Black Lives Matter!

Black Lives Matter! They always have and they always will. It is about time that we, as human beings, start treating each other as such. We should not let the color of our skin or the countries that we are from, determine how we treat one another. We should always choose love and kindness above everything. I have taken this past week to educate myself and research ways I can help and become a better ally in the continuous fight against racism. This is an ongoing issue that the black community faces on a daily basis and therefore, help and awareness should be forever.

I hope that change is near and that people become kinder to one another in a world that is full of hate. I hope that we all come together in support of our black community because BLACK LIVES MATTER!

BOOKS:

- The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas

- Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

- When They Call You a Terrorist A Black Lives Matter Memoir Patrisse Khan-Cullors, asha bandele; foreword by Angela Davis

- White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk about Racism by Robin DiAngelo, Michael Eric Dyson

- How to Kill a City: Gentrification, Inequality, and the Fight for the Neighborhood by P E Moskowitz

- How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi

- Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?: And Other Conversations about Race by Beverly Daniel Tatum

- So You Want to Talk about Race - by Ijeoma Oluo

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

- Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi

- The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

PLACES TO DONATE:

- Reclaim the Block

- NAACP

- Black Visions Collective

- Minnesota Freedom Fund

- George Floyd Memorial Fund

- I Run With Maud

- Justice for Breonna Taylor

- National Bail Out

- Equal Justice Initiative

- the body: a home for love (this is a nonprofit organization that helps black sexual assault survivors heal from trauma)

- If donating is not an option for you, watch this video on YouTube (make sure you don't skip the ads as the ad revenue will be donated 100%.)

MOVIES / DOCUMENTARIES / SHOWS TO WATCH:

- Dear White People (Netflix)

- American Son (Netflix)

- The Last Black Man in San Francisco (Rent on YouTube, Google Play, Amazon Prime)

- 16 Shots (Hulu, Showtime)

- 13th (Netflix)

- When They See Us (Netflix)

- Time: The Kalief Browder Story (Netflix)

- LA 92 (Netflix or rent on YouTube, Google Play, iTunes, Amazon Prime)

- Selma (Google Play, Amazon Prime, YouTube)

These are just a few of the many resources I found. I'm open to learning and being a better ally. If you have any suggestions and recommendations, feel free to include them in the comments or email me.