We try to imperfectly explain racism, why BLack Lives Matter, and our role in making it better. Sit back, breathe in deep, and open your mind. Maybe we have been sold some lies. Maybe our country isn't perfect. Maybe we can be better. Let's at least try.  

What WE can do:

Act and/or Donate:  - 

ACLU (https://www.aclu.org) 

Black Lives Matter (https://blacklivesmatter.com) 

Campaign Zero (https://www.joincampaignzero.org) 

Color of Change (https://colorofchange.org) 

NAACP (https://www.naacp.org) 

Buy: 

25 Black-Owned Businesses and Organizations (https://www.oprahmag.com/life/a32731286/black-owned-businesses/) 

77 Black-Owned Business to Support (https://nymag.com/strategist/article/black-owned-businesses-support-shop.html) 

Etsy Black-Owned Businesses (https://www.etsy.com/market/black_owned) 

Listen to a Podcast:  

Scene on Radio - Seeing White Series and Emmett and Trayvon

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White Lies

Read: - 

How To Be Anti-Racist by Ibram X. Kendi 

Privilege: A Reader edited by Michael S. Kimmel and Abby L. Ferber  

So You Want To Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo 

Tears We Cannot Stop by Michael Eric Dyson  

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander  

White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo  

Watch:  

American Son (Netflix)  

If Beale Street Could Talk (Hulu) 

Emmanuel Acho's "Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man" video (https://twitter.com/themanacho/status/1267609472589090816) 

Just Mercy (free on Amazon Prime)  

The Hate U Give (Hulu)  

The 13th (Netflix)  

When They See Us (Netflix)