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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

Black Lives Matter

Support the movement to end state-sanctioned violence, liberate Black people, and end white supremacy.

Campaign Zero 

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.

Color of Change

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.

8 Can’t Wait

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.

Supermajority

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.

Reclaim the block

Minneapolis organization devoted to reallocating the city’s money away from the police department and toward community-led safety initiatives.

Black Visions Collective

A black, trans, and queer-led social justice organization and legal fund based in Minneapolis-St. Paul.

NAACP Legal Defense Fund

Support racial justice through advocacy, litigation, and education.

No New Jails NYC

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.

Know Your Rights Camp

An organization founded by Colin Kaepernick that provides education and training in black and brown communities.

Fair Fight

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.