Black Lives matter RESOURCES

The Tishman Center stands in solidarity with Black people in the US and abroad along with allies protesting to end police brutality and systemic racism. We strongly decounce the federal response to meet peaceful protests with violence instead of understanding. These issues are directly connected to the environmental, climate, and Covid 19 crises. Below are some ways to support the people affected by state violence and systemic racism. Please let us know if you would like to add to this list at tedc@newschool.edu

Trans rights resources

• Emergency Release Fund

• Black-Led LGBTQ Organizations: SNaPCo, Black AIDS Institute, Trans Cultural District, LGBTQ+ Freedom Fund, House of GG, Trans Justice Funding Project, The Okra Project, Youth Breakout

Action Docs:

• Changing Womxn Collective

• Resources for Accountability and Actions for Black Lives

• Natl Resources

• Black Lives Matter Ways to Help

• Anti-Racism Resources for White People:

• 26 Ways to Be in the Struggle Beyond the Streets:

donate

• Bail Funds

• Reclaim the Block Donation List

• Bail Funds by State

• Emergency Release Fund

• Official George Floyd Memorial Fund

• I Run with Maud

• Justice for Breonna Taylor Fund

Petitions:

• #DefundThePolice 

• Justice for Big Floyd

• Justice for George Floyd

• Justice for Tony McDade 

• I Run With Maud Petition

• Justice for Breonna Taylor 

• Defund the Minneapolis Police Department

• Reclaim the Block Petition

Black Business Support:

• Black-Owned Brooklyn

• Apps for finding Black-Owned businesses to support

• The Largest Online Marketplace for Black Owned Businesses

• Black-owned bookstores

• Five Fifths

Voting Information

• Polling Place/Locator

• Vote in local elections

• Primary Dates (Chronological and Alphabetical)

• Request Absentee Ballot

• Fill out 2020 Census 

Reading/

Media List:

• Books:

  • Anti-Racism Syllabus

  • “When Ivory Towers Were Black” by Sharon Egretta Sutton

  • “Their Eyes were Watching God” by Zora Neale Hurston

  • “Heavy: An American Memoir” by Kiese Laymon

  • “How We Fight White Supremacy” by Akiba Solomon 

  • “How to be An Antiracist” by Ibram X. Kendi

  • “Black Feminist Thought” by Patricia Hill Collins

  • “Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower” by Dr. Brittney Cooper

  • “Heavy: An American Memoir” by Kiese Laymon

  • “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” by Maya Angelou

  • “Just Mercy” by Bryan Stevenson

  • “Me and White Supremacy” by Layla F. Saad

  • “Raising Our Hands” by Jenna Arnold

  • “Redefining Realness” by Janet Mock 

  • “Sister Outsider” by Audre Lorde

  • “So You Want to Talk About Race” by Ijeoma Oluo

  • “The Bluest Eye” by Toni Morrison

  • “The Fire Next Time” by James Baldwin

  • “The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness” by Michelle Alexander

  • “The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century” by Grace Lee Boggs

  • “The Warmth of Other Suns” by Isabel Wilkerson

  • “This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color” by Cherríe Moraga

  • “When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America” by Ira Katznelson

  • “White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism” by Robin DiAngelo, PhD

• Podcasts: 

  • 1619 (New York Times)

  • Uncivil

  • Still Processing

  • The Read

  • About Race

  • Code Switch (NPR)

  • Intersectionality Matters! hosted by Kimberlé Crenshaw

  • Momentum: A Race Forward Podcast

  • Pod For The Cause (from The Leadership Conference on Civil & Human Rights)

  • Pod Save the People (Crooked Media)

  • Seeing White