Donations, Petitions, and Tools for Education: A Curated Collection of Anti-Racism Resources
WORKING NOT WORKING
The WNW team is currently huddling on next steps to help our company, community, and the creative industry be more proactive in combatting racial injustice. This means planning and executing initiatives to keep ourselves and the companies that we partner with accountable to the promises that we’re all making right now. Highlighting black creatives and helping companies modify their hiring processes to be more representative is just the start.
Below is our message to the WNW community and creative industry, followed by a great starting point if you don’t know what to sign, what to read, what to listen to, and what to do. It’s hard to know where to start. But where you start doesn’t matter. What matters is that you do.
Places to Donate
Black Lives Matter - We appreciate your support of the movement and our ongoing fight to end state-sanctioned violence, liberate Black people, and end white supremacy forever.
Black Trans Travel Fund - The Black Trans Travel Fund is a mutual-aid fund developed for the purpose of providing Black transgender women with the financial resources necessary for them to be able to access their self-determined safest alternatives to travel.
Know Your Rights Camp - “Our mission is to advance the liberation and well-being of Black and Brown communities through education, self-empowerment, mass-mobilization and the creation of new systems that elevate the next generation of change leaders.”
Innocence Project - “We exonerate the innocent through DNA testing and reform the criminal justice system to prevent future injustice.”
The National Bail Fund Network - A directory of community bail funds, which now includes a state-by-state list of June 2020 protest bail funds.
Campaign Zero - Data, data, data. A comprehensive platform of research-based policy solutions to end police brutality in America. “Over 1,000 people are killed by police every year in America. We are calling on local, state, and federal lawmakers to take immediate action to adopt data-driven policy solutions to end this violence and hold police accountable.”
The Bail Project - The Bail Project™ National Revolving Bail Fund is a critical tool to prevent incarceration and combat racial and economic disparities in the bail system.
NAACP Legal Defense Fund - “We’re counting on your help to advance LDF’s efforts to protect voting rights, reform our criminal justice system, achieve education equity, and ensure economic justice for all.”
The Official George Floyd Memorial Fund
I Run with Maud - “This fundraiser was designed to assist Ahmaud's mother; Ms. Wanda Cooper-Jones and her immediate family with financial support during this extreme difficult time and in their struggle for justice for the murder of Ahmaud Marquez Arbery.”
The Loveland Foundation - “With therapy sessions in the U.S. typically costing anywhere from $60 - $250-- even with insurance, the prevalent and ingrained stigma surrounding mental health in many communities, and the fact that the vast majority of therapists in this country are white, it is often difficult for Black women and girls to access therapy when they need it. We wanted to change that.”
Petitions to Sign
Tips for Demonstrating
Knowing Your Rights while protesting - The ACLU
What You Need to Know While Protesting - The Legal Aid Society
Know Your Rights: Filming the Police - VICE
Navigate Facial Recognition Technology - Instagram post with tips
Required Reading & Further Action
Anti-Racism Resources - An incredibly comprehensive list of videos to watch, articles to read, and organizations to follow on social media. It also includes content for raising anti-racist children,
75 Things White People Can Do for Racial Justice
Black Lives Matter Resources - “Ways You Can Help. When You’re Done: Educate Yourself. This Doesn’t Go Away Once The Topic Isn’t ‘Trending.’”
Why You Need to Stop Saying “All Lives Matter”
Black and Asian-American Feminist Solidarities: A Reading List
Dear White Women, How to be an Ally - A letter reminding modern white feminists of their relationship with black women throughout history.
Employer Letter of Accountability - A template for direct and intentional communication with your employers.
Anti-Racism Resources from Rachel Ricketts - “This is my carefully curated list of anti-racism + racial justice minded resources to help all hue-mans in the quest to dismantle racist patriarchy. Reading is a helpful place to begin but the best way to address racial justice is by doing the inner work. Check out my Spiritual Activism webinars to get started.”
Organizations to Follow on Social
An Antiracist Reading List from Ibram X. Kendi
Ibram X. Kendi, a professor and director of the Antiracist Research & Policy Center at American University, is the National Book Award-winning author of Stamped From the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America and How to Be an Antiracist. Just over a year ago, he compiled an antiracist reading list for the New York Times.
“Think of it as a stepladder to antiracism, each step addressing a different stage of the journey toward destroying racism’s insidious hold on all of us.” It covers biology, ethnicity, body, culture, behavior, color, whiteness, blackness, class, spaces, gender, and sexuality. We can’t think of a better time to dive into this curriculum.
Books to Read
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
Me and White Supremacy by Layla F. Saad
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness - Michelle Alexander
A People’s History of the United States - Howard Zinn
They Can't Kill Us All by Wesley Lowery