BLM One Year Later

It’s been over a year now since the black squares took over our Instagram feeds, protests broke out onto the streets, and calls for long awaited change were heard. Allies for people of color and the Black community were called to put their thoughts and prayers into action, by educating themselves, learning more about the systemic racism that has perpetuated throughout the history of the United States, and work on dismantling systems that uphold racism and anti-Blackness. It was time for us to do the work then, and it should be ongoing and ever-developing work throughout our lives. I thought I’d share some resources that have really been eye-opening and helpful for me in practicing doing this work and some that are still on my list to get to.

To Read

• Becoming

• Between the World and Me

• How to Love a Jamaican

• Me and White Supremacy

• So You Want to Talk About Race

• Stamped From the Beginning

• The Color of Law

• The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

• The Price for Their Pound of Flesh

• White Fragility

To Listen

• Pod Save the People

• Code Switch

• Black Girls Eating

• 1619

• Seeing White

To Watch

• If Beale Street Could Talk

• 13th

• The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson

• Blackish

• Dear White People

To Search

• Anti-Racist Packet

• Black Owned Business Guide

• Indy Black Owned

Still On My List

• Books: The Warmth of Other Suns, Evicted, The Hate U Give, Half of a Yellow Sun, The Water Dancer, In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens, Sister Outsider, The New Jim Crow, How to Be an Antiracist, The Vanishing Half, Corregidora, The Girl With the Louding Voice, Conjure Women, I, Tituba, What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours

• Movies: Selma, Moonlight, Blackkklansman, Hidden Figures

• Podcasts: About Race, The Combahee River Collective Statement, The Diversity Gap, Intersectionality Matters

Cover photo from WRTV: https://twitter.com/wrtv/status/1267445552913973250