It is way past time. Time to listen, time to amplify the voices of black leaders, time to educate and understand. Time to do so much better.
I have listed the best resources I’ve seen below in the form of books, podcasts, films, shorts, and incredible accounts to follow.
I implore everyone reading this blog to start peeling back the layers of your implicit bias with these resources. Realize if you are white you will never understand, but you can educate yourself to know how to be a better ally and better human so that you can be a part of the change that NEEDS to happen.
Books:
Note, most of these books are out of stock with current demand, but available for audible download. If you wait to order, I highly recommend supporting a black owned bookstore.
White Fragility by Robin DeAngelo
So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
Stamped From the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi
How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
Films:
I Am Not Your Negro, Raoul Peck
Whose Streets?, Sabaah Folayan
The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross, Henry Louis Gates Jr.
The Hate U Give, George Tillman Jr.
Shorter Form Vidoes:
Systemic Racism Explained, Alex Cequea
Podcasts:
Still Processing, hosted by Jenna Wortham and Wesley Morris
1619, hosted by Nikole Hannah Jones
Code Switch, hosted by Shereen Marisol Meraji and Gene Demby
Accounts to Follow:
Rachel Rodgers also this resource by her on diversity in your online business is incredible
Courses to Take:
Race and Cultural Diversity in American Life and History
Where to Donate
Actions to Take
Text FLOYD to 55-156
Text JUSTICE to 66-8336
Text ENOUGH to 55-165
Sign Justice for Breonna Taylor
Sign Justice for Ahmaud Arbery
I am fully committed to doing the work, not just for this week, but for the rest of my life. This is an issue that took FAR too long to reach this tipping point. I really hope you will take the time to face where we are now, how we got here, and how you can do better to be an ally.
