RAPID RESPONSE RESOURCE LIST

The purpose of this list is to rapidly share critical information, articles, tips, and resources that uplift Black voices and perspectives.

This list is compiled by Athletes for Impact, powered by Revolve Impact, and incorporates information from the Courage Campaign, Rage Against The Machine Book List, Revolutionary Love Project, and a document compiled by Sarah Sophie Flicker and Alyssa Klein.

Each list is in alphabetical order for ease of search. This list will be continuously updated to be responsive to the needs of the community.

If you would like to contribute to this list, please click here to submit your entry. Entries /submissions will be vetted thoroughly.

FIVE ACTIONS TO TAKE IMMEDIATELY

1. Educate Yourself
   1. ACLU Know Your Rights Toolkit
2. Amplify Existing Campaigns
   1. Movement for Black Lives Week of Action
   2. People’s Budget
3. Sign Petitions
   1. #DefundThePolice
   2. #JusticeforBreonnaTaylor
   3. #JusticeforFloyd
   4. #JusticeforTonyMcDade
   5. Minneapolis City Council to Defund the Police
   6. Mom’s Rising Petition
   7. We Can’t Breathe
4. Call
   1. Demand Justice for George Floyd
   2. Hennepin County Attorney
      1. (612) 348-5550 or citizeninfo@hennepin.us
   3. Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey
      1. (612) 673-2100 or @mayorfrey on Twitter
5. Donate
   1. #BlackLivesMatter
   2. Athletes For Impact
   3. Ahmaud Arbery Memorial Fund
   4. Black Immigrant Collective
   5. #BlackMamasBailout
   6. Black Visions Collective
   7. George Floyd Memorial Fund
   8. Haitian Bridge Alliance
   9. Local Bail Funds
   10. Tony McDade Memorial Fund

TIPS FOR PROTESTORS

1. BlackLivesMatter Tips for Protestors – Things you need to know, tips, community bail funds, pro-bono lawyers, and first aid
2. Data Privacy – A Guide to Data Protection for Protest and Rebellion

UNDERSTANDING SYSTEMS OF OPPRESSION

1. blacklivesmatters.carrd.co/#educate
2. Blackness in America – Ta-Nehisi’s catalog with The Atlantic
3. Mass Incarceration Visualized

WELLNESS TIPS

1. Breathe with Brittany Wilson
2. Calm
3. HeadSpace
4. Inclusive Therapists
5. National Day of Healing on Juneteenth
6. Sista Afya
7. TeaAfar
8. Therapy for Black Girls
9. Ashley Wilkerson
10. Black Girl In Om
11. Dive in Well
12. Heal Haus
13. Wellness Official

REGISTER TO VOTE

1. blacklivesmatters.carrd.co/#vote
2. Vote Save America

ARTICLES TO READ

1. 26 Ways to Be in the Struggle Beyond the Streets
2. America’s Racial Contract Is Killing Us by Adam Serwer | Atlantic (May 8, 2020)
3. Anti-Racism Resource Master List
4. Article: 5 Steps Latinos Can Take to Combat Anti-Blackness
5. Article: 75 Things White People Can Do for Racial Justice
6. Article: Caught on camera, police explode in rage and violence across the US
7. Article: Forget “Looting.” Capitalism Is the Real Robbery
8. Article: How to respond to “riots never solve anything!”
9. Article: How to Safely and Ethically Film Police Misconduct
10. Article: In Defense of Looting
11. Article: Our democracy’s founding ideals were false when they were written. Black Americans have fought to make them true.
12. Article: Police Erupt in Violence Nationwide
13. Article: The answer to police violence is not ‘reform’. It’s defunding. Here’s why
14. Article: The Pandemic Is the Right Time to Defund the Police
15. Article: Violent protests are not the story. Police violence is.
16. Black trans people are disrespected in life and barely acknowledged in death – our lives matter too
17. Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement (Mentoring a New Generation of Activists
18. My Life as an Undocumented Immigrant by Jose Antonio Vargas | NYT Mag (June 22, 2011)
19. New “Riot Medicine” Street Medic Manuel
20. Teach-in: The Fire This Time
21. The 1619 Project (all the articles) | The New York Times Magazine
22. The Combahee River Collective Statement
23. The Intersectionality Wars by Jane Coaston | Vox (May 28, 2019)
24. Thread: Legislation passed across the nation that attempts to hold police accountable
25. Tips for Non-Black neighbors: Don’t Recreate Policing With Our Community Watch
26. Who Gets to Be Afraid in America? by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi | Atlantic (May 12, 2020)

