ADVOCACY RESOURCES
Provided by Rabia Castellano MSW
- Anti-Racism Resources (Books, Podcasts, Articles, Videos, Film, Organizations)
- Filling our Cups: 4 Ways People of Color Can Foster Mental Health and Practice Restorative Healing (Medium)
- 75 Things White People Can Do for Racial Justice (Medium)
- Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice
- Louis D. Brown Peace Institute
- Trinity Boston Connects
- Black Lives Matter
- Mel King Institute
- Anti-Racism Project
- National Museum of African American History’s “Talking about Race” Web Portal
- Equal Justice Initiative
- Campaign Zero
- Minnesota Freedom Fund
- Black Visions (MN)
- Black Mental Health Matters: What Nurses Need to Know About Chronic Stressors of Persons of Color (Article)
- Anti-Racism Self-Assessment Training and Resources (national Juvenile Justice Network)
- Caring for Mental Health in Communities of Color During COVID-19 (Robert Wood Johnson Foundation)
- TIP 59: Improving Cultural Competence (SAMHSA)
- Tools for Addressing Chapter Conflict (Black Lives Matter)
- 11 Things You Can Do To Help Black Lives Matter End Police Violence (Teen Vogue)
- Implicit Bias (Racial Equity Tools)
- Anti-Racist Alliance
- Showing Up For Racial Justice
MENTAL HEALTH RESOURCES
- Self-Care Tips for Black People Who Are Struggling With This Very Painful Week (Vice)
- Healing in Action: A Toolkit for Black Lives Matter Healing Justice & Direct Action (Black Lives Matter)
- The Safe Place (App)
- Black Mental Health Matters
- Therapy for Black Girls
- Black Mental Health Alliance
- Mind My Melanin (Blog)
- 7 Virtual Mental Health Resources Supportive Black People Right Now (Bon Appetit)
- 5 Mental, Physical, & Spiritual Health Resources Every Black Woman Should Know About In This New Normal (Essence)
- How To Find A Black Therapist Virtually (Essence)
PSYCHOEDUCATION AND PRACTICE RESOURCES
- African American Mental Health (NAMI)
- African American Communities and Mental Health (Let’s Erase the Stigma)
- Black & African American Communities and Mental Health (Mental Health America)
- Stigma Regarding Mental Illness among People of Color (The National Council for Behavioral Health)
- Surviving the Coronavirus While Black: Pandemic’s Heavy Toll on African American Mental Health
- Black Lives Matter: Eliminating Racial Inequity in the Criminal Justice System (Sentencing Project)
- Institutional Racism & The Social Work Profession: A Call To Action (NASW)
TED TALKS
- How to overcome our bias? Walk boldly toward them (Verna Myers)
- Implicit Bias: How it effects us and how we push through (Melanie Funchess)
- Immaculate Perception (Jerry Kang)
- Race is a fiction. Racism is not. (Francys Johnson)
- An interview with the founders of Black Lives Matter (Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors, & Opal Tometi)
- The urgency of intersectionality (Kimberle Crenshaw)
- How we can make racism a solvable problem – and improve policing (Phillip Atiba Goff)
- Racism has a cost for everyone (Heather McGhee)
PROTEST RESOURCES
- Know Your Protesters’ Rights
- How to Protest Safely in the Age of Surveillance
- How to More Safely Protest in a Pandemic
Additional Anti Racism and Advocacy Resources (Community donated)
| ARTICLES |
| ON WHITENESS |
| 75 Things White People Can Do for Racial Justice | Corinne Shutack | |||
| How White Womens’ Tears Threaten Black Existence | Cameron Glover | |||
| When Feminism is White Supremacy in Heels | Rachel Cargle | |||
| The Souls of White Folk | Stephen Jamal Leeper | |||
| What do we do with white folks? | Anthony James William | |||
| White People Have No Culture | Lorena Wallace | |||
| White Fragility | The Conscious Kid | |||
| Trump Defends White-Nationalist Protesters: ‘Some Very FinePeople on Both Sides’ | Rosie Gray | |||
| Discourse & Debate: Is performative activism inherently bad? | Kayla Abrams | |||
| Amy Cooper, White Spaces, and the Political Projection of Whiteness | Wear Your Voice Magazine | |||
| The White Space | Elijah Anderson | |||
