Black Lives Matter - a podcast by Lousy Beautiful Town
from 2020-06-04T21:35:36
Star Wars can wait: we need to talk about how Black lives matter right now.
Resources discussed in the show (plus extras) are below, but above all, listen to Black people right now. NBPOC and white people need to step up with direct action and stop centering ourselves during this time.
Donate:
secure.Actblue.com: allows for splitting donations to multiple bond funds, there is a processing fee
Directly to bail funds - THEY ARE REALLY IMPORTANT
CommunityJusticeExchange.org
Chicago Community Bond Fund
Minnesota Freedom Fund
Blacklivesmatter, your local chapters
Blacklivesmatters.carrd.co - THIS HAS EVERYTHING
NAACP
People’s City Council Freedom Fund (LA)
Loveland Foundation Therapy
DONATE WITHOUT MONEY VIA YOUTUBE: bit.ly/donatewithoutcash
Read and donate to Wear Your Voice
GOOGLE:
Tulsa Massacre
Seneca Village
Fred Hampton
Dorothy Height
Assata Shakur
Ella Baker
Malcolm X - READ HIS AUTOBIOGRAPHY not the white propaganda you learn in schools
READ:
How to be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi (also wrote Stamped From the Beginning)
So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
White Fragility by Robin Diangelo (White Author)
Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower by Brittney Coooper
Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
Between the World and Me by Ta-nehisi Coates
The Autobiography of Malcolm X as told by Alex Haley
Motherhood so White by Nefertiti Austin
Aint I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism by bell hooks
The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
Are Prisons Obsolete? By Angela Davis
Medical Apartheid by Harriet A. Washington
The Body is Not an Apology By Sonya Renee Taylor
“Why are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?”: A Psychologist Explains the Development of Racial Identity by Beverly Daniel Tatum
Dread Nation by Justina Ireland
We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
We’re Going to Need More Wine by Gabrielle Union
Assata: An Autobiography by Assata Shakur
The End of Policing by Alex S. Vitale
You Can’t Touch My Hair: And Other Things I Still Have to Explain by Phoebe Robinson
Critical Race Theory by Kimberle Crenshaw
WATCH:
13th
Selma
Just Mercy
The Hate U Give
I Am Not Your Negro
#blacklivesmatter
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