Educate and Act

Racism, violence, and hate have no place in our world.  Black lives do matter. And silence is not an option.

Take the opportunity to learn more and get a better understanding of the institutionalized and systematic racism in our country.  Here are a few books listed below to check out.

Books:

• Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah
• How To Be An Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
• White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo
• Biased by Dr. Jennifer Eberhardt
• Wilmington’s Lie: The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy by David Zucchino
• Raising White Kids: Bringing Up Children In A Racially Unjust America by Jennifer Harvey
• Waking Up White by Debby Irving
• Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine
• Brutal Imagination by Cornelius Eady
• The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson
• A Spectacular Secret: Lynching in American Life and Literature by Jacqueline Goldsby
• The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
• So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
• Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You by Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi
• Ghost Boys by Jewell Parker Rhodes

We can also support those organizations who are working to end social injustice. Click on their names to learn more about several organizations working hard on this front. Consider supporting them both financially and with your voice.  Many other organizations exist as I just listed a few here and not in any order.

Organizations:

• The Marshall Project
• NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
• Advancement Project
• Southern Poverty Law Center
• ACLU
• Campaign Zero

You can do many things such as sign petitions, text and call legislators, donate to these organizations, educate yourself, donate supplies, protest in person or virtually, and more.  And vote.

“The defining question is whether the discrimination is creating equity or inequity. If discrimination is creating equity, then it is antiracist. If discrimination is creating inequity, then it is racist.”
― Ibram X. Kendi, How to Be an Antiracist