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Focus Areas: Allyship & Activism
Color of Change is a progressive nonprofit civil rights advocacy organization in the United States. It was formed in 2005 in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in order to use online resources to strengthen the political voice of African Americans.
Topics: Organizing
Isabel Wilkerson
Focus Areas: Identity & Experience
From 1915 to 1970, this exodus of almost six million people changed the face of America. Wilkerson compares this epic migration to the migrations of other peoples in history. She interviewed more than a thousand people, and gained access to new data and official records, to write this definitive and vividly dramatic account of how these American journeys unfolded, altering our cities, our country, and ourselves.
Topics: Immigration & Refugees
Focus Areas: Systemic & Institutional Racism
The Luke 4:18 Bail Fund, overseen and managed by Faith in Texas, aims to draw attention to the inequities within the money bail system and engage community members – especially those directly impacted – in the processes to address those injustices.
Topics: Bail
Tema Okun
Focus Areas: Allyship & Activism, Allyship & Activism, Systemic & Institutional Racism, Power & Privilege
The purpose of this article is to help white people understand our identity as white people within a system which assumes our superiority and, at the same time, to challenge that assumption and replace it with a positive, anti-racist identity. We believe that it is absolutely critical to accept our identity as white people within a white group and to understand that this association affects the quality of our lives politically, economically, socially.
Topics: Allyship, White Allyship, White Supremacy
Focus Areas: Identity & Experience, Systemic & Institutional Racism
People held in immigration detention can often be released to their home communities as they await trial—but only if they can afford to pay bond (or "bail"). Our organization pays bond for those who cannot otherwise afford it. Once a case is resolved, the bond money is returned (with interest), so we can use it to bail out another person.
Topics: Immigration & Refugees, Bail
Howard Freidman PC
Focus Areas: Systemic & Institutional Racism, Allyship & Activism, Systemic & Institutional Racism
Every person has the constitutional right not to be subjected to unreasonable or excessive force by law enforcement officers. However, a police officer has the right to use force that is objectively reasonable to make an arrest or that is necessary for self-defense. Understand when officers exceed their authority to use force.
Topics: Civil Rights, Law & Policy
Victoria Estrada and Daniel Alarcón, Radio Ambulante
Focus Areas: Identity & Experience
The podcast description reads: "Maps show two cities; up close, it’s a little more complicated. The border between Ciudad Juárez in Mexico, and El Paso in the US, is a place of cultural and linguistic fluidity, a place of exchange and transit. But the attack at a Walmart in El Paso on August 3rd, 2019 put all of that at risk. You can read the Spanish transcript of the episode or an English translation."
Topics: Racial Identity
James Baldwin
Focus Areas: Systemic & Institutional Racism, Allyship & Activism, Bias & Prejudice, Identity & Experience, Systemic & Institutional Racism, Power & Privilege, Identity & Experience
A national bestseller when it first appeared in 1963, The Fire Next Time galvanized the nation and gave passionate voice to the emerging civil rights movement. At once a powerful evocation of James Baldwin's early life in Harlem and a disturbing examination of the consequences of racial injustice, the book is an intensely personal and provocative document. It consists of two "letters, " written on the occasion of the centennial of the Emancipation Proclamation, that exhort Americans, both black and white, to attack the terrible legacy of racism.
Topics: Civil Rights, Prejudice, Racial Trauma, History
Robin DiAngelo
Focus Areas: Power & Privilege, Bias & Prejudice, Identity & Experience
Referring to the defensive moves that white people make when challenged racially, white fragility is characterized by emotions such as anger, fear, and guilt, and by behaviors including argumentation and silence. These behaviors, in turn, function to reinstate white racial equilibrium and prevent any meaningful cross-racial dialogue.
Topics: Privilege, Bias, Racial Identity
Focus Areas: Allyship & Activism
In solidarity with protesters in Minneapolis and other American cities, Lebanese technologists, protesters, and activists put together this document as a guide for escalating protests and documenting police abuse. We recognize that our experiences and lived realities are different, but in the same way that we’ve found solidarity with Hong Kong and Chile protesters, we wanted to extend ours to others.
Topics: Protest
Angela Davis (ed.)
Focus Areas: Systemic & Institutional Racism, Systemic & Institutional Racism
Since the book was written, the carceral system in the US has seen unprecedented growth, with more of America's black population behind bars than ever before. The scathing analysis of the role of prison and the policing of black populations offered by Davis and her comrades in this astonishing volume remains as pertinent today as the day it was first published.
Topics: Mass Incarceration & Prisons, Criminal Justice
Focus Areas: Identity & Experience, Systemic & Institutional Racism
What is an immigration bond? An immigration bond is the amount of money set by the Department of Homeland Security or an immigration judge as a condition to release a person from detention for an immigration court hearing at a later date. To set bond, a judge has to determine that the person is not a threat to the public and that they will be appearing at their future court hearings. Unfortunately, our immigration system allows for immigration judges to issue bonds in the minimum amount of $1,500 and often well over $20,000 in a very inconsistent and arbitrary manner. For our immigrant families, that means that although an immigration judge has determined that they can be released, they are nevertheless locked in detention until their families are able to raise the bond fund. There are highly predatory bond companies that require high initial payments with high interest and require that the person posting bond is a US citizen or legal permanent resident, and therefore, are unavailable to some immigrant families.
Topics: Immigration & Refugees, Bail
Focus Areas: Allyship & Activism
The Texas Organizing Project (TOP), founded in 2009, organizes Black and Latino communities in Dallas, Harris and Bexar counties with the goal of transforming Texas into a state where working people of color have the power and representation they deserve.
Topics: Organizing
Ibram X. Kendi
Focus Areas: Systemic & Institutional Racism, Power & Privilege, Identity & Experience, Systemic & Institutional Racism, Power & Privilege
In this deeply researched and fast-moving narrative, Kendi chronicles the entire story of anti-black racist ideas and their staggering power over the course of American history. He uses the life stories of five major American intellectuals to drive this history: Puritan minister Cotton Mather, Thomas Jefferson, abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison, W.E.B. Du Bois, and legendary activist Angela Davis.
Topics: History, White Supremacy
Courtney Ariel
Focus Areas: Allyship & Activism
Author's Note: I'm writing this in hopes that it can be used to lighten the load of marginalized folks, keeping in mind that not all marginalized people want to engage in the ally conversation, and that is perfect as well. For those who do, my prayer is that when someone asks you the question, “how can I be a stronger ally?” you might choose to save your breath/energy and send this in its place.
Topics: White Allyship
