Black Lives Matter.
Here is a non-comprehensive collection of resources for taking action and being in solidarity with Black folks.
Note: Because I live in North Carolina in the United States and am an Asian American, these resources will probably be impacted by that lens.
Resource Collections
Black Lives Matter Resource Archive
Open List of Black Lives Matter Ally Resources
5 Allyship Actions for Asians to Show Up for the Black Community Now
26 Ways to Be in the Struggle Beyond the Streets
12 Ways to Be a White Ally to Black People
How to Support BML without Making It about You
Examples of Racial Gaslighting
Non-Monetary Support Options
Non-Monetary Support Collection by Maria Camille
Places to Donate
Minnesota
North Carolina
Take Action Chapel Hill: The Anti-Racist Activist Fund
NC Community Bail Fund of Durham
Durham Freedom Fighter Bond Fund
Fayetteville Police Accountability Community Taskforce (PACT)
Alamance County Community Bail Fund
Greensboro Mutual Aid via DraShonta Morris Brinson
Winston-Salem / Forsyth County Bail Fund
Charlotte Bail Fund CashApp via Jamie Marsicano
Asheville Final Straw Anarchist Radio
Book Recommendations (Non-Fiction)
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson
Blood at the Root: A Racial Cleansing in America by Patrick Phillips
Motherhood So White by Nefertiti Austin
Faces at the Bottom of the Well: The Permanence of Racism by Derrick Bell
Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine
The Blood of Emmett Till by Timothy B. Tyson
How We Fight White Supremacy: A Field Guide to Black Resistance by Akiba Solomon and Kenrya Rankin
Jesus Land: A Memoir by Julia Scheeres
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X Kendi
Thick: And Other Essays by Tressie McMillan Cottom
The Autobiography of Malcolm X as Told to Alex Haley by Malcolm X and Alex Haley
The End of White World Supremacy: Four Speeches by Malcolm X
Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy by Heather Ann Thompson
Heavy: An American Memoir by Kiese Laymon
How We Fight for Our Lives: A Memoir by Saeed Jones
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson
Race Matters, 25th Anniversary by Cornel West
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot by Mikki Kendall
White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk about Racism by Robin Diangelo
Unapologetic: A Black, Queer, and Feminist Mandate for Radical Movements by Charlene Carruthers
Book Recommendations (Poetry & Fiction)
A Kind of Freedom by Margaret Wilkerson Sexton
The Revisioners by Margaret Wilkerson Sexton
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
The Nickel Boys (Winner 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction) by Colson Whitehead
The Tradition by Jericho Brown
We Want Our Bodies Back: Poems by Jessica Care Moore
An American Marriage by Tayari Jones
The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Bluebird, Bluebird by Attica Locke
The Broken Earth Trilogy: The Fifth Season, the Obelisk Gate, the Stone Sky by N. K. Jemisin
Kindred (Novel) by Octavia E. Butler
Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler
The Good Lord Bird by James McBride
Deacon King Kong by James McBride
Pro Bono Lawyers for Protesters
United States (general / compilation)
Video with list of Pro Bono Lawyers for Protesters
North Carolina
Jason Keith – JasonKeith@keithattorneys.com – 336-574-0368
Resources for Protesters
Protest Access: captions and transcripts for social justice content (a11y)
Books and Resources for Young People
Helping Kids Process Violence, Trauma, and Race in a World of Nonstop News
Books by Innosanto Nagara
The Wedding Portrait by Innosanto Nagara
Counting on Community by Innosanto Nagara
A is for Activist by Innosanto Nagara
M is for Movement by Innosanto Nagara
My Night in the Planetarium by Innosanto Nagara
Stonewall: A Building. an Uprising. a Revolution by Rob Sanders, illustrated by Jamey Christoph