INFORMATION (Articles for research and reflection)

 

 

• Talking To Students About Controversial Topics

• How To Talk To Kids About Racial Violence & Police Brutality (USA Today)

• How To Make This Moment the turning Point for Real Change (B. Obama)

• Don’t Understand the Protests? What You’re Seeing Is People Pushed To The Edge (Kareem Abdul-Jabbar; LA Times Op-Ed)

• The Science of Justice: Race, Arrests, and Police Use of Force

• Comprehensive & Urgent Policy Solutions (Campaign Zero)

• Talking About Race (National Museum of African American History & Culture)

• Tragic Death of George Floyd Reveals Continuing Problem of Police Violence

(Equal Justice Initiative)

• We Need More White Parents to Talk to Their Kids About Race (Wash. Post)

• Story Of Last Surviving Witness of Tulsa Race Riots of 1921

• “Me and White Supremacy” (book; Layla Saad)

• 75 Things White People Can Do For Racial Justice

• Daily Show’s Trevor Noah Explains Our ‘Social Contract’ (YouTube)

• 2 Fists Up - film (Spike Lee’s Lil Joints; ESPN Films)

 

 

 

ACTION (Lend support via petition and funding)

 

 

• Nationwide Bail Fund (general contributions)

• Minnesota Freedom Fund (specific to Minnesota)

• Official George Floyd Memorial Fund (Go Fund Me)

• Color of Change (Petition)

 

 

 

ENGAGEMENT (Social Justice Organizations)

 

 

• American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)

 

• Black Lives Matter

• Movement For Black Lives

• NAACP

• National Black Justice Coalition

• Campaign Zero

• Center for Policing Equity

• Black Futures Lab

• Women for Political Change

• CivilRights.org

• Showing Up For Racial Justice

• The Loveland Foundation (Rachel Cargle)