Community DEI Resources
For resources specifically relating to where you can donate and support petitions for justice for George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Aubrey, and others please click here.
This list* was created to help our community connect to organizations and educational resources that support dismantling the systems of oppression that our country was founded on.
Join & Follow
Support the movement to end state-sanctioned violence, liberate Black people, and end white supremacy.
Has a comprehensive guide to policies that aim to correct broken windows policing, excessive force, racial profiling, for-profit policing, cash bail, and much more.
Support Color Of Change, the largest online racial justice organization in the country, and help fight to end the war on Black people in our country.
This organization identified 8 use-of-force policies that, if enacted by cities can reduce police violence by 72%. You can look up your city, see which of the 8 they've implemented, and contact your mayor to encourage action on the rest.
Membership-based organization that affirms and builds women’s power and serves as a one-stop shop for advocacy, community building, and electoral participation aimed at transforming our country and building an intergenerational, multiracial movement for women’s equity.
Minneapolis organization devoted to reallocating the city’s money away from the police department and toward community-led safety initiatives.
A black, trans, and queer-led social justice organization and legal fund based in Minneapolis-St. Paul.
Support racial justice through advocacy, litigation, and education.
Aims to keep the city from constructing new jails, and to instead divert funds that currently go toward the police and incarceration toward housing, ending homelessness, mental health, and other community support systems.
An organization founded by Colin Kaepernick that provides education and training in black and brown communities.
An organization founded by Stacey Abrams that aims to end voter suppression and equalize voting rights and access for fairer elections.
Read, Watch, Listen
& Educate
Articles
“Of Course There Are Protests. The State Is Failing Black People,” by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor for the New York Times
“The Death of George Floyd, In Context,” by Jelani Cobb of The New Yorker
“The Case for Reparations,” by Ta-Nehisi Coates for The Atlantic
“How to Make This Moment the Turning Point for Real Change,” by Barack Obama in Medium
1619 Project by Nikole Hannah-Jones for The New York Times
Books
How To Be An Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower by Brittany Cooper
White Fragility by Robin Diangelo
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
Waking Up White by Debby Irving
Biased by Dr. Jennifer Eberhardt
I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness by Austin Channing Brown
Watch
Just Mercy, a film based on civil rights lawyer Bryan Stevenson’s work on death row in Alabama
13th, a Netflix documentary exposing racial inequality within the criminal justice system
Malcom X, a film biographic epic film by Spike Lee about the life of the Black Nationalist Leader
Katie Couric on the history of Confederate statues in Nat Geo’s America Inside Out
Let It Fall, a documentary looking at racial tensions in Los Angeles and the 1992 riots over LAPD officers’ brutal assault on Rodney King
When They See Us, a Netflix miniseries from Ava DuVernay about the Central Park Five
I Am Not Your Negro, a documentary envisioning the book James Baldwin was never able to finish
Selma, a film that chronicles the marches of the Civil Rights Movement
Whose Streets?, a documentary about the uprising in Ferguson
If Beale Street Could Talk, a film from Barry Jenkins set in 1970’s Harlem following a young couple’s love story and their fight for justice
Becoming, a Netflix documentary following Michelle Obama on her book tour
Listen
Still Processing, a New York Times culture podcast with Jenna Wortham and Wesley Morrison
Seeing White, a Scene on the Radio podcast
Code Switch, an NPR podcast tackling race from all angles
Jemele Hill is Unbothered, a podcast with award-winning journalist Jemele Hill
Hear To Slay, “the black feminist podcast of your dreams,” with Roxane Gay and Tressie McMillan Cottom
Pod Save The People, organizer and activist DeRay Mckesson explores news, culture, social justice, and politics with analysis from fellow activists Brittany Packnett, Sam Sinyangwe, and writer Dr. Clint Smith III
*While building our list we sourced both from our internal community and also lists built by others. We are grateful for the input and groundwork laid by all.
We also want to give a special thank you to one of our amazing Core Team members, Alexei McAllister, for taking the time and initiative to build the How to Help doc earlier this week.