VIDEOS AND MOVIES TO WATCH

1. 13th (Ava DuVernay)
2. Black Feminism & the Movement for Black Lives: Barbara Smith, Reina Gossett, Charlene Carruthers
3. Fruitvale Station
4. How Studying Privilege Systems Can Strengthen Compassion: Peggy McIntosh at TEDxTimberlaneSchools
5. Just Mercy – Watch for free here
6. I Am Not Your Negro
7. PBS’s Teaching Your Child About Black History Month
8. The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution
9. Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am
10. When They See Us

PODCASTS TO SUBSCRIBE TO

1. 1619 (New York Times)
2. About Race
3. Caught
4. Code Switch (NPR)
5. Intersectionality Matters! hosted by Kimberlé Crenshaw
6. CTZNWELL
7. Momentum: A Race Forward Podcast
8. Pod For The Cause (from The Leadership Conference on Civil & Human Rights)
9. Pod Save the People (Crooked Media)
10. Seeing White
11. There Goes The Neighborhood

BOOKS TO READ

• Assata An Autobiography by Assata Shakur
• A People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn
• Black Feminist Thought by Patricia Hill Collins
• PROUD by Ibtihaj Muhammad
• City of Inmates: Conquest, Rebellion, and the Rise of Human Caging in Los Angeles, 1771–1965 by Kelly Lytle Hernandez
• Deterring Democracy by Noam Chomsky
• Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower by Dr. Brittney Cooper
• Things That Make White People Uncomfortable by Dave Zirin and Michael Bennett
• Hearts and Hands: Creating Community In Violent Times by Louis J. Rodriguez
• How To Be An Antiracist by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi
• I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
• Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
• Reach! Finding Strength, Spirit and Personal Power by Laila Ali
• Live from Death Row by Mumia Abu-Jamal
• Me and White Supremacy by Layla F. Saad
• We Matter: Athletes and Activism by Etan Thomas
• Our Word is Our Weapon: Selected Writings by Subcomandante Marcos
• Passing It On – A Memoir by Yuki Kochiyama
• Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire
• Power at Play: Sports and the Problem of Masculinity by Michael A. Messner
• Redefining Realness by Janet Mock
• Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde
• Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson by George L. Jackson
• So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
• The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X
• Black Lives Matter at School by Jesse Hagopian and Denisha Jones
• The Black Panthers Speak by Philip S. Foner (Editor)
• The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
• The Color Purple by Alice Walker
• The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
• Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
• 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
• The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon
• 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
• Women, Race, and Class by Angela Y. Davis
• ”White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack” by Knapsack Peggy McIntosh

ADDITIONAL ANTI-RACIST RESOURCES

1. 75 Things White People Can Do for Racial Justice
2. Anti-Racism Project
3. New York Times Anti-Racist Reading List
4. Rachel Ricketts’ anti-racism resources
5. Resources for White People to Learn and Talk About Race and Racism
6. Save the Tears: White Woman’s Guide by Tatiana Mac
7. Showing Up For Racial Justice’s educational toolkits
8. Why is this happening? — an introduction to police brutality from 100 Year Hoodie
9. Zinn Education Project’s teaching materials

ORGANIZATIONS TO FOLLOW ON SOCIAL MEDIA

1. Antiracism Center: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook

2. Athletes for Impact: Twitter | Instagram

3. Audre Lorde Project: Twitter | Instagram | F acebook

4. Black Alliance for Just Immigration: Twitter | I nstagram | F acebook

5. Black Futures Lab: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook

6. Black Lives Matter: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook

7. Black Lives Matter Los Angeles: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook

8. Black Women’s Blueprint: Twitter | I nstagram | Facebook

9. BLD PWR: Twitter | Instagram

10. Color Of Change: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook

11. Colorlines: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook

12. Community Coalition: Twitter | Instagram
13. Community Justice Action Network: Twitter | Instagram

14. Dream Defenders: Twitter | I nstagram

15. The Conscious Kid: T witter | Instagram | Facebook

16. Equal Justice Initiative (EJI): Twitter | Instagram | Facebook

17. Haitian Bridge Alliance: Twitter | Instagram

18. Justice LA: Twitter | Instagram

19. The Leadership Conference on Civil & Human Rights: Twitter | I nstagram | Facebook

20. LIFE Camp, Inc.: Twitter | Instagram
21. LIVE FREE: Twitter | Instagram

22. MPowerChange: Twitter | Instagram | F acebook

23. Mom’s Rising: Twitter | Instagram

24. Movement for Black Lives: Twitter | Instagram

25. Revolve Impact: Twitter | Instagram

26. #SchoolsNotPrisons: Twitter | Instagram

27. Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ): Twitter | Instagram | Facebook

28. SisterSong: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook

29. Southern Vision Alliance: Twitter

30. Youth Justice Coalition: Twitter | Instagram

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