Black Lives Matter
Black lives should be celebrated, loved, engaged, and kept safe.
As an educational institution, we know that knowledge is power and it’s our job to amplify underrepresented voices. Our expectation is that everyone is engaging in the national conversation to understand the history of racialized violence and its impact on the daily lives of Black and brown people in our country today so that folks can actively participate in building a better world.
We’ve chosen the following four action areas in which to offer resources to our community. We need to work together to innovate and create new ideas for transformation going forward. We cannot return to normal. We need all of our minds and ideas to stitch a new garment that serves all of humanity.
Action + Empathy
Information & Resources
On-The-Ground Support
Resources For Kids
- Black Lives Matter at School, a project of Teaching for Change
- This Book is Anti-Racist: 20 lessons on how to wake up, take action, and do the work by Tiffany Jewell
- Marley Dias Gets it Done and So Can you by Marley Dias of #1000blackgirlbooks
- Not My Idea: A Book About Whiteness by Anastasia Higginbotham
- Say Her Name, Poems to empower by local children’s author Zetta Elliot
Reckon With The Truth of U.S. History
- “Bryan Stevenson on How America Can Heal” Excerpt of Bryan Stevenson interview with Ezra Klein on Vox
- The 1619 Project by Nikole Hannah Jones and NYTimes
- Born on the Water by Nikole Hannah-Jones and René Watson
- Ibram X. Kendi
- Stamped from the Beginning
- Stamped: Racism, Anti-Racism and Me, a collaboration with Jason Reynolds for young adults (Educator’s Guide)
- Seeing White (Scene on Radio podcast series)
- White Supremacy Culture by Tema Okun from www.dismantlingracism.org (The article discusses 13 specific characteristics of white supremacy culture.)
Amplify Black Voices
Leaders and Organizations We’re Learning From
Understanding the Abolition Movement
- What Does It Mean to Defund or Abolish the Police? | The Daily Social Distancing Show with Trevor Noah
- Statement from Movement for Black Lives
- Dr. Bettina Love – We Want to Do More than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom
Create Spaces For Community Healing
For People of Color
For White People
- Do the Work! by W Kamau Bell and Kate Schatz
- “White parents, talk to your children” from Medium by Madeleine Rogin
- Showing Up for Racial JusticeHow can I have a positive racial identity? I’m white! Ted Talk with Ali Michael and “What white children need to know about race”
For Everyone
- “How to resolve racially stressful situations” Tedtalk by Howard Stevenson
- Hollaback Bystander Training to stop anti-Asian/American and Xenophobic Harassment
- Racial Solidarity audit from Summer WORKbook for Educators from Tamisha Williams
- Girltrek’s Black Girl Bootcamp- recordings for Acts of Resistance and Legendary Black women series here