best known for being a co-founding partner of the Black Lives Matter movement, also wrote the New York Times best-selling book, “When They Call You a Terrorist.”
Kimberlé Crenshaw is the executive director of the African American Policy forum and the host of their podcast, Intersectionality Matters!
The Audre Lorde Project is a community organizing center for LGBT and gender non-conforming people of color.
Code Switch is an NPR podcast hosted by a multi-racial, multi-generational team of journalists. Their episodes span overlapping themes of race, ethnicity and culture, how they play out in our lives and communities, and how all of this is shifting.
PolicyLink is a national research and action institute advancing racial and economic equity by Lifting Up What Works®.
Dr. Rupa Marya is a doctor, professor and leading activist whose work connects medicine with social justice.
The Othering & Belonging Institute at UC Berkeley, directed by professor john a. powell, advances research, policy, & communications in order to realize a world where all belong.
Anti-Racist Research Policy Center convenes varied specialists to figure out novel and practical ways to understand, explain, and solve seemingly intractable problems of racial inequity and injustice.
The Southern Poverty Law Center, founded in 1971, combats hate, intolerance, and discrimination through education and litigation.
Repairers of the Breach is a nonprofit organization that seeks to build a moral agenda rooted in a framework that uplifts our deepest moral and constitutional values to redeem the heart and soul of our country.
Color of Change is an online racial justice organization that designs campaigns powerful enough to end practices that unfairly hold Black people back, & champion solutions that move us all forward.
Maya Wiley is a legal analyst for NBC News and MSNBC, as well as a University professor at the New School in NYC.
Dream Corps closes prison doors and opens doors of opportunity. This nonprofit organization brings people together across racial, social, and partisan lines to create a future with freedom and dignity for all.
White Awake is a network of people combatting white supremacy by focusing on educational resources and spiritual practices designed to engage people who’ve been socially categorized as “white” in the creation of a just and sustainable society.
Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ) is a national network of groups and individuals organizing white people for racial justice.

How to Support the Protesters Demanding Justice for George Floyd

This Teen Vogue article shares important resources — such as bail funds and organizations to know about — for helping protesters in need, along with further tools for getting involved and making your voice heard.