| ANTI RACISM RESOURCES FOR TEACHERS | ||||
| Anti-Racist Lesson Plans & Resources for Educators | Compilation | |||
| Here Are 21 Free Resources for Teaching Social Justice in theClassroom | Megan DeMatteo | |||
| Children’s books that discuss race and racism | @wanderingbritt_ (twitter thread) |
| PODCASTS / EPISODES (Spotify links) | ||||||||
| Why The Coronavirus Is Hitting Black Communities Hardest | NPR Code Switch | |||||||
| Dismantling White Fragility“…DiAngelo calls on white people to let go of guilt and to pick upresponsibility. When you break free from the urge to defend yourselfand start doing the inner work, it can be fantastically liberating…” | The goop Podcast | Disregard that it’s from Goop; No Gwyneth Paltrow Timestamps1:15-30:40, 33:40-62:02 | ||||||
| Racism Cont’d | What a Day | |||||||
| About Race with Renni Eddo-Lodge | ||||||||
| Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race | Renni Eddo-Lodge | audio version of aforementioned article | ||||||
| “The Negro In American Culture” 1961 | James Baldwin, Langston Hughes, LorraineHansberry, Emile Capouya, Alfred Kazin | Youtube link to audio | ||||||
| A Weekend of Pain and Protest (June 1, 2020) | The Daily by The New York Times | |||||||
| The Systems That Protect the Police (June 2, 2020) | The Daily by The New York Times |
| BOOKS | ||||||||
| The Fire Next Time | James Baldwin | |||||||
| Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States | Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz | I just read this and thought it wasan amazing historical perspective | ||||||
| How to be an Antiracist | Ibram X. Kendi | |||||||
| Pushout: the Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools | Monique W. Morris | |||||||
| From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation | Keeanga Yamahtta-Taylor | |||||||
| As Black as Resistance | Zoe Samudzi | |||||||
| When Affirmative Action was White | Ira Katznelson | This was a great historical perspective! | ||||||
| So You Want to Talk About Race | Ijeoma Oluo | |||||||
| White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk AboutRacism | Robin DiAngelo | |||||||
| The New Jim Crow | Michelle Alexander | |||||||
| Freedom is a Constant Struggle | Angela Davis | |||||||
| Women, Race and Class | Angela Davis | |||||||
| Sister Outsider | Audre Lorde | |||||||
| Your Silence Will Not Protect You | Audre Lorde | |||||||
| Beloved | Toni Morrison | |||||||
| The Bluest Eye | Toni Morrison | |||||||
| Song of Soloman | Toni Morrison | |||||||
| Who do you serve? Who do you protect? | Alicia Garza, Joe Macaré, Maya Schenwar, and Alana Yu-lan Price | |||||||
| Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex | Eric A. Stanley | |||||||
| The Autobiography of Malcolm X | Alex Haley and Malcolm X | |||||||
| Race Matters | Cornel West | |||||||
| Noname Book Club (monthly) | Noname | |||||||
| How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective | Keeanga Yamahtta-Taylor | |||||||
| Crunk Feminist Collection | Brittney Cooper, Susana M. Morris and Robin M. Boylorn, Crunk Feminist Collective | |||||||
| They Can’t Kill Us All | Wesley Lowry | |||||||
| Racism Without Racists | Eduardo Bonilla-Silva | |||||||
| This Bridge Called My Back | Compilation, edited by Cherrie Moraga and Gloria Anzaldua | |||||||
| I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings | Maya Angelou | |||||||
| Redefining Realness | Janet Mock | |||||||
| Their Eyes Were Watching God | Zora Neale Hurston | |||||||
| The Warmth of Other Suns | Isabel Wilkerson | |||||||
| Black Against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party | Joshua Bloom | |||||||
| Just Mercy | Bryan Stevenson |
| *** PROTEST SAFETY RESOURCES *** | ||||||||
| Police Scanner Map | NY, LA, ATX, Bay Area, Chicago | |||||||
| Citizen App: Connect and Stay Safe (download link) | ||||||||
| Traffic Cameras | Seattle, Utah, Georgia, NYC | |||||||
| NYCDOT – Real Time Traffic Information | NYC |
