06.03.2020 - By Dave Gonzales, Joanna Robinson, and Neil Miller
A message from The Storm Podcast.
Referenced Suggested Material:
The New Jim Crow - Michelle Alexander
https://newjimcrow.com/about
mass incarceration of Black Americans making them second class citizens by classifying them as felons
How to be an Anti-Racist - Ibram X. Kendi
https://www.ibramxkendi.com/how-to-be-an-antiracist-1
how to actively be an anti-racist and work towards an anti-racist society
Who Do You Serve, Who Do You Protect?
https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/952-who-do-you-serve-who-do-you-protect?discount_code=WHODOYOUSERVE
free e-book (from Haymarket publishers, by a collection of writers) about policing in Black, Brown, and Indigenous communities
Race for Profit - Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
http://www.keeangataylor.com/books.html
How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership
Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism - Bell Hooks
http://www.bellhooksinstitute.com/#/about
she's a great writer for white feminists or capitalist feminist to read
Between the World and Me - Ta-Nehisi Coates
https://ta-nehisicoates.com/books/between-the-world-and-me/
his article about a case for reparations is also great
How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America - Kiese Laymon
https://www.kieselaymon.com/how-to-slowly-kill-yourself-and-others-in-america
essayist
Citizen - Claudia Rankine
https://www.graywolfpress.org/books/citizen
poet
List of free PDFs by subject (resource from BLM site)
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0Bz011IF2Pu9TUWIxVWxybGJ1Ync
White Fragility - Robin D’Angelo
http://www.beacon.org/White-Fragility-P1631.aspx
Sister Outsider - Audre Lorde
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/198292/sister-outsider-by-audre-lorde/
Black Skin, White Masks - Franz Fanon
https://groveatlantic.com/book/black-skin-white-masks/
Policing the Black Man - Angela Davis
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/537978/policing-the-black-man-by-edited-and-with-an-introduction-by-angela-j-davis/
Films:
I Am Not Your Negro
James Baldwin documentary
Whose Streets?
Ferguson protests documentary
Just Mercy
Based on the book by civil rights attorney Bryan Stevenson, the story follows Stevenson (Michael B. Jordan) as he works to free Walter McMillian (Jamie Foxx) from death row after being wrongfully convicted of murder. Free for the month of June.