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Black Lives Matter Resources for SEIU 49 Members
Our Executive Board unanimously passed a resolution to support the Movement for Black Lives, and our Union is united in our commitment to become an anti-racist organization. Here are some resources for SEIU 49 members who want to become stronger allies and accomplices in the fight for justice and equity for Black people.
Download our SEIU 49 Members for Black Lives Matter poster and car sign here!
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106 Things White People Can Do for Racial Justice
Jenna Arnold’s resources (books and people to follow)
Rachel Ricketts’ anti-racism resources
Resources for White People to Learn and Talk About Race and Racism
Save the Tears: White Woman’s Guide by Tatiana Mac
Showing Up For Racial Justice’s educational toolkits
“Why is this happening?” — an introduction to police brutality from 100 Year Hoodie
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Books:
Coretta Scott King Book Award Winners: books for children and young adults
31 Children’s books to support conversations on race, racism and resistance
Podcasts:
Parenting Forward podcast episode ‘Five Pandemic Parenting Lessons with Cindy Wang Brandt’
Fare of the Free Child podcast
Integrated Schools podcast episode “Raising White Kids with Jennifer Harvey”
Articles:
PBS’s Teaching Your Child About Black History Month
Your Kids Aren’t Too Young to Talk About Race: Resource Roundup from Pretty Good
The Conscious Kid: follow them on Instagram and subscribe to their Patreon
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“America’s Racial Contract Is Killing Us” by Adam Serwer | Atlantic (May 8, 2020)
“My Life as an Undocumented Immigrant” by Jose Antonio Vargas | NYT Mag (June 22, 2011)
The 1619 Project (all the articles) | The New York Times Magazine
The Combahee River Collective Statement
“The Intersectionality Wars” by Jane Coaston | Vox (May 28, 2019)
“Where do I donate? Why is the uprising violent? Should I go protest?” by Courtney Martin (June 1, 2020)
“Who Gets to Be Afraid in America?” by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi | Atlantic (May 12, 2020)
“Why So Many Organizations Stay White” by Victor Ray, Harvard Business Review
RaceWorks Toolkit – Stanford University
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The Urgency of Intersectionality
Doing Race (video 1)
Doing Race | Undoing Racism through Immigration & Assimilation, Immigration & Migration, Emotion, Literature, Performance, and Systems Thinking (videos 2 – 7) to learn more about how people do race across different domains of life, and to explore recommendations and solutions for undoing racism.
Racial Perception | Doing Race and Racial Perception | Undoing Racism (videos 8 – 9) to learn more about the role racial perception plays in doing race with examples from criminal justice, education, and literature.
Learn more about how people do race. For more background, check out the concept guides on defining race and the culture cycle (including videos 10 – 11).
Minority Health Disparities – Michelle’s Story
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1619 (New York Times)
Code Switch (NPR)
Diversity and Inclusion Trainers
Intersectionality Matters! hosted by Kimberlé Crenshaw
Momentum: A Race Forward Podcast
Nice White Parents: a series from the New York Times about the 60-year relationship between white parents and local public schools.
Pod For The Cause (from The Leadership Conference on Civil & Human Rights)
Pod Save the People (Crooked Media)
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A Gift of Love by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Black Feminist Thought by Patricia Hill Collins
Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower by Dr. Brittney Cooper
Freedom Riders: 1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice by Raymond Arsenault
Heavy: An American Memoir by Kiese Laymon
How To Be An Antiracist by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
Let America Be America Again by Langston Hughes
Me and White Supremacy by Layla F. Saad
Raising Our Hands by Jenna Arnold
Redefining Realness by Janet Mock
Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde
So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century by Grace Lee Boggs
The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color by Cherríe Moraga
Uprooting Racism: How White People Can Work for Racial Justice by Paul Kivel
When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America by Ira Katznelson
Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr
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13th (Ava DuVernay) — Netflix
American Son (Kenny Leon) — Netflix
Black Power Mixtape: 1967-1975 — Available to rent
Blindspotting (Carlos López Estrada) — Hulu with Cinemax or available to rent
Clemency (Chinonye Chukwu) — Available to rent
Dear White People (Justin Simien) — Netflix
Fruitvale Station (Ryan Coogler) — Available to rent
I Am Not Your Negro (James Baldwin doc) — Available to rent or on Kanopy
If Beale Street Could Talk (Barry Jenkins) — Hulu
Just Mercy (Destin Daniel Cretton) — Available to rent for free in June in the U.S.
King In The Wilderness — HBO
See You Yesterday (Stefon Bristol) — Netflix
Selma (Ava DuVernay) — Available to rent
The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution — Available to rent
The Hate U Give (George Tillman Jr.) — Hulu with Cinemax
When They See Us (Ava DuVernay) — Netflix
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Works by Jane Elliott and her mission of One Race
Korn Ferry has released a series of videos called Race Matters
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Antiracism Center: Twitter
Audre Lorde Project: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
Black Lives Matter Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
Black Women’s Blueprint: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
Color Of Change: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
Colorlines: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
The Conscious Kid: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
Equal Justice Initiative (EJI): Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
Families Belong Together: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
The Leadership Conference on Civil & Human Rights: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
MPowerChange: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
Muslim Girl: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
NAACP: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
National Domestic Workers Alliance: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
National Urban League Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
New Orleans Workers’ Center for Racial Justice
RAICES: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ): Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
SisterSong: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
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Don’t Shoot PDX: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
Oregon Justice Resource Center: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
Rogue Action Center: Instagram | Facebook
Rural Organizing Project: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
Unite Oregon: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
