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Start Here! Resources for All Forms of Racism & Oppression

10 Reasons You Should Support Black Lives Matter
A must read. DNA weekly.
Anti-Racist Resource Guide
Guides on all these Topics: Anti-Asian Racism; Black Trans Lives; Breonna Taylor; Buy; Children & Parents; Confederate Monuments; Crime & Policing; Education; For Black Women & Girls; Get Involved; Implicit Bias; Listen; Organizations; Protests; Racism, Defined; Read; Start Conversations; Vote; Watch
Anti-Oppression LibGuide
New York Institute of Technology. Anti-Oppression Resources; Anti-Racism Resources; Anti-Islamophobia; LGBTQIA Resources; Anti-Ableism Resources; Feminist Resources; Resources for DACAmented Students; Allyship-Take Action; Identify Our Biases; Self-Care Resources
Talking About Race
"Talking about race, although hard, is necessary. We are here to provide tools and guidance to empower your journey and inspire conversation." National Museum of African American History & Culture.
Learning for Justice: Race & Ethnicity
Cultivate positive identity formation, encourage students to confront racial and ethnic injustice, and prepare them to live and work together in a diverse world. Our resources can help you facilitate discussions about race and guide students through lessons on white privilege, economic inequality, mass incarceration, the complexities of identity and more.
Learning for Justice: Class
Build a deeper understanding of wealth, poverty and systems of economic class. Empower students to understand income and resource disparity. Empower yourself to recognize the unique assets of low-income students and to challenge school practices and policies that favor wealthier students.
Teaching for Change: Educator Resources
By drawing direct connections to real world issues, Teaching for Change encourages teachers and students to question and re-think the world inside and outside their classrooms, build a more equitable, multicultural society, and become active global citizens. Our professional development, publications, and parent organizing programs serve teachers, other school staff, and parents. Our main focus is national and we have dedicated programs in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area.
Understanding Prejudice
Resources, Video, Activities, Links, Assessments
Ensuring Libraries Are Diverse, Equitable, and Inclusive
"...outline the characteristics of diverse communities, the ethical standards set by libraries and librarians, and the services offered to communities of all different sections that directly address those needs.

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African American History-Emancipation to the Present: A Free Course from Yale University
OpenCulture. This course, African American History: Emancipation to the Present, was presented by Jonathan Holloway, when he was Professor of History at Yale University. He is now the Provost at Northwestern.
African-American History: Modern Freedom Struggle (A Free Course from Stanford)
Open Culture. Taught by historian Clayborne Carson, the editor of the papers of Martin Luther King, Jr., this Stanford University course–entitled African-American History: Modern Freedom Struggle–provides an introduction to African-American history, “with a particular emphasis on the political thought and protest movements of the period after 1930.” It focuses “on selected individuals who have shaped and been shaped by modern African-American struggles for freedom and justice.”

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Nationwide Protests

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10 Reasons You Should Support Black Lives Matter
A must read. DNA weekly.
Together, You Can Redeem the Soul of Our Nation
NY TImes. John L. Lewis "Though I am gone, I urge you to answer the highest calling of your heart and stand up for what you truly believe."
Institutionalized Racism: A Syllabus How can we help students understand George Floyd’s Death in the Context of Institutionalized Racism?
Jstor Daily. Excellent selection of historical events
Protest Options: A List of Links to Petitions, Donations, Resources and Education
GoodBlackNews. INCREDIBLE resource for action now as well as important historical speeches, essays, interviews.

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The Ballot or the Bullet by Malcolm X
Martin and Malcolm by James Baldwin
Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Davis
Assata Shakur’s Autobiography
The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House by Audre Lorde
No Place for Self-Pity, No Room for Fear By Toni Morrison
Why I Won’t Vote by W. E. B. DuBois
The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
Political Prisoners, Prisons, and Black Liberation by Angela Davis
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein
Black History Month Google Drive File:
Google Drive Created by Black transperson, Charles Preston with videos, interviews, more! https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0Bz011IF2Pu9TUWIxVWxybGJ1Ync

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