A call to action for white people and white-owned companies, myself very much included.

This is a break from regularly scheduled programming as a part of #podcastblackout.

RESOURCES MENTIONED

13th (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krfcq5pF8u8) (film by Ava DuVernay)

The New Jim Crow (https://newjimcrow.com/) (book by Michelle Alexander)

Code Switch (https://www.npr.org/podcasts/510312/codeswitch) (podcast by Gene Demby and Shereen Marisol Maraji)

How to Survive the End of the World (https://www.endoftheworldshow.org/) (podcast by Autumn Brown and adrienne maree brown)

White Fragility (https://robindiangelo.com/publications/) (book by Robin DiAngelo)

White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack (https://www.racialequitytools.org/resourcefiles/mcintosh.pdf) (reading by Peggy McIntosh)

Seeing White (https://www.sceneonradio.org/seeing-white/) (podcast series by Scene on Radio- Center for Documentary Studies)

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES

The American Nightmare (https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/06/american-nightmare/612457/) (reading by Ibram X. Kendi)

Dear White People, This is What We Want You to Do (https://insidethekandidish.wordpress.com/2020/05/30/dear-white-people-this-is-what-we-want-you-to-do/) (reading by Kandise Le Blanc)

100 Ways White People Can Make Life Less Frustrating For People of Color (https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/ne95dm/how-to-be-a-white-ally-to-people-of-color) (reading by Kesiena Boom)

How White Women Use Themselves as Instruments of Terror (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/27/opinion/racism-white-women.html) (reading by Charles M. Blow)

Anti-racism Resources for White People (http://bit.ly/ANTIRACISMRESOURCES) (list by Sarah Sophie Flicker and Alyssa Klein)

For Our Friends Desiring to Be White Allies (https://sojo.net/articles/our-white-friends-desiring-be-allies) (reading by Courtney Ariel)

Your Kids Aren’t Too Young to Talk About Race (https://www.prettygooddesign.org/blog/Blog%20Post%20Title%20One-5new4) (list by Katrina Michie)

How White Women Can Use Their Privilege to End Racism (https://zora.medium.com/finding-our-better-beckies-59b4fa9b242f) (reading by Tikia K. Hamilton, Ph.D.)

PLACES TO PUT YOUR MONEY

George Floyd Memorial Fund (https://www.gofundme.com/f/georgefloyd)

National Bailout (http://nationalbailout.org/)

Black Visions Collective (https://www.blackvisionsmn.org/)

Listen to black people first.