Phu Tranchi, Oakwood’s Director of Experiential Learning, has assembled the following resources for students & faculty:
Anti-Racist Resources
ANGUISH AND ACTION
We work to help leaders change their world—and the world needs changing. The killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, and the loss of far too many Black lives to list, have left our nation anguished and outraged. While now is a time for grief and anger, it is also a time for resolve. Find resources from the Obama Foundation to learn what you can do to create a more just and equitable world.
Resources for Accountability and Actions for Black Lives
An Exhaustive IMMEDIATE ACTION List
Scaffolded Anti-Racist Resources
This is a working document for scaffolding anti-racism resources. The goal is to facilitate growth for white folks to become allies, and eventually accomplices for anti-racist work. These resources have been ordered in an attempt to make them more accessible. We will continue to add resources.
SUPPORT THE MOVEMENTS
- Minnesota Freedom Fund – pays criminal bail and immigration bonds for those who can’t afford to (IG: Instagram page)
- Reclaim the Block – a coalition demanding investment in community-led safety initiatives (and divestment from policing) in Minneapolis (IG)
- Black Visions Collective – an arts collective advocating and organizing for transformative justice and liberation by and for Black Minnesotans (IG)
- Unicorn Riot – not-for-profit media organization dedicated to exposing root causes for social and environmental issues (they’re doing critical citizen journalism and 24-7 coverage) (IG)
- Northstar Health Collective – collective of health care workers & street medics that coordinate and provide health care in support of justice movements during protests and other public events
- MPD 150 – community-based initiative challenging the narrative that police exist to protect and serve (not currently asking for donations, but an org to follow) (IG)
- Black MN COVID-19 Response – a coalition of Black organizers and organizers from Minnesota addressing the harmful impacts of COVID-19
- George Floyd Memorial Fund – the GoFundMe page of George Floyd’s family, posted by his brother
- Black Lives Matter – a movement that campaigns against violence and systemic racism towards black people.
- Color of Change – We design campaigns powerful enough to end practices that unfairly hold Black people back, and champion solutions that move us all forward. Until justice is real.
- NAACP Legal Defense Fund
- Communities United Against Police Brutality
- Nationwide Bail Fund – Split a donation to national bail funds, mutual aid funds, and activist organizations
- Campaign Zero – We can live in a world where the police don’t kill people by limiting police interventions, improving community interactions, and ensuring accountability.
- Sign Petitions:
Perspectives and Counter-Narratives
Institutionalized Racism: A Syllabus
The United States has seen escalating protests over the past week, following the death of George Floyd while in custody of the Minneapolis police. Educators everywhere are asking how we can help students understand that this was not an isolated, tragic incident perpetrated by a few bad individuals, but part of a broader pattern of institutionalized racism.
Institutional racism—a term coined by Stokely Carmichael (later known as Kwame Ture) and Charles V. Hamilton in their 1967 bookBlack Power: The Politics of Liberation in America—is what connects George Floyd and Breonna Taylor with Ahmaud Arbery, Philando Castile, Eric Garner, Emmett Till, and the thousands of other people who have been killed because they were black in America.
This context seems vital for discussions both inside and outside the classroom. We’ve compiled a list of articles, published over the course of JSTOR Daily’s five years, which try to provide such context.
158 RESOURCES TO UNDERSTAND RACISM IN AMERICA
In a short essay published earlier this week, Smithsonian Secretary Lonnie G. Bunch wrote that the recent killing in Minnesota of George Floyd has forced the country to “confront the reality that, despite gains made in the past 50 years, we are still a nation riven by inequality and racial division.”
Amid escalating clashes between protesters and police, discussing race—from the inequity embedded in American institutions to the United States’ long, painful history of anti-black violence—is an essential step in sparking meaningful societal change. To support those struggling to begin these difficult conversations, the Smithsonian’s
National Museum of African American History and Culture recently launched a “
Talking About Race” portal featuring “tools and guidance” for educators, parents, caregivers and other people committed to equity.
“Talking About Race” joins a vast trove of resources from the Smithsonian Institution dedicated to understanding what Bunch describes as America’s “tortured racial past.” From
Smithsonian magazine articles on
slavery’s Trail of Tears and the disturbing
resilience of scientific racism to the National Museum of American History’s
collection of Black History Month resources for educators and a Sidedoor
podcast on the Tulsa Race Massacre, these 158 resources are designed to foster an equal society, encourage commitment to unbiased choices and promote antiracism in all aspects of life. Listings are bolded and organized by category.
Another Exhaustive List of Anti-Racist Resources
Shared by Lusanda Mayikana at Lake Forest Academy, who added some titles to a resource list compiled by
Sarah Sophie Flicker and Alyssa Klein who are affiliated with the National Network of Schools in Partnership
. It
is intended to serve as a resource to white people and parents to deepen our anti-racism work. If you haven’t engaged in anti-racism work in the past, start now. Feel free to circulate this document on social media and with your friends, family, and colleagues.
The 1619 Project
The 1619 Project is an ongoing project developed by The New York Times Magazine in 2019 with the goal of re-examining the legacy of slavery in the United States and timed for the 400th anniversary of the arrival of the first Africans in Virginia.
Say Their Names
A toolkit from the Chicago Public Schools to help foster productive conversations about race and civil disobedience
