Fighting Racial Injustice Together
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Black Lives Matter at Hood.
Educate ourselves and be aware of our prejudices.
We all have biases and prejudices, but when we expand our world view to better understand the difficult and persistent problem of racism we can choose new thought patterns and actions. Below are some great places to start or to continue learning.
- Conversation Ground Rules
- Flip the Script: Race & Ethnicity in the Workplace
- Overcoming Conversation Roadblocks
- Civil Conversations & Social Conversations: The On Being Project
What else can you do?
Speak up and act against racism. Have conversations.
Whether it is on social media or face-to-face, conversations with family members or friends, it's important to have these difficult conversations, and to speak up when we hear or see racist activity even though it may be uncomfortable.
Donate.
Check out 174 Ways to Donate in Support of Black Lives and Communities of Color by New York Magazine. They’ve compiled and vetted places to donate to create a guide for anyone with the means and interest in donating as a form of taking action.
Show up.
Not everyone feels safe or wants to participate in a rally or march and that’s okay. There are other ways you can show up like becoming active in an anti-racist organization. You can join Hood’s Black Student Union or a local chapter of the NAACP, SURJ (Showing up for Racial Justice), Black Lives Matter, or others. Or, start a chapter!
Don’t be afraid to make mistakes.
Despite our best efforts, we may make a mistake to unwittingly cause anger or hurt. Don’t panic or retreat. Be willing to genuinely listen, learn, engage and apologize. Assume that making mistakes is part of the learning process of being an effective ally.
Vote and tell elected officials we care.
Email or pick up the phone to let decision makers in our communities and nation know that we care about racial justice and are paying attention to their action or inaction.
Watch, Read, Learn
- "42: The Jackie Robinson Story" (Available on Amazon Prime)
- "13th" (Available on Netflix)
- "American Son" (Available on Netflix and Amazon Prime)
- "A Ballerina's Tale" (Available on Amazon Prime)
- "Becoming: Michelle Obama" (Available on Netflix)
- "Black America Since MLK: And Still I Rise" (Available on Amazon Prime)
- "Black Stories Presents: Your Attention Please" (Available on Hulu)
- "Blindspotting" (Available on Amazon Prime)
- "Dear White People" (Available on Amazon Prime and Netflix)
- "The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson" (Available on Netflix)
- "Detroit" (Available on Amazon Prime)
- "Explained: The Racial Wealth Gap" (Available on YouTube)
- "Freedom Riders" (Available on Amazon Prime)
- "The Green Book: Guide to Freedom" (the documentary, not the feature film) (Available on Amazon Prime)
- "The Hate U Give" (Available on Amazon Prime)
- "Hidden Figures" (Available on Amazon Prime)
- "I Am Not Your Negro" (Available on Amazon Prime)
- "If Beale Street Could Talk" (Available on Amazon Prime)
- "Just Mercy" (Available on Amazon Prime)
- "King In The Wilderness" (Available on Amazon Prime)
- "Let it Fall: Los Angeles 1982-1992" (Available on Amazon Prime and Netflix)
- "The Loving Story" (Available on Amazon Prime)
- "Moonlight" (Available on Amazon Prime and Netflix)
- "Mudbound" (Available on Netflix)
- "Pushout: the Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools" (Available on Youtube)
- "Race" (Available on Amazon Prime)
- "Reconstruction: America after the Civil War" (Available on PBS online)
- "Self Made: Inspired by the Life of Madam C.J. Walker" (Available on Netflix)
- "Selma" (Available on Amazon Prime)
- "Seven Seconds" (Available on Amazon Prime)
- "Teach Us All" (Available on Netflix)
- "Time: The Kalief Browder Story" (Available on Netflix)
- "True Conviction" (Available on Amazon Prime)
- "The Uncomfortable Truth" (Available on Amazon Prime)
- "What Happened, Miss Simone?" (Available on Amazon Prime and Netflix)
- "When They See Us" (Available on Netflix)
- "Beloved" by Toni Morrison
- "Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates
- "Black Feminist Thought" by Patricia Hill Collins
- "Born a Crime: Stories form a South African Childhood" by Trevor Noah
- "The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to his White Mother" by James McBride
- "Drowned City" by Donna Jackson Brown
- "Ghost Boys" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
- "The Hate U Give" by Angie Thomas
- "How to Be an Antiracist" by Ibram X. Kendi
- "Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption" by Bryan Stevenson
- "Me and Hank: A Boy and His Hero, Twenty-Five Years Later" by Sandy Tolan
- "Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the world, and Become a Good Ancestor" by Layla F Saad
- "Monument: Poems New and Selected" by Natasha Trethwey
- "A More Beautiful and Terrible History" by Jeanne Theoharis
- "The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness" by Michelle Alexander
- "The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates" by Wes Moore
- "Road Map for Revolutionaries: Resistance, Activism, and Advocacy for All" by Elisa Camahort Page, Carolyn Gerin and Jamia Wilson
- "So You Want To Talk About Race" by Ijeoma Olou
- "Something Must Be Done about Prince Edward County: A Family, A Virginia Town, A Civil Rights Battle" by Kristen Green
- "They Can’t Kill Us All: The Story of the Struggle for Black Lives" by Wesley Lowery
- "White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism" by Robin DiAngelo, Ph.D.